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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	34
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	15
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	14
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	12
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	11
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	10
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	10
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	9
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	9
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	8
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	8
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	8
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	7
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	6
The Benefits of Friendliness: The Consequences of Positive Interpersonal Relations for Interstate Politics	6
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
International Crisis Termination and Presidential Approval	6
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	5
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	5
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences: Micro-Level Insights from the Iran–Israel Confrontation	5
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	4
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	4

Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	4
Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy	4
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	4
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	4
All Things Work Together for Good: How Bilateral Investment Treaties Affect the Allocation of Foreign Aid	4
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	4
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	4
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	4
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	4
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	3
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	3
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	3
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	3
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	3
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	3
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	3
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	3
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	3
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	3
The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	2
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	2
Cheerleading in Cyberspace: How the American Public Judges Attribution Claims for Cyberattacks	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	2
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	2
Frontiering International Relations: Narrating US Policy in the Asia Pacific	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
Economic Sanctions and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World	2
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	2
Anti-Weapons Activism and Arms Bans: Why Brazil Banned Anti-Personnel Mines but Not Cluster Munitions	1
Disparity and Diversion: Domestic Economic Inequality and MID Initiation	1
The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?	1
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
Embargoes, Weapons, and Violence: The Conditional Effects of Arms Embargoes on Civilian Targeting	1
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch	1
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	1
How States Punch above Their Weight: Introducing Hybrid Actorness as Expanded Foreign Policy	1
Does Emergency Rule Help Counterinsurgents? Testing the Hearts and Minds Theories	1

When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy	1
Do Americans Support War Crimes Prosecutions?	1
Sand in the Gears: When Diplomatic Interpersonal Interactions Go Awry	1
Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha	1
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	1
Introducing Myth to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Blair Poodle Myth and Its Impact on Constructions of the “Special Relationship”	1
Strong-State Restraint as a Legitimation Strategy: Evidence from the South China Sea	1
Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Development: Unraveling Economic Rationales in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Staying or Leaving? How Businesses Take Action Towards Economic Sanctions and Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Visceral Politics and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Decision-Making	1
Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity	1
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment	1