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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	33
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	22
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	15
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	14
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	13
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	12
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	11
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	10
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	9
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
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
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	7
Oil and War: An Exchange	7
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	6
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	5
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	5
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	5
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	5

Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	5
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	5
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	4
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	4
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	4
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	3
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
The Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3