Journal of Conflict Resolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Conflict Resolution 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-202065
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries42
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights34
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery27
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances22
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey18
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom18
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data18
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict17
Contributing to Peace17
The Economic Coercion Trilemma16
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations16
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions15
Does Deplatforming Work?15
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians15
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans15
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts15
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset15
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance14
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?14
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation14
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis14
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation13
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban12
The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements12
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution12
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe12
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security11
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism11
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots11
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad11
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence11
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys11
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings10
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula10
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors10
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia10
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations10
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries10
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”10
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities9
Citizens in Peace Processes9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War9
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico9
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions9
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?9
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic9
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests8
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes8
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa8
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-198
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing8
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq8
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence8
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo8
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity8
Religiosity, Political Tolerance, and Willingness to Reconcile in Post-conflict Contexts: Evidence From Colombia8
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior8
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis7
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention7
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification7
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon7
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities7
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
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”7
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration6
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers6
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences6
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition6
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis6
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism6
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors6
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China6
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks6
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions6
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset6
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections6
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia6
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War6
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship6
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War6
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization6
Civil War Settlements, Perceived Agreement Fairness, and Trust in Political Authorities: Investigating the Influence of Power Sharing on Public Opinion in Divided Societies5
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka5
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism5
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?5
The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset5
Terrorism Works, for its Supporters5
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance5
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence5
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination5
The Bombing of Hospitals and Rebel Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria5
Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia5
Looking Like a Winner: Leader Narcissism and War Duration5
Secessionism and Wartime Sexual Violence5
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism5
The Impact of Terrorism on Democratic Support in Africa5
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing5
Thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace: A construal-level perspective on intergroup conflict resolution5
Who Gets the Guns? How Democratic Values and Security Threats Affect American Attitudes Toward Military Aid5
Rainy Friday: Religious Participation and Protests4
Causes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change: The Signal of Economic Expropriation4
Citizens and Peace Mediations in Divided Societies: Identifying Zones of Agreement through a Conjoint Survey Experiment4
Wartime Experiences and Popular Support for Peace Agreements: Comparative Evidence from Three Cases4
A Call to Arms: How Rebel Groups Choose Their Recruitment Appeals4
The Urban Origins of Rebellion4
Domestic Political Unrest and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World4
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid4
Armies and Influence: Elite Experience and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy4
The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization4
What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People4
Elite Cues and Public Attitudes Towards Military Alliances4
The Long-Term Economic Legacies of Rebel Rule in Civil War: Micro Evidence From Colombia4
Group Enrolment and Conflict Behavior4
Can Rebels Bolster Trust in the Government? Evidence from the Philippines4
Transatlantic Shakedown: Presidential Shaming and NATO Burden Sharing4
Fighting in Cyberspace: Internet Access and the Substitutability of Cyber and Military Operations4
Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?4
Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War4
When Fairness is Unfair: Norm Abandonment in Bargaining and Its Implications for Peace Negotiations4
Interstate Resource Conflicts: A Network-Centric Resource Access Security Perspective4
Climbing the Ladder: Explaining the Vertical Proliferation of Cruise Missiles4
How Ethnic Discrimination Shapes Political Reintegration After War: Insights From a Conjoint Experiment in Colombia4
Brewing Violence: Foreign Investment and Civil Conflict4
Expression of Concern4
Military Insubordination and International Coercion4
Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade4
Living in Fear? Political Violence and Authoritarian Attitudes Among Politicians in South Africa4
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Criminal Groups in Mexico4
Nationalism, Regime Type, and Trade Agreements4
Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence From the Spanish Civil War4
From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO3
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 20213
Secret Police Organizations and State Repression3
Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset3
Local Ceasefires and De-escalation: Evidence From the Syrian Civil War3
Paper Tigers: Assessing the Role of Corruption in Shaping Conflict Outcomes3
Peace Negotiations in Civil Conflicts: A New Dataset3
Decision Making on the World Court: Are International Judges Geopolitically Biased?3
Selling Violent Extremism3
Measuring Arms: Introducing the Global Military Spending Dataset3
Winning Hearts and Minds? How the United States Reassured During the Russo-Ukrainian War3
The Commercial Military Actor Database3
Us and Them: Foreign Threat and Domestic Polarization3
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
Legacies of Survival: Historical Violence and Ethnic Minority Behavior3
Provocation, Bargaining, and War3
Deliberate Nuclear First Use in an Era of Asymmetry: A Game Theoretical Approach3
Friday on My Mind: Re-Assessing the Impact of Protest Size on Government Concessions3
Economic Theory of Alliances: Sixty Years Later3
Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR3
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan3
Who Punishes Leaders for Lying About the Use of Force? Evaluating The Microfoundations of Domestic Deception Costs3
The Rise and Fall of the Confucian Long Peace: A New Dataset for Analyzing Regional Conflict Management in East Asia (1598–1894)3
When Do Imposed Sanctions Work? The Role of Target Regime Type3
Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements3
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