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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data62
Contributing to Peace42
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-202033
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom26
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries22
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery17
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights17
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict16
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances16
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey16
The Economic Coercion Trilemma15
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians15
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset14
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts14
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions14
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations14
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans14
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements14
Does Deplatforming Work?14
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis13
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe13
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation12
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?12
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution11
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban11
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation11
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security11
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys11
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism11
The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression11
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad11
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance11
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings10
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots10
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia10
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence10
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula10
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries10
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?9
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations9
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors9
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”9
Citizens in Peace Processes9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War8
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities8
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-198
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence8
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa8
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency8
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico8
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior8
Religiosity, Political Tolerance, and Willingness to Reconcile in Post-conflict Contexts: Evidence From Colombia8
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions8
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq7
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo7
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests7
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes7
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon7
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing7
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation7
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity7
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis7
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism6
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences6
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification6
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization6
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia6
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration6
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities6
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders6
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War5
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War5
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization5
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis5
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing5
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors5
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition5
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers5
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India5
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship5
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions5
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China5
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections5
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks5
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance5
Fighting in Cyberspace: Internet Access and the Substitutability of Cyber and Military Operations4
Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War4
Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?4
The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset4
Looking Like a Winner: Leader Narcissism and War Duration4
Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia4
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence4
Secessionism and Wartime Sexual Violence4
Who Gets the Guns? How Democratic Values and Security Threats Affect American Attitudes Toward Military Aid4
Interstate Resource Conflicts: A Network-Centric Resource Access Security Perspective4
Domestic Political Unrest and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World4
When Fairness is Unfair: Norm Abandonment in Bargaining and Its Implications for Peace Negotiations4
Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade4
Climbing the Ladder: Explaining the Vertical Proliferation of Cruise Missiles4
Terrorism Works, for its Supporters4
Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence From the Spanish Civil War4
Thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace: A construal-level perspective on intergroup conflict resolution4
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka4
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism4
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Criminal Groups in Mexico4
The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization4
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid4
Rainy Friday: Religious Participation and Protests4
Nationalism, Regime Type, and Trade Agreements4
Armies and Influence: Elite Experience and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy4
Civil War Settlements, Perceived Agreement Fairness, and Trust in Political Authorities: Investigating the Influence of Power Sharing on Public Opinion in Divided Societies4
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination4
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism4
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?4
What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People4
Living in Fear? Political Violence and Authoritarian Attitudes Among Politicians in South Africa4
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 20213
Decision Making on the World Court: Are International Judges Geopolitically Biased?3
Measuring Arms: Introducing the Global Military Spending Dataset3
Deliberate Nuclear First Use in an Era of Asymmetry: A Game Theoretical Approach3
How Ethnic Discrimination Shapes Political Reintegration After War: Insights From a Conjoint Experiment in Colombia3
Causes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change: The Signal of Economic Expropriation3
The Urban Origins of Rebellion3
Friday on My Mind: Re-Assessing the Impact of Protest Size on Government Concessions3
From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO3
Incumbent-Aligned Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Argentina’s 1973 Elections3
The Warm War: The Effect of Ukrainian President’s Communal Personality Traits on Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior towards the Ukrainians3
The Rise and Fall of the Confucian Long Peace: A New Dataset for Analyzing Regional Conflict Management in East Asia (1598–1894)3
Peace Negotiations in Civil Conflicts: A New Dataset3
Provocation, Bargaining, and War3
Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements3
Wartime Experiences and Popular Support for Peace Agreements: Comparative Evidence from Three Cases3
Expression of Concern3
Elite Cues and Public Attitudes Towards Military Alliances3
A Call to Arms: How Rebel Groups Choose Their Recruitment Appeals3
Local Ceasefires and De-escalation: Evidence From the Syrian Civil War3
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 20203
Us and Them: Foreign Threat and Domestic Polarization3
Legacies of Survival: Historical Violence and Ethnic Minority Behavior3
When Do Imposed Sanctions Work? The Role of Target Regime Type3
Citizens and Peace Mediations in Divided Societies: Identifying Zones of Agreement through a Conjoint Survey Experiment3
Selling Violent Extremism3
Can Rebels Bolster Trust in the Government? Evidence from the Philippines3
Transatlantic Shakedown: Presidential Shaming and NATO Burden Sharing3
Brewing Violence: Foreign Investment and Civil Conflict3
The Long-Term Economic Legacies of Rebel Rule in Civil War: Micro Evidence From Colombia3
Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset3
Alliance Formation in Regional Space: Shifting the Battlefront Between Competing Hegemonial Powers2
Income and Terrorism: Insights From Subnational Data2
Public Preferences for Intergroup Assistance in Conflicts Facing Joint External Threats: Lessons From COVID-19 in Israel2
State Security or Exploitation: A Theory of Military Involvement in the Economy2
Erratum to ‘A liberal peace? The growth of liberal norms and the decline of interstate violence’2
The Long Shadow of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Nonstate Actor Violence2
Who Punishes Leaders for Lying About the Use of Force? Evaluating The Microfoundations of Domestic Deception Costs2
Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR2
Military Experience and Casualty Sensitivity in Elite Discourse: Evidence From the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan2
Does the US Really Embolden its Allies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Japan2
Violent Political Protest: Introducing a New Uppsala Conflict Data Program Data Set on Organized Violence, 1989-20192
The Militarized Interstate Confrontation Dataset, 1816-20142
Why Do Leaders Build Walls? Domestic Politics, Leader Survival, and The Fortification of Borders2
The Long-run Impact of Childhood Wartime Violence on Preferences for Nuclear Proliferation2
Exports, Employment and Conflict: Evidence From the Second Intifada2
The Commercial Military Actor Database2
Paper Tigers: Assessing the Role of Corruption in Shaping Conflict Outcomes2
I’ll Be Back? Exiled Leaders and Political Instability2
Winning Hearts and Minds? How the United States Reassured During the Russo-Ukrainian War2
Introducing the Rebels’ Armament Dataset (RAD): Empirical Evidence on Rebel Military Capabilities2
International Negotiations in the Shadow of Elections2
Targeting Quality or Quantity? The Divergent Effects of Targeting Upper Verses Lower-Tier Leaders of Militant Organizations2
War on Aisle 5: Casualties, National Identity, and Consumer Behavior2
Rebel Leader Age and the Outcomes of Civil Wars2
Economic Theory of Alliances: Sixty Years Later2
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan2
Secret Police Organizations and State Repression2
Rebel Recruitment and Migration: Theory and Evidence From Southern Senegal2
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