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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	49
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	45
Environment and Resources	38
Russia and Eurasia	27
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	20
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance	19
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	15
Noteworthy	13
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	11
How the War Has Changed Russia	11
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	10
Politics and International Relations	9
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	9
Culture and Society	8
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	8
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	8
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	8
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	8
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	8
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	8
Russia and Eurasia	7
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	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 US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	7
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	6
Deterrence and Arms Control	6
NATO’s Next Strategic Concept: Prioritise or Perish	6
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	5
Understanding Russia: Personalist Autocracy Versus Historical Continuity	5
Brief Notices	5
Ukraine vs Gaza	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
Middle East	5
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	5
War with China	5
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
Brief Notices	4
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	4
More than Decorative, Less than Decisive: Russian A2/AD Capabilities and NATO	4
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence	4
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	4
United States	4
United States	4
Preventing Nuclear War	4
Ukraine’s IT Army	4
The Battle for the Internet	4
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	4
The Choice for Sanctions	4
South Asia	4
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	4
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	3
What Putin Fights For	3
Noteworthy	3
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	3
Environment and Resources	3
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	3
Economy	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
America’s Architectural Challenge in Southeast Asia	3
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	3
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	3
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
Noteworthy	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
Getting China Right	2
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	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
Africa	2
Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2

America’s ‘Ungoverning’ in Global Context	2
Brief Notices	2
Russia and Eurasia	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
Noteworthy	2
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	2
Noteworthy	2
Israel’s Perilous Revisionism	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	2
Middle East	2
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	2
A Fragile Convergence: The US–Japan–South Korea Camp David Summit	1
Brief Notices	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
Sadie’s People	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
Noteworthy	1
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	1
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	1
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Colombia’s River of Life and Death	1
Noteworthy	1
Israel at War, One Year On	1
Ireland’s Future: United, European and in NATO	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1
Culture and War	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	1
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	1
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	1
Asia-Pacific	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
War, Conflict and the Military	1
Correction	1
Noteworthy	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Noteworthy	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	1
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	1
Brief Notices	1
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Europe Without America	1