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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	117
The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy	87
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	79
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	67
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	60
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	60
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	56
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	34
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	32
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	27
A paradigmatic study of strategic partnerships in international relations: Concepts, debates and theorizations	26
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	24
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	22
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	22
Defence and climate change: An introduction	19
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	18
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	17
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	16
The 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	15
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	15
Beyond burden-sharing: Signaling and variation in NATO defence spending	15
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy	14
Editorial message 2026	13
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	12

Apocalyptic imaginaries: Risk and regulation in discourses of military AI and nuclear weapons	12
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	12
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry	12
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	10
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	10
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	10
A civilizational imaginary of Western military technology	9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	9
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	9
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	9
The paradox of power in cyberconflict: Why authoritarian states have the advantage	8
Changes to the editorial board	8
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	8
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	8
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	8
Beyond barrels and battleships: Maritime power and ontological security in the Arabian/Persian Gulf	8
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	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
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems	7
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	7
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	7
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	7
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	7
The politics of climate security in France	7
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	7
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	6
More than diversion: Economic turmoil, foreign-policy assertiveness, and China’s balance of risk	6
Message from the incoming editors	6
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	6
Making peace by fighting war: Competing visions of conflict management and African agency in the “new scramble for Africa”	6
Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms exports to India and Indonesia	6
Joint military exercises and security ordering in Southeast Asia	6
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	5
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	5
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	5
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	5
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	5
“Taking down the sign”—narrating the liberal international order without American leadership	5
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and regional order: The utility of FPDA military exercises for Malaysia and Singapore	5
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	5
Symbolism or substance? Europe’s naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific	5
National security outweighs norms and principles: Egypt’s foreign policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war	5
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	5
Keeping friends close and enemies closer: Praxis in international security order and the Singapore armed forces	4
Narrating a global order with Chinese characteristics	4
The fragile coherence of Russia’s international order	4

The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	3
Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The gendered politics of wartime assistance: Female leaders and military aid to Ukraine	3
Towards agentic security in the emerging European Union AI policy	3
Re-ordering accountability: The significance of joint public attribution in a fragmented cyberspace	3
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	3
State-sponsored cyber conflict: How Russia responds to election interference allegations on social media	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
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	3