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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund	38
The when, what, where and why of European Union sanctions	33
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction	29
Digital sovereignty and taking back control: from regulatory capitalism to regulatory mercantilism in EU cybersecurity	29
The EU’s hegemonic imaginaries: from European strategic autonomy in defence to technological sovereignty	22
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	21
Introduction: shades of contestation and politicisation of CFSP	21
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	20
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	18
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	17
Border security and the digitalisation of sovereignty: insights from EU borderwork	16
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities	15
The post-Lisbon high representatives: an introduction	15
Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation	14
Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures:an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership	14
External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: a time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states	13
Leaderisation in foreign policy: performing the role of EU High Representative	12
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	12
Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region	11
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	11
A revolution in military learning? Cross-functional teams and knowledge transformation by lessons-learned processes	11
“And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological security, and intergenerational anxiety in the Irish border region	10
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	10
Looking towards the East: the High Representative’s role in EU foreign policy on Kosovo and Ukraine	10
The hybrid role of the High Representative in the security and defence field: more in 10 months than in the 10 years?	9

Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum	9
Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia	9
The High Representative and directoires in European foreign policy: the case of the nuclear negotiations with Iran	9
Between human rights and security concerns: politicisation of EU-Turkey and EU-Libya agreements on migration in national parliaments	8
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
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	8
From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland’s road to a NATO application	8
From “partnership” to “principled pragmatism”: tracing the discursive practices of the High Representatives in the EU’s relations with the Southern Mediterranean	8
Who says what: members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates	8
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	7
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	7
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
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	6
NATO’s 360-degree approach to security: alliance cohesion and adaptation after the Crimean crisis	6
Conceptualising the quiet revolution: the post-Fordist revolution in western military logistics	6
United to rescue? Humanitarian role conceptions and NGO–NGO interactions in the Mediterranean Sea	6
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	6
Party politics and military deployments: explaining political consensus on Belgian military intervention	6
Politics and economy of resilience: EU resilience-building in Palestine and Jordan and its disciplinary governance	6
Foreign policy decision-making in operational overlap: the UK’s policing assistance in Afghanistan through the EU and NATO	5
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	5
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Technology transfer and defence sector dynamics: the case of the Netherlands	5
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	4
Positioning member states in EU-NATO security cooperation: towards a typology	4
The risks of NATO’s maladaptation	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
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	4
Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations	4
Prevention of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation in Sweden: a sociological institutional perspective on development and change	3
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	3
EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!	3
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	3
Balancing between Russia and the West: the hard security choice of Armenia	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
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	3
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
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
A “hybrid offensive” in the Balkans? Russia and the EU-led Kosovo-Serb negotiations	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
Politicising European counter-terrorism: the role of NGOs	2
Affective politics of migration control in Turkey: a postcolonial approach	2
The dog that did not bark: the EU and the clash between sovereignty and justice in the International Criminal Court	2
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	2

Gendered insecurities: EU practices in countering violent extremism in Niger	2
Regional security cooperation revisited: the Western Balkans as the future security provider	2
Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence	2
Refugees, Energiewende and NATO deterrence: limits of German leadership in Central Europe	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
Whose (in)security? Gender, race and coloniality in European security policies: Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Militarising gender: a (contrapuntal) reading of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) applications in EU-Tunisian security assemblages	2