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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund	37
The when, what, where and why of European Union sanctions	27
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction	26
Digital sovereignty and taking back control: from regulatory capitalism to regulatory mercantilism in EU cybersecurity	24
The EU’s hegemonic imaginaries: from European strategic autonomy in defence to technological sovereignty	19
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	17
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	16
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	16
Introduction: shades of contestation and politicisation of CFSP	16
The post-Lisbon high representatives: an introduction	15
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities	15
Border security and the digitalisation of sovereignty: insights from EU borderwork	14
Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures:an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership	14
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	12
External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: a time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states	11
A revolution in military learning? Cross-functional teams and knowledge transformation by lessons-learned processes	11
Leaderisation in foreign policy: performing the role of EU High Representative	11
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	11
Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region	11
Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation	10
Looking towards the East: the High Representative’s role in EU foreign policy on Kosovo and Ukraine	10
What is at stake in the information sphere? Anxieties about malign information influence among ordinary Swedes	9
Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia	9
The hybrid role of the High Representative in the security and defence field: more in 10 months than in the 10 years?	9
“And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological security, and intergenerational anxiety in the Irish border region	8

The High Representative and directoires in European foreign policy: the case of the nuclear negotiations with Iran	8
OSCE mediation strategies in Eastern Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh: a comparative analysis	8
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	8
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	7
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	7
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	7
Between human rights and security concerns: politicisation of EU-Turkey and EU-Libya agreements on migration in national parliaments	7
Who says what: members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates	7
Conceptualising the quiet revolution: the post-Fordist revolution in western military logistics	6
From “partnership” to “principled pragmatism”: tracing the discursive practices of the High Representatives in the EU’s relations with the Southern Mediterranean	6
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	6
From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland’s road to a NATO application	6
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	6
Party politics and military deployments: explaining political consensus on Belgian military intervention	6
Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum	6
Reclaiming a good ally status: Baltic coping strategies in the America First world	6
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	5
Politics and economy of resilience: EU resilience-building in Palestine and Jordan and its disciplinary governance	5
NATO’s 360-degree approach to security: alliance cohesion and adaptation after the Crimean crisis	5
Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union	5
Foreign policy decision-making in operational overlap: the UK’s policing assistance in Afghanistan through the EU and NATO	5
Technology transfer and defence sector dynamics: the case of the Netherlands	5
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Shifting articulations of space and security: boundary work in European space policy making	5
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	5
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	4
Positioning member states in EU-NATO security cooperation: towards a typology	4
Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations	4
The risks of NATO’s maladaptation	4
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	4
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	4
NATO, energy security and institutional change	4
How EU accession has affected military service in post-conflict Cyprus	3
Prevention of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation in Sweden: a sociological institutional perspective on development and change	3
Why the implementation of multilateral sanctions does (not) work: lessons learned from the Czech Republic	3
Feeble rules: one dual-use sanctions regime, multiple ways of implementation and application?	3
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	3
Human security of the Sámi in the new Sámi Arctic Strategy	3
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	3
United to rescue? Humanitarian role conceptions and NGO–NGO interactions in the Mediterranean Sea	3
Security cooperation in and with Asia: towards a pragmatic turn in the EU’s security policy?	3
“Training for peace” – a universal practise? How micro processes are impacting the likelihood of an EU–India cooperation in peacekeeping	3
EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!	2
Unpacking the Trump administration’s grand strategy in Europe: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty	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
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	2
The dog that did not bark: the EU and the clash between sovereignty and justice in the International Criminal Court	2
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	2
Militarising gender: a (contrapuntal) reading of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) applications in EU-Tunisian security assemblages	2

A “hybrid offensive” in the Balkans? Russia and the EU-led Kosovo-Serb negotiations	2
Orchestrating peace in South Sudan: exploring the effectiveness of the European Union’s mediation support	2
The party politics of the EU’s relations with the USA: evidence from the European Parliament	2
Politicisation of the European Foreign, security, and defence cooperation: the case of the EU’s Russian sanctions	2
Refugees, Energiewende and NATO deterrence: limits of German leadership in Central Europe	2