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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Environment and Resources	53
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	47
Russia and Eurasia	42
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.	28
Russia and Eurasia	25
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	21
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance	17
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	13
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	13
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
Noteworthy	12
Politics and International Relations	12
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	11
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	10
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	10
How the War Has Changed Russia	9
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	9
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	9
Culture and Society	9
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	8
The War Within: Gaza, Netanyahu and Israel’s Security Services	8
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	8
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	8
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	7
United States	7

Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	7
War, Conflict and the Military	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	6
Deterrence and Arms Control	6
Russia and Eurasia	6
Ukraine vs Gaza	6
Middle East	5
The Choice for Sanctions	5
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	5
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	5
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	5
South Asia	5
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
Brief Notices	5
United States	5
Preventing Nuclear War	5
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	5
War with China	5
Ukraine’s IT Army	4
Brief Notices	4
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	4
The Battle for the Internet	4
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	4
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	4
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	4
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	4
United States	4
Environment and Resources	4
What Putin Fights For	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	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
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
Africa	3
Noteworthy	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	3
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	3
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	3
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
Brief Notices	2
Israel’s Perilous Revisionism	2
America’s ‘Ungoverning’ in Global Context	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
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	2
The United States vs Brazil: Tariffs and Punishment	2
Brief Notices	2
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	2

Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	2
Getting China Right	2
Noteworthy	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
The Risk and Reward of Preventive Strikes Against Iran	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
Russia and Eurasia	2
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	2
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	2
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Noteworthy	2
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	2
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	2
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	2
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Culture and War	1
The Renegade Within: NATO’s American Dilemma	1
Middle East	1
America Needs a Realistic Ukraine Debate	1
Switzerland’s Neutrality Crisis	1
Europe Without America	1
Ireland’s Future: United, European and in NATO	1
Brief Notices	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
The Geopolitics of Governance	1
War, Conflict and the Military	1
Latin America	1
Correction	1
A Fragile Convergence: The US–Japan–South Korea Camp David Summit	1
Sadie’s People	1
Israel at War, One Year On	1
Asia-Pacific	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
Noteworthy	1
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Ukraine’s Fate and Europe’s Future: A View from Sweden	1
Cause for Relief? US Strategic Policies in Trump’s Second Term	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
The US in the Middle East: Stupid or Merely Fallible?	1
Noteworthy	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Noteworthy	1
Noteworthy	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1