OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Security is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	105
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	76
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	70
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	60
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict	57
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	45
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	36
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	36
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	33
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	33
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	32
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	29
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	28
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	20
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	20
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship	19
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	18
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	16
Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers	16
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	15
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	15
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	14
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	13
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	12
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	11

Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	11
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	10
Guardians of trust: foreign election interference and the institutional logics of democratic resilience among Swedish county governors	10
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	9
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections	9
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	9
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	8
Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?	8
In whose name? Construction of the EUropean agency in the European Union’s institutional discourse on the war in Ukraine	8
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	8
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	7
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	7
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration	7
Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment	7
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	7