OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Security Dialogue is 2. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Saving the souls of white folk: Humanitarianism as white supremacy	30
Navigating vulnerabilities and masculinities: How gendered contexts shape the agency of male sexual violence survivors	19
Governing border security infrastructures: Maintaining large-scale information systems	17
Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks	15
Automating security infrastructures: Practices, imaginaries, politics	14
Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response	13
Policing the (migrant) crisis: Stuart Hall and the defence of whiteness	12
Racial militarism and civilizational anxiety at the imperial encounter: From metropole to the postcolonial state	11
The connections between crisis and war preparedness in Sweden	10
Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party	10
A call to arms: Hero–villain narratives in US security discourse	10
Threats, deportability and aid: The politics of refugee rentier states and regional stability	10
Foucault and the birth of psychopolitics: Towards a genealogy of crisis governance	9
The making of racialized subjects: Practices, history, struggles	9
The war against vague threats: The redefinitions of imminent threat and anticipatory use of force	9
The technological obstructions of asylum: Asylum seekers as forced techno-users and governing through disorientation	9
Policing with the drone: Towards an aerial geopolitics of security	9
Bringing the world back in: Revolutions and relations before and after the quantum event	9
Beyond ambivalence: Locating the whiteness of security	8
Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan	8
Rashomon in the Sahel: Conflict dynamics of security regionalism	8
The militarization of digital surveillance in post-coup Zimbabwe: ‘Just don’t tell them what we do’	7
Resettling Afghan and Iraqi interpreters employed by Western armies: The Contradictions of the Migration–Security Nexus	7
Security, sexuality, and the Gay Clown Putin meme: Queer theory and international responses to Russian political homophobia	7
Making war safe for capitalism: The World Bank and its evolving interventions in conflict	7

Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability	7
Assembling Israeli drone warfare: Loitering surveillance and operational sustainability	6
The ‘linguistic ceasefire’: Negotiating in an age of proscription	6
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure	6
Unmasking the racism of orthodox international relations/international political economy theory	6
Decolonizing the Responsibility to Protect: On pervasive Eurocentrism, Southern agency and struggles over universals	6
The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty	6
Making amends: Towards an antiracist critical security studies and international relations	6
Agonistic security: Transcending (de/re)constructive divides in critical security studies	6
Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention	6
The contingencies of whiteness: Gendered/racialized global dynamics of security narratives	6
Securitization of the unemployed and counter-conductive resistance in Tunisia	5
Memoirs of women-in-conflict: Ugandan ex-combatants and the production of knowledge on security and peacebuilding	5
Global silences as privilege: The international community’s white silence on far-right terrorism	5
The impact of (counter-)terrorism on public (in)security in Nigeria: A vernacular analysis	5
Time will tell: Defining violence in terrorism court cases	4
Trauma to self and other: Reflections on field research and conflict	4
The fabric of agency: Navigating human potentialities through introspection	4
Race and racism in critical security studies	4
Indigenous environmental perspectives: Challenging the oceanic security state	4
Delivering life, delivering death: Reaper drones, hysteria and maternity	4
Insecurity and the invisible: The challenge of spiritual (in)security	4
Motioning the politics of security: The primacy of movement and the subject of security	4
Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation	4
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia	4
Archiving as embodied research and security practice	3
The triangle of security governance: Sovereignty, discipline and the ‘government of things’ in Olympic Rio de Janeiro	3
What makes violence martial? Adopt A Sniper and normative imaginaries of violence in the contemporary United States	3
Race, space, and ‘terror’: Notes from East Africa	3
Race, transnational militarism, and neocoloniality: The politics of the THAAD deployment in South Korea	3
Racism! What do you mean? From Howell and Richter-Montpetit’s underestimation of the problem, towards situating security through struggle	3
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’	3
‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security	3
The banalization of race in international security studies: From absolution to abolition	3
Security technology, urban prototyping, and the politics of failure	3
Qualifying deportation: How police translation of ‘dangerous foreign criminals’ led to expansive deportation practices in Spain	3
Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance	3
Assessing threatening uncertainties: Counterterrorism and everyday practices of preemptive policing in Ghana	3
Intelligence and radicalization in French prisons: Sociological analysis bottom-up	3
Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Technical ecstasy: Network-centric warfare redux	2
Cybersecurity, race, and the politics of truth	2
Dreaming biometrics in Niger: The security techniques of migration control in West Africa	2
Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’	2
Agents, structures, and the moral basis of deportability	2
Networked security in the colonial present: Mapping infrastructures of digital surveillance and control in São Paulo	2
Assembling prevention: Technology, expertise and control in postwar Guatemala	2
Framing collective violence as war time: Temporality, circulation, resistance	2
Critical privilege studies: Making visible the reproduction of racism in the everyday and international relations	2
Expecting the exceptional in the everyday: Policing global transportation hubs	2

Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments	2
Modular sovereignty and infrastructural power: The elusive materiality of international statebuilding	2
Conflicting visibilities: Police and politics among border migrants in Chile	2
Negotiating detention: The radical pragmatism of prison-based resistance in protracted conflicts	2
A call for abolition: The disavowal and displacement of race in critical security studies	2