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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	39
The EU civil protection mechanism in the 2024 Spanish floods: Europeanisation and multi-level governance in practice	37
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	34
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	25
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	22
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict	21
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	21
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	20
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	18
Expertise hubs and the credibility challenge for open-source intelligence: insights from usage patterns of a web-controlled radio receiver and related Twitter traffic in the Ukraine war	17
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	15
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	14
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	13
Governing knowledge, shaping Europe: research security in the EU’s geopolitical turn	13
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	12
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	11
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship	11
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	11
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	11
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	11
Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers	11
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	10
Perks and perils of “geostrategic inbetweenness” : the EU–Russia great power competition in the “(un)common neighbourhood” and foreign policy choices of states caught in-bet	10
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	9
Guardians of trust: foreign election interference and the institutional logics of democratic resilience among Swedish county governors	8

Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	8
In whose name? Construction of the EUropean agency in the European Union’s institutional discourse on the war in Ukraine	8
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	8
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	8
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	8
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	7
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections	7
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	7
Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?	7
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	6
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration	6
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	6
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention	5
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	5
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	5
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	5
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	5
Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia	5
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries	5
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	5
Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment	5
European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security?	5
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”	4
Instrumentalisation of fear and securitisation of “Eastern Borders Route”: the case of Poland-Belarus “border crisis”	4
Ordering EU internal security: Information sharing, code tables, and epistemic stabilisation	4
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	4
Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence	4
The European Union’s missing voice: member states’ forum shopping in military AI governance	4
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries	4
Metrics of morality: reconciling technocratic governance and affective authority in peacekeeping training	4
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective	4
A boundary-based framework for analysing cross-sector cooperation in societal security – Svalbard case studies	4
Make room for me! A study of how climate change and environment landed on Spanish national security	4
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	3
The European Union's use of contractors in security and defence: blazing its own path of institutional change?	3
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022	3
“You forgot Poland?” Polish involvement in the Iraq war and its aftermath through a postcolonial lens	3
Cooperating tocontrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors	3
Transactional hedging versus value-based hedging: how small frontline states balance between European integration and Russian influence	3
The transnationalisation of military leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and EURO-Atlantic integration	3
Non-western influence operations in North Macedonia: a reason for concern or push towards the west?	3
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?	3
Influence of the Russia–Ukraine war on security discourse of Baltic presidents	3
Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
“My trip to Europe is about America rallying the world’s democracies” and the elephant in NATO’s room	2
Whose “drone revolution”? Expert-media gaps in perceptions of drone warfare	2
The war that redefined cyber war: Russia, Ukraine and the gap between theory and practice	2
The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression	2
The implementation of research security policies in Germany: exploring policy narratives across governance levels	2

The EU’s fragmented defence governance: different rationales, different logics and different actors	2
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	2
Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises	2
Navigating the uncertainty of the modern environment: multi-domain operations for the defence of small states	2
Wartime solidarity and sense of belonging to Europe: public support for military aid to NATO allies under attack	2
Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism	2
Virtual reality as strategic communication: cultural defence in wartime Ukraine	2
Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity	2
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	2
Contested statehood, complex sovereignty and the European Union's role in Kosovo	2
Digital sovereignty and the means to European digital security: identification of the goals related to digital sovereignty from legal texts published by the European Union	2