OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foreign Policy Analysis 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	34
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	20
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	14
Narrating Security, Preserving Identity: Japan’s Discursive Securitization without Militarization	13
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	12
Coalitions at the Brink of War: How Fragmented Decision-Making Occurs in International Crises—The July 1914 Case	11
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
Polarization, Political Turnover, and the Stability of Democratic Foreign Policy	9
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	9
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	7
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	7
Drivers of Public Support for Foreign Aid: Democracy Promotion or Competition for Influence?	7
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	7
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	7
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	7
Unlocking Public Support: How Communication about Program Design Affects Public Perception of IMF Interventions	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	6
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences: Micro-Level Insights from the Iran–Israel Confrontation	6
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	6
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	6
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	6

Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	5
Assessing the Effects of International Sanctions on Conflict-Induced Refugee Flows	5
The Paradox of Cooperative Migration Diplomacy in the Global South: Inter-Sending State Cooperation, Multilevel Diplomacy Strategies, and the Philippine State	5
Crisis at Home, Exit Abroad: Coups, Civil Wars, and Coalition Defection	5
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	5
Important Topics: Variation in Leadership Trait Analysis Scores by Topic	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
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	4
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	4
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	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
From Attraction to Strategy: Comparing the Foreign Policy Logic of Overseas Scholarship Programmes in Australia and China	3
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	3
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	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
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	3
The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States	3
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3