OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	63
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries	42
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	34
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery	27
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	22
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	17
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	17
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data	17
Contributing to Peace	16
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	16
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	16
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	15
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	15
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	15
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	15
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	14
Does Deplatforming Work?	14
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	14
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	14
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	14
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	13
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	13
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	13
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad	12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	12

Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	12
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence	11
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban	11
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	11
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys	11
The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression	11
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots	11
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism	11
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security	11
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings	10
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors	10
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia	10
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?	10
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries	10
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula	10
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”	9
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations	9
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic	9
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency	8
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	8
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	8
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions	8
Citizens in Peace Processes	8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence	8
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq	8
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	8
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa	8
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities	8
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico	8
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War	8
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	8
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	8
Religiosity, Political Tolerance, and Willingness to Reconcile in Post-conflict Contexts: Evidence From Colombia	8
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19	8
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior	8
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon	7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	7
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity	7
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset	7
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification	6
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”	6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology	6
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	6
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	6
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia	6
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences	6
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	6
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity	6

Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	6
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	6
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	6
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism	5
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?	5
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization	5
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India	5
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing	5
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War	5
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence	5
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism	5
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination	5
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China	5
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship	5
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	5
Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	5
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance	5
The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset	5
Thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace: A construal-level perspective on intergroup conflict resolution	5
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors	5
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition	5
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions	5
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka	5
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks	5