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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund	41
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction	35
Digital sovereignty and taking back control: from regulatory capitalism to regulatory mercantilism in EU cybersecurity	32
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	25
Introduction: shades of contestation and politicisation of CFSP	24
The EU’s hegemonic imaginaries: from European strategic autonomy in defence to technological sovereignty	23
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	22
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	22
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	21
Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation	20
Border security and the digitalisation of sovereignty: insights from EU borderwork	18
External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: a time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states	15
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities	15
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	14
“And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological security, and intergenerational anxiety in the Irish border region	13
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	13
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	13
Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region	12
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	12
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	11
From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland’s road to a NATO application	11
Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum	10
Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia	9
Between human rights and security concerns: politicisation of EU-Turkey and EU-Libya agreements on migration in national parliaments	8
United to rescue? Humanitarian role conceptions and NGO–NGO interactions in the Mediterranean Sea	8

Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	8
OSCE mediation strategies in Eastern Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh: a comparative analysis	8
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	8
Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union	8
Shifting articulations of space and security: boundary work in European space policy making	8
Who says what: members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates	8
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	7
Reclaiming a good ally status: Baltic coping strategies in the America First world	7
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	6
Technology transfer and defence sector dynamics: the case of the Netherlands	6
Party politics and military deployments: explaining political consensus on Belgian military intervention	6
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	6
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	6