OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Security 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund	41
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction	35
Digital sovereignty and taking back control: from regulatory capitalism to regulatory mercantilism in EU cybersecurity	32
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	25
Introduction: shades of contestation and politicisation of CFSP	24
The EU’s hegemonic imaginaries: from European strategic autonomy in defence to technological sovereignty	23
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	22
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	22
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	21
Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation	20
Border security and the digitalisation of sovereignty: insights from EU borderwork	18
External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: a time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states	15
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities	15
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	14
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	13
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	13
“And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological security, and intergenerational anxiety in the Irish border region	13
Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region	12
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	12
From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland’s road to a NATO application	11
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	11
Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum	10
Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia	9
Between human rights and security concerns: politicisation of EU-Turkey and EU-Libya agreements on migration in national parliaments	8
United to rescue? Humanitarian role conceptions and NGO–NGO interactions in the Mediterranean Sea	8

Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	8
OSCE mediation strategies in Eastern Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh: a comparative analysis	8
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	8
Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union	8
Shifting articulations of space and security: boundary work in European space policy making	8
Who says what: members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates	8
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	7
Reclaiming a good ally status: Baltic coping strategies in the America First world	7
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	6
Technology transfer and defence sector dynamics: the case of the Netherlands	6
Party politics and military deployments: explaining political consensus on Belgian military intervention	6
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	6
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	6
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	5
Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations	5
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	5
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	4
Positioning member states in EU-NATO security cooperation: towards a typology	4
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	4
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	4
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	4
How EU accession has affected military service in post-conflict Cyprus	3
Feeble rules: one dual-use sanctions regime, multiple ways of implementation and application?	3
Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations	3
Balancing between Russia and the West: the hard security choice of Armenia	3
A “hybrid offensive” in the Balkans? Russia and the EU-led Kosovo-Serb negotiations	3
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	3
Whose (in)security? Gender, race and coloniality in European security policies: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Regional security cooperation revisited: the Western Balkans as the future security provider	3
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	3
Unpacking the Trump administration’s grand strategy in Europe: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty	3
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	3
Prevention of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation in Sweden: a sociological institutional perspective on development and change	3
Spending on personnel or equipment: panel analysis of military expenditures in the NATO countries 2005–2019	2
The dog that did not bark: the EU and the clash between sovereignty and justice in the International Criminal Court	2
The party politics of the EU’s relations with the USA: evidence from the European Parliament	2
The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC)	2
Gendered insecurities: EU practices in countering violent extremism in Niger	2
Politicising European counter-terrorism: the role of NGOs	2
Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence	2
Interstitial emergence of national defence entrepreneurial firms and re-configuration of the state as a defence actor: the case of Sweden’s Vesper Group	2
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	2
Contested statehood, complex sovereignty and the European Union's role in Kosovo	2
Politicisation of the European Foreign, security, and defence cooperation: the case of the EU’s Russian sanctions	2
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	2
Militarising gender: a (contrapuntal) reading of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) applications in EU-Tunisian security assemblages	2
The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy: a post-mortem investigation of the Arab uprisings and the Ukraine–Russia crisis of 2013/14	2
Affective politics of migration control in Turkey: a postcolonial approach	2
Improved conceptualising of hybrid interference below the threshold of armed conflict	2
Free speech versus defence of the nation? The media as sources of national insecurity in Ukraine	2

Under the radar: Ireland, maritime security capacity, and the governance of subsea infrastructure	2
From the “laboratory” to the “arena”: the EU’s quest for maturity and the instrumentalisation of conflict in Africa	2