OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Security Policy 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	58
Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans	45
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	36
A fragile public preference for cyber strikes: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel	27
Protecting hidden infrastructure: The security politics of the global submarine data cable network	26
UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches	23
Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	23
The limitations of strategic narratives: The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19	22
Peace operations are what states make of them: Why future evolution is more likely than extinction	22
The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal	20
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	14
Differentiated cooperation as the mode of governance in EU foreign policy	13
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	11
Authoritarian multilateralism in the global cyber regime complex: The double transformation of an international diplomatic practice	11
Durable institution under fire? The NPT confronts emerging multipolarity	11
The ambiguity of hybrid warfare: A qualitative content analysis of the United Kingdom's political–military discourse on Russia's hostile activities	10
War in Ukraine	10
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	10
Not by NPT alone: The future of the global nuclear order	10
NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime	10
Stability abroad, instability at home? Changing UN peace operations and civil–military relations in Global South troop contributing countries	9
India’s recognition as a nuclear power: A case of strategic cooptation	9
Great power identity in Russia’s position on autonomous weapons systems	9
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	9
Responding to the crisis in United Nations peace operations	9

Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	9
Utility-based predictions of military escalation: Why experts forecasted Russia would not invade Ukraine	8
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis	8
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	8
(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	8
A theory of nuclear disarmament: Cases, analogies, and the role of the non-proliferation regime	8
Externalizing EU crisis management: EU orchestration of the OSCE during the Ukrainian conflict	8
Experimental differentiation as an innovative form of cooperation in the European Union: Evidence from the Nordic Battlegroup	8
Politics is not everything: New perspectives on the public disclosure of intelligence by states	8
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	8
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	7
Emerging technology and nuclear security: What does the wisdom of the crowd tell us?	7
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward	7
Conflict management or conflict resolution: how do major powers conceive the role of the United Nations in peacebuilding?	7
Informal groupings as types of differentiated cooperation in EU foreign policy: the cases of Kosovo, Libya, and Syria	7
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	6
The dual-use security dilemma and the social construction of insecurity	6
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States	6
Who lost Ethiopia? The unmaking of an African anchor state and U.S. foreign policy	6
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	6
Whether to worry: Nuclear weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war	6
Redefining deterrence in cyberspace: Private sector contribution to national strategies of cyber deterrence	5
The crafting of alliance cohesion among insurgents: The case of al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the Sahel region	5
Global Britain in the grey zone: Between stagecraft and statecraft	5
The pervasive informality of the international cybersecurity regime: Geopolitics, non-state actors and diplomacy	5
Between EU candidacy and independent diplomacy: third country alignment with EU positions at the OSCE	4
Everyday visuality and risk management: Representing (in)security in UN peacekeeping	4
The role of insurers in shaping international cyber-security norms about cyber-war	4
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	4
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Power to the have-nots? The NPT and the limits of a treaty hijacked by a “power-over” model	4
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment	4
The regulation of private military and security companies: Analyzing power in multi-stakeholder initiatives	4
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	4
Predictors of support for a ban on killer robots: Preventive arms control as an anticipatory response to military innovation	4
Coercive disclosure: The weaponization of public intelligence revelation in international relations	4
From reluctance to reassurance: Explaining the shift in the Germans’ NATO alliance solidarity following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	4
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	4