OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Security Policy 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace	93
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	74
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	58
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	46
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	45
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	44
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	42
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	28
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	23
Changes to the editorial team and board	19
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	19
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	18
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	17
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	16
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	15
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	15
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	14
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	14
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	14
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis	14
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	13
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	13
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	12

Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward	11
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	10
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	10
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	9
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	9
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	8
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States	8
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment	8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	8
Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs	7
Changes to the editorial board	7
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	7
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	7
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems	7
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	7
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime	6
The politics of climate security in France	6
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	6
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	5
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	5
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	5
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	5
Making peace by fighting war: Competing visions of conflict management and African agency in the “new scramble for Africa”	5
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	5
Joint military exercises and security ordering in Southeast Asia	5
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	5
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	5
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	5
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	4
Transformation of alliances: Mapping Russia’s close relationships in the era of multivectorism	4
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	4
Message from the incoming editors	4
Power to the have-nots? The NPT and the limits of a treaty hijacked by a “power-over” model	4
Symbolism or substance? Europe’s naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific	4
National security outweighs norms and principles: Egypt’s foreign policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms exports to India and Indonesia	4
Great power identity in Russia’s position on autonomous weapons systems	4
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	3
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	3
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	3
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	3
Keeping friends close and enemies closer: Praxis in international security order and the Singapore armed forces	3
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and regional order: The utility of FPDA military exercises for Malaysia and Singapore	3
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	3
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	3
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	3

Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	3