OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	29
The Effect of Aerial Bombardment on Insurgent Civilian Victimization	12
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	12
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	9
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	9
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	9
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	8
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	8
The Bomb as God: A Metaphor that Impedes Nuclear Disarmament	8
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	8
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	7
Rebels against Mines? Legitimacy and Restraint on Landmine Use in the Philippines	7
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	7
Accommodative Signaling in Cyberspace and the Role of Risk	7
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	5
Escaping Paralysis: Strategies for Countering Asymmetric Nuclear Escalation	5
Social Origins of Terrorism: An Exchange – The Author Replies	5
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	5
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	5
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	4
The Nuclear Taboo and the Inevitability of Uncertainty	4
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	4
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	4
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	4

Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	3
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	3
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	3
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	3
The Disadvantage of Nuclear Superiority	3
To Buy a War but Sell the Peace? Mercenaries and Post-Civil War Stability	3
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	2
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	2
Waltz with Me: Structural Realism and Structural Racism in International Politics	2
Revolutionary Governments, Recklessness, and War: The Case of the Second Karabakh War	2
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	2
Evolution under Anarchy	2
Delineating Progressive Grand Strategies	2
Brazil’s Foreign Policy and Security under Lula and Bolsonaro: Hierarchy, Racialization, and Diplomacy	2
Algorithmic Aversion? Experimental Evidence on the Elasticity of Public Attitudes to “Killer Robots”	2
The Non-Trivial Accomplishments of Counterterrorists	2
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	2
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	2
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	2
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	2