OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Security is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	68
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	54
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	47
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	38
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	38
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	38
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	32
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	26
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	26
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	25
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	21
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	20
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	14
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	14
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	12
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	11
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	11
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	10
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	10
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	9
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	9
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	9
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	9
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	9
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	8

Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	8
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	8
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	7
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	7
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	7
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	7
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	7
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	7
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	6
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries	6
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	6
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention	6
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway	6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	6
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	6