OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Defence and Peace Economics is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway	28
Drivers and Impact of European Defence Market Integration: A Literature Meta-Synthesis with Economic Focus	25
The Economic Benefits of North Warning System Modernization	21
The Spectrum of Strategic Autonomy in EU Defence Supply Chains	16
Strategic Interaction of Governments and Terrorist Groups in Times of Economic Hardship	15
Demand for Military Expenditures and Security Alignment Choices in the Indo-Pacific	15
Modest and balanced: the US defense budget buildup during the first Trump administration, 2017–2020	12
Military Spending Composition and Economic Growth	11
Natural resource dependence and war nexus: new insights	11
Geopolitical Risk and Stock-Bond Interplay: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Conventional Assets in the GCC	11
Long-term Consequences of Civil War in Tajikistan: The Gendered Impact on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	10
Class Warfare: Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950	10
The Evolution Towards the Partial Strategic Autonomy of Sweden’s Essential Security Interests	10
The Formation of Terrorist Groups: An Empirical Analysis	8
Post Service Labor Market Performance of Immigrant Veterans	8
The Dynamics of the Global Arms Trade Network: States’ Stability and Instability	8
Should I Pay, Or Should I Quash? The Role of Governments’ Ideology in Ransom Payment	8
The Determinants of Defense Spending in the Gulf Region	7
Country Survey: Canadian Military Expenditure and Defence Policy	7
The Political Economy of Military Aircraft, the Case of Europe	7
Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike	7
Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s	7
Do Political Instability and Military Expenditure Undermine Economic Growth in Egypt? Evidence from the ARDL Approach	7
Corruption, ICT and Military Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Fertile ground for conflict: evidence revisited using spatial first differences	7

Market Structures, Competition and Innovation: Grounds for an Alternative Defence Industrial Policy	7
Scientometric Analysis of the Relationship between Expenditure on Defence and Economic Growth: Current Situation and Future Perspectives	6
Technological Emergence and Military Technology Innovation	6
Extractive Politics, Redistribution, and War: On the Rationality of Kleptocratic Mismanagement	5
Reassessing the military spending–economic growth nexus in the ‘shadows’: selected Balkan countries, 1990–2022	5
Unemployment and Military Labour Supply: A Study on Belgian Data for the Period 2005-2020	5
Constraining Compliance? Reconsidering the Effect of Veto Players on Sanctions Success	5
Civil War Outcomes and Egalitarian Democracy in Post-Civil War States: A Cross-National Analysis, 1946-2018	5
Verification of Peace Accords and Military Expenditures in Post-Conflict Societies	5
Within Ethnic Population Inequality and within Self-Determination Movement Violence	5
Competition from Within: Ethnicity, Power, and Militant Group Rivalry	4
The Effect of the US Macroeconomic Indicators on the International Geopolitical Risk	4
European Defence: No Zeitenwende Yet	4
Concentration and Innovation in the Defence Industry: A Stochastic Game	4
The Impact of Military Expenditures on Economic Growth: A New Instrumental Variables Approach	4
Has the iron fist against criminal gangs really worked in El Salvador?	4
Conflict with Third-Party Intervention and Revenge: A Game-Theoretic Exploration	4
Military spending and the fear hypothesis	4
Arms Racing, Military Build-Ups and Dispute Intensity: Evidence from the Greek-Turkish Rivalry, 1985-2020	4
Developments in Military Expenditure and the Effects of the War in Ukraine	3
Armed Conflict and Its Repercussions on Population Growth: The Turkish Case	3
Arms Spending and War Casualties: Understanding the Strategic Trade-Offs in Warfare	3
Cybersecurity For Defense Economists	3
Tourism demand recovery following terrorism ceasefire: the case of the basque country	3
A theoretical treatment of foreign fighters and terrorism	3
Long-Run Equilibrium Between Military Expenditure and GDP with Non-Linear Structural Breaks in NATO Member States	3
The economic costs and benefits of the European Future Combat Air System	3
Courtship, Honeymoon, and Stabilisation? Military Expenditures of New NATO Member Countries Before and After the 1999–2020 Enlargements	3
The Ascent of Geopolitics: Scientometric Analysis and Ramifications of Geopolitical Risk	3
Notes on Optimal Reintegration Contracts	3
Equilibrium in an asymmetric war of attrition with a fight option	3