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 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
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	21
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict	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
Governing knowledge, shaping Europe: research security in the EU’s geopolitical turn	13
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	13
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	12
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
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
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
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	10
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	9
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
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
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
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
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	6
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