OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Defence and Peace Economics is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Economic Benefits of North Warning System Modernization	35
Geopolitical risk spillovers and interconnectedness: evidence from the MENA region and key global powers	31
Drivers and Impact of European Defence Market Integration: A Literature Meta-Synthesis with Economic Focus	22
Determinants of the global arms imports: a revisit	21
Natural resource dependence and war nexus: new insights	18
Modeling economic sanctions as a stochastic game: insights from Russia, Libya, and Iran	18
Modest and balanced: the US defense budget buildup during the first Trump administration, 2017–2020	17
Geopolitical Risk and Stock-Bond Interplay: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Conventional Assets in the GCC	15
Post Service Labor Market Performance of Immigrant Veterans	14
The Spectrum of Strategic Autonomy in EU Defence Supply Chains	14
Should I Pay, Or Should I Quash? The Role of Governments’ Ideology in Ransom Payment	14
After the war begins: Ukraine’s shock and Spain’s accelerated continuity in defence procurement	12
Long-term Consequences of Civil War in Tajikistan: The Gendered Impact on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	12
Lights are flashing red! Unravelling the persistent effect of terrorism on Africa’s economic activity	12
The Dynamics of the Global Arms Trade Network: States’ Stability and Instability	11
Market Structures, Competition and Innovation: Grounds for an Alternative Defence Industrial Policy	10
Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike	10
Macroeconomic consequences of the war in Ukraine on Central and Eastern European economies: a SVAR analysis	10
The impact of armed conflicts and forced migration on labour markets: systematic literature review and future research agenda	10
Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s	10
The Political Economy of Military Aircraft, the Case of Europe	10
Fertile ground for conflict: evidence revisited using spatial first differences	10
Reassessing the military spending–economic growth nexus in the ‘shadows’: selected Balkan countries, 1990–2022	9
Within Ethnic Population Inequality and within Self-Determination Movement Violence	9
Unemployment and Military Labour Supply: A Study on Belgian Data for the Period 2005-2020	9

Verification of Peace Accords and Military Expenditures in Post-Conflict Societies	9
Scientometric Analysis of the Relationship between Expenditure on Defence and Economic Growth: Current Situation and Future Perspectives	9
Extractive Politics, Redistribution, and War: On the Rationality of Kleptocratic Mismanagement	9
Constraining Compliance? Reconsidering the Effect of Veto Players on Sanctions Success	8
Military spending and the fear hypothesis	7
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales: evidence for policy makers from a new database	7
Technological Emergence and Military Technology Innovation	7
The Impact of Military Expenditures on Economic Growth: A New Instrumental Variables Approach	7
Concentration and Innovation in the Defence Industry: A Stochastic Game	7
Beyond U.S. Guarantees: can Europe defend the Baltic without American ground forces?	7
European Defence: No Zeitenwende Yet	6
Arms Spending and War Casualties: Understanding the Strategic Trade-Offs in Warfare	6
Long-Run Equilibrium Between Military Expenditure and GDP with Non-Linear Structural Breaks in NATO Member States	6
Reassessing the military expenditure–economic growth nexus in the context of geopolitical risk: evidence from Poland	6
Cybersecurity For Defense Economists	6
A theoretical treatment of foreign fighters and terrorism	6
Has the iron fist against criminal gangs really worked in El Salvador?	6
Equilibrium in an asymmetric war of attrition with a fight option	6
International Transmission of Fiscal News Shock: Evidence from Defense Spending	5
Defence Partnerships and Economic Dynamics: An Analysis in PESCO Countries	5
Guns vs health: unraveling the interplay between geopolitical risk, arms race and health expenditure	5
Warming, cooling, commodity prices, and conflict: do UN peacekeeping troops reduce the effects?	5
Crime control or power projection? Explaining the contemporary militarisation of nation states’ coercive apparatus between 2011 and 2021	5
Tourism demand recovery following terrorism ceasefire: the case of the Basque country	5
Christian nationalism, apocalypticism, outgroup hate, and support for violent extremism	5
The economic costs and benefits of the European Future Combat Air System	5
Asymmetric Effects of Positive and Negative Commodity Price Shocks During Civil Wars	5
Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Spend More and Better’	5
Collective Action and Intra-Group Conflict: An Experiment	5
Developments in Military Expenditure and the Effects of the War in Ukraine	5
Courtship, Honeymoon, and Stabilisation? Military Expenditures of New NATO Member Countries Before and After the 1999–2020 Enlargements	5
Saudi Arabia’s defence industrial transition: from vision to reality?	5
Military spending and growth: empirical evidence from a post-Keynesian model	5
External support for insurgents in civil conflicts: a bipartite network analysis, 1989–2017	5