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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace	71
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	61
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	48
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	36
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	33
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	28
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	23
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	20
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	20
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	20
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	16
Changes to the editorial team and board	15
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	13
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	13
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	13
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	12
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	12
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	12
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis	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
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	11
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	11
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	11
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	10

The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	10
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	10
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment	9
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	9
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	9
Politics is not everything: New perspectives on the public disclosure of intelligence by states	8
Changes to the editorial board	8
Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs	8
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	8
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems	8
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States	8
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	8
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	7
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	7
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime	7
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	6
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	6
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	6
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	5
Great power identity in Russia’s position on autonomous weapons systems	5
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	5
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	5
Message from the incoming editors	5
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	5
Power to the have-nots? The NPT and the limits of a treaty hijacked by a “power-over” model	5
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	4
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	4
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Transformation of alliances: Mapping Russia’s close relationships in the era of multivectorism	4
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	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
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	4
A theory of nuclear disarmament: Cases, analogies, and the role of the non-proliferation regime	4
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	3
The last atomic Waltz: China’s nuclear expansion and the persisting relevance of the theory of the nuclear revolution	3
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	3
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	3
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	3
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	3
Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	3