OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Defence and Peace Economics is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Economic Benefits of North Warning System Modernization	30
Geopolitical risk spillovers and interconnectedness: evidence from the MENA region and key global powers	26
Drivers and Impact of European Defence Market Integration: A Literature Meta-Synthesis with Economic Focus	18
High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway	17
Modest and balanced: the US defense budget buildup during the first Trump administration, 2017–2020	16
Natural resource dependence and war nexus: new insights	13
Demand for Military Expenditures and Security Alignment Choices in the Indo-Pacific	12
Strategic Interaction of Governments and Terrorist Groups in Times of Economic Hardship	12
Geopolitical Risk and Stock-Bond Interplay: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Conventional Assets in the GCC	11
The Spectrum of Strategic Autonomy in EU Defence Supply Chains	11
Military Spending Composition and Economic Growth	11
The Dynamics of the Global Arms Trade Network: States’ Stability and Instability	10
Post Service Labor Market Performance of Immigrant Veterans	10
Class Warfare: Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950	10
Should I Pay, Or Should I Quash? The Role of Governments’ Ideology in Ransom Payment	10
The Formation of Terrorist Groups: An Empirical Analysis	10
The Evolution Towards the Partial Strategic Autonomy of Sweden’s Essential Security Interests	9
Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s	8
Do Political Instability and Military Expenditure Undermine Economic Growth in Egypt? Evidence from the ARDL Approach	8
Long-term Consequences of Civil War in Tajikistan: The Gendered Impact on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	8
Corruption, ICT and Military Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike	8
Fertile ground for conflict: evidence revisited using spatial first differences	8
Country Survey: Canadian Military Expenditure and Defence Policy	7
The Political Economy of Military Aircraft, the Case of Europe	7

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