OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Foreign Policy Analysis is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	33
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	13
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	12
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	11
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	10
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	10
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	10
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	9
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	9
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	8
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	7
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	7
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	7
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	6
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	6
International Crisis Termination and Presidential Approval	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	6
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	5
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	5
The Benefits of Friendliness: The Consequences of Positive Interpersonal Relations for Interstate Politics	5
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences: Micro-Level Insights from the Iran–Israel Confrontation	5
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	4
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	4

Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	4
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	4
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	4
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	4
Why Talk Tough? Explaining Japanese Prime Ministers’ Proactiveness in National Defense Rhetoric	4
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	3
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	3
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	3
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	3
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	3
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	3
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	3
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	3
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	3
Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	3
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	2
Cheerleading in Cyberspace: How the American Public Judges Attribution Claims for Cyberattacks	2
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	2
Economic Sanctions and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World	2
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	2
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	2
Toward a (More) Critical FPA	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	2
Frontiering International Relations: Narrating US Policy in the Asia Pacific	2
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
Populist Minds Think Alike? National Identity Conceptions and Foreign Policy Preferences of Populist Leaders	1
Political Risk and Economic Sectors: Chinese Overseas Public and Private Investment in the Developing World	1
Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment	1
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	1
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	1
Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Development: Unraveling Economic Rationales in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Do Americans Support War Crimes Prosecutions?	1
Visceral Politics and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Decision-Making	1
Introducing Myth to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Blair Poodle Myth and Its Impact on Constructions of the “Special Relationship”	1
Embargoes, Weapons, and Violence: The Conditional Effects of Arms Embargoes on Civilian Targeting	1

The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	1
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch	1
Sand in the Gears: When Diplomatic Interpersonal Interactions Go Awry	1
How States Punch above Their Weight: Introducing Hybrid Actorness as Expanded Foreign Policy	1
When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy	1
The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?	1
Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha	1
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity	1
Anti-Weapons Activism and Arms Bans: Why Brazil Banned Anti-Personnel Mines but Not Cluster Munitions	1
The Power of Knowledge: How Think Tanks Impact US Foreign Policy	1
Staying or Leaving? How Businesses Take Action Towards Economic Sanctions and Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine War	1