Contemporary Security Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Security Policy is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace93
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize74
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis58
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence46
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions45
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation44
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states42
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine28
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism23
Changes to the editorial team and board19
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific19
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world18
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya17
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order16
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings15
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world15
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize15
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis14
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine14
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime14
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping14
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly13
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine13
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf12
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward11
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise11
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war10
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations10
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific9
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited9
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war8
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers8
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States8
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