OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Survival is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	45
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	41
Environment and Resources	36
The US Navy and the Western PacificU.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat, Brent Droste Sadler. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2023. $39.	24
Russia and Eurasia	24
Russia and Eurasia	17
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	17
Noteworthy	14
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	12
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	11
How the War Has Changed Russia	11
Politics and International Relations	11
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	9
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	9
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	9
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	8
Culture and Society	8
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	7
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	7
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	7
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	7
Ana Montes: An (Almost) Perfect SpyCode Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy – and the Sister She Betrayed, Jim Popkin. New York: Hanover Square Press, 2023. $27.99. 3	7
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	7
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	7

Deterrence and Arms Control	6
Russia and Eurasia	6
NATO’s Next Strategic Concept: Prioritise or Perish	6
Noteworthy	6
Brief Notices	5
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	5
Understanding Russia: Personalist Autocracy Versus Historical Continuity	5
Middle East	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
War with China	5
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	5
Ukraine vs Gaza	5
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	5
United States	4
South Asia	4
The Battle for the Internet	4
Ukraine’s IT Army	4
The Choice for Sanctions	4
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	4
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence	4
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	4
More than Decorative, Less than Decisive: Russian A2/AD Capabilities and NATO	4
Preventing Nuclear War	4
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	4
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	3
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
What Putin Fights For	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
Politics and International Relations	3
Environment and Resources	3
United States	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	3
Noteworthy	3
Brief Notices	3
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
Changing the Way We Think About EuropeThe Origins of European Integration: The Pre-history of Today’s European Union, 1937–1951Mathieu Segers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.£22.99. 244 p	3
Economy	3
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	3
America’s Architectural Challenge in Southeast Asia	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	2
Africa	2
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
Middle East	2
Enabling US Security Cooperation	2
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	2
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2

Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
The Rise of Economic Nationalism EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China: The End of Naivety Joachim Schild and Dirk Schmidt. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.£130	2
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’	2
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	2
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2
Noteworthy	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
Culture and War	1
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	1
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	1
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Brief Notices	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
Noteworthy	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
Noteworthy	1
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	1
Noteworthy	1
Response: Keep the NPT	1
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
Competing with the BRI: The West’s Uphill Task	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Sadie’s People	1
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	1
Europe Without America	1
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	1
Colombia’s River of Life and Death	1
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
Brief Notices	1
Brief Notices	1
Getting China Right	1