Journal of Conflict Resolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Conflict Resolution 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contributing to Peace52
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict41
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom29
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey24
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances21
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries16
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-202016
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights15
Does Deplatforming Work?14
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations14
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data14
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians13
The Economic Coercion Trilemma13
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset13
Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests13
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans13
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts12
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation12
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions12
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements11
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis11
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe11
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?11
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance11
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad10
The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression10
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings10
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism10
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban10
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security10
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys10
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution10
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots9
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War9
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence9
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”9
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia8
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors8
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico8
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula8
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?8
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa8
Citizens in Peace Processes8
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence8
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions7
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-197
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity7
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests7
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency7
Religiosity, Political Tolerance, and Willingness to Reconcile in Post-conflict Contexts: Evidence From Colombia7
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis7
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior7
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities7
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo7
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology6
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration6
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing6
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon6
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization6
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation6
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders6
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”5
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers5
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis5
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention5
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences5
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions5
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections5
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia5
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset5
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War5
Corrigendum to Sticks and Stones? Connecting Insurgent Propaganda with Violent Outcomes5
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism5
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism4
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization4
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing4
Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia4
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism4
Armies and Influence: Elite Experience and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy4
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence4
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance4
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship4
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors4
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War4
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka4
Civil War Settlements, Perceived Agreement Fairness, and Trust in Political Authorities: Investigating the Influence of Power Sharing on Public Opinion in Divided Societies4
Terrorism Works, for its Supporters4
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination4
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?4
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition4
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China4
Thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace: A construal-level perspective on intergroup conflict resolution4
Secessionism and Wartime Sexual Violence4
Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence From the Spanish Civil War4
Looking Like a Winner: Leader Narcissism and War Duration4
The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset4
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks4
Rainy Friday: Religious Participation and Protests3
The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization3
Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade3
Expression of Concern3
Can Rebels Bolster Trust in the Government? Evidence from the Philippines3
Measuring Arms: Introducing the Global Military Spending Dataset3
The Long-Term Economic Legacies of Rebel Rule in Civil War: Micro Evidence From Colombia3
Peace Negotiations in Civil Conflicts: A New Dataset3
Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping3
Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements3
Wartime Experiences and Popular Support for Peace Agreements: Comparative Evidence from Three Cases3
Elite Cues and Public Attitudes Towards Military Alliances3
Interstate Resource Conflicts: A Network-Centric Resource Access Security Perspective3
Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?3
Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War3
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Criminal Groups in Mexico3
Living in Fear? Political Violence and Authoritarian Attitudes Among Politicians in South Africa3
Decision Making on the World Court: Are International Judges Geopolitically Biased?3
When Do Imposed Sanctions Work? The Role of Target Regime Type3
Selling Violent Extremism3
Friday on My Mind: Re-Assessing the Impact of Protest Size on Government Concessions3
The Urban Origins of Rebellion3
Deliberate Nuclear First Use in an Era of Asymmetry: A Game Theoretical Approach3
Citizens and Peace Mediations in Divided Societies: Identifying Zones of Agreement through a Conjoint Survey Experiment3
Transatlantic Shakedown: Presidential Shaming and NATO Burden Sharing3
Fighting in Cyberspace: Internet Access and the Substitutability of Cyber and Military Operations3
What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People3
Brewing Violence: Foreign Investment and Civil Conflict3
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid3
Causes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change: The Signal of Economic Expropriation3
Does Insurgent Selective Punishment Deter Collaboration? Evidence from the Drone War in Pakistan3
Legacies of Survival: Historical Violence and Ethnic Minority Behavior3
How Ethnic Discrimination Shapes Political Reintegration After War: Insights From a Conjoint Experiment in Colombia3
Domestic Political Unrest and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World3
From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO3
When Fairness is Unfair: Norm Abandonment in Bargaining and Its Implications for Peace Negotiations3
Provocation, Bargaining, and War3
Climbing the Ladder: Explaining the Vertical Proliferation of Cruise Missiles3
Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset2
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 20202
The Long-run Impact of Childhood Wartime Violence on Preferences for Nuclear Proliferation2
The Commercial Military Actor Database2
International Negotiations in the Shadow of Elections2
War on Aisle 5: Casualties, National Identity, and Consumer Behavior2
Why Do Leaders Build Walls? Domestic Politics, Leader Survival, and The Fortification of Borders2
Secret Police Organizations and State Repression2
Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR2
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan2
Incumbent-Aligned Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Argentina’s 1973 Elections2
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 20212
Who Punishes Leaders for Lying About the Use of Force? Evaluating The Microfoundations of Domestic Deception Costs2
Targeting Quality or Quantity? The Divergent Effects of Targeting Upper Verses Lower-Tier Leaders of Militant Organizations2
Erratum to ‘A liberal peace? The growth of liberal norms and the decline of interstate violence’2
Rebel Recruitment and Migration: Theory and Evidence From Southern Senegal2
The Militarized Interstate Confrontation Dataset, 1816-20142
Income and Terrorism: Insights From Subnational Data2
Local Ceasefires and De-escalation: Evidence From the Syrian Civil War2
Economic Theory of Alliances: Sixty Years Later2
The Warm War: The Effect of Ukrainian President’s Communal Personality Traits on Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior towards the Ukrainians2
The Rise and Fall of the Confucian Long Peace: A New Dataset for Analyzing Regional Conflict Management in East Asia (1598–1894)2
State Security or Exploitation: A Theory of Military Involvement in the Economy2
Public Preferences for Intergroup Assistance in Conflicts Facing Joint External Threats: Lessons From COVID-19 in Israel2
Violence and Children’s Education: Evidence From Administrative Data2
Exports, Employment and Conflict: Evidence From the Second Intifada2
I’ll Be Back? Exiled Leaders and Political Instability2
Us and Them: Foreign Threat and Domestic Polarization2
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