OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foreign Policy Analysis is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	28
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	12
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	10
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	9
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	9
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	9
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	8
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	8
(Geo)Politics of Universal Periodic Review: Why States Issue and Accept Human Rights Recommendations?	7
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	7
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	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	6
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	5
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	5
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	5
International Crisis Termination and Presidential Approval	5
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	5
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	5
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	5
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
The Benefits of Friendliness: The Consequences of Positive Interpersonal Relations for Interstate Politics	4
Why Talk Tough? Explaining Japanese Prime Ministers’ Proactiveness in National Defense Rhetoric	4

Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	4
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	4
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	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	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	3
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	3
Birds of a Feather, Do Sanctioned States Flock Together?	3
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	3
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	3
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
Committed Moderates and Uncommitted Extremists: Ideological Leaning and Parties’ Narratives on Military Interventions in Italy	2
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	2
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	2
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	2
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	2
Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy	2
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	2
Dimensionality of Party Politics of Foreign Policy: Spatial Modeling of Slovakia's National Council	2
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	2
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	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
Going Nativist: How Nativism and Economic Ideology Interact to Shape Beliefs about Global Trade	2
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
Migration and Economic Coercion	2
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	2
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	2