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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

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	34
Digital sovereignty and taking back control: from regulatory capitalism to regulatory mercantilism in EU cybersecurity	31
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	25
The EU’s hegemonic imaginaries: from European strategic autonomy in defence to technological sovereignty	22
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	21
Introduction: shades of contestation and politicisation of CFSP	21
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	20
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	17
Border security and the digitalisation of sovereignty: insights from EU borderwork	17
Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation	16
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities	15
External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: a time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states	15
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	13
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	13
“And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological security, and intergenerational anxiety in the Irish border region	12
Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region	12
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	12
From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland’s road to a NATO application	11
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	10
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
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	9
OSCE mediation strategies in Eastern Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh: a comparative analysis	8
Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union	8

United to rescue? Humanitarian role conceptions and NGO–NGO interactions in the Mediterranean Sea	8
Between human rights and security concerns: politicisation of EU-Turkey and EU-Libya agreements on migration in national parliaments	8
Who says what: members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates	8
Shifting articulations of space and security: boundary work in European space policy making	7
Reclaiming a good ally status: Baltic coping strategies in the America First world	7
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	7
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	7
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	7
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	6
Politics and economy of resilience: EU resilience-building in Palestine and Jordan and its disciplinary governance	6
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
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations	5
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	5
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	5
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	4
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	4
EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!	4
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	4
Positioning member states in EU-NATO security cooperation: towards a typology	4
A “hybrid offensive” in the Balkans? Russia and the EU-led Kosovo-Serb negotiations	3
Unpacking the Trump administration’s grand strategy in Europe: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty	3
Prevention of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation in Sweden: a sociological institutional perspective on development and change	3
How EU accession has affected military service in post-conflict Cyprus	3
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	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
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
Politicising European counter-terrorism: the role of NGOs	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
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
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
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	2
Under the radar: Ireland, maritime security capacity, and the governance of subsea infrastructure	2
Whose (in)security? Gender, race and coloniality in European security policies: Introduction to the Special Issue	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
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