OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Studies is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	63
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	26
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	14
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting	12
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	11
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	11
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	11
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	10
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	9
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	9
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	9
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	9
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	7
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	6
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	6
Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	5

Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	4
Credible Surrogates: Outsourcing US Foreign Policy Appeals	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	4
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	4
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	3
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	3
Explaining Command Style	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	3