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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	86
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	64
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	61
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	45
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	45
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	42
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	33
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	32
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict	32
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	29
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	28
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	24
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	23
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	18
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	15
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	14
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	13
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	12
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	12
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	12
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	12
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship	12
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	12
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	11
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	11

Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	10
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	10
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	9
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	9
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections	9
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	8
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
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	7
Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?	7
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention	6
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	6
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	6
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration	6