OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Armed Forces & Society 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“We Don’t Negotiate with Terrorists”—Afghanistan, Bargaining, and American Civil–Military Relations	15
Committed to its Founding Principles: 50 Years of Armed Forces & Society Journal	13
Engagement of Military Peacekeepers in Brazilian Politics (2011–2021)	12
Shaping Future Leaders in Taiwan: The Impact of Personality, Parental Emotional Blackmail, and Career Adaptability on Military Cadets	10
Is Transformational Military Leadership Out There? An Exploratory Research Study of Military Teams in Action	10
Trump(ing) Tradition: Old Laws, New Norms, and the Danger to Civil–Military Relations	9
Band of Brothers or Band of Others?: Rhetoric, Veterans, and Civil Rights Fights in Germany and the United States	9
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative?	8
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: The EMASYA Protocol and Civil-Military Relations in Turkey	8
Economic Sanctions and Civil–Military Relations in Target Countries	8
Book Review: Embracing senior leadership: Three critical factors needed to reach the C-suite and thrive by James W. Browning	8
Just Paying Lip Service? Public Trust and Public Support for Armed Forces in Germany	8
Book Review: Divided not conquered: How rebels fracture and splinters behave by Perkoski, E.	8
The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security	6
Professional Socialization During Restructuring: A Study of Workload and Career Time	6
Managing Threats on the High Seas: The Role of Naval Bases on Reducing Maritime Piracy	5
Stabilization of Anti-U.S. Military Bases Sentiment: Japan’s Evolving Compensation Policies and Base Politics in Okinawa	5
Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit	5
Editor’s Note: Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	5
Stolen Valor: The Legal Story Behind Impersonating Military Personnel	5
Book Review: Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army by Imy K	5
Troop Crime in Peacetime: Criminality and Accountability of U.S. Troops Worldwide During the Cold War	4
Characterizing Excellence: Lessons From Awarded Military-Technological Leaders	4
Rural Military Veterans of Color and STEM Occupational Outcomes	4
Narratives Around Civil–Military Cooperation: How Institutionalized Discourses Influence Learning in Peace Operations	4

Food Insecurity Among U.K. Veterans	4
Book Review: Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism by Chasdi, R.J.	4
Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	4
A Problem in the Huntingtonian Universe: The Military Side of the Gap	4
How Does Military Experience Affect Employment: Evidence From China	4
The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden	3
Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia–Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls	3
The Impact of Military Sexual Misconduct on the Deployment Experiences of Woman-Identifying Canadian Veterans	3
Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa	3
Sentiment Analysis of Russian-Language Social Media Posts Discussing the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	3
Bridging the Gap? Ex-Military Personnel and Military–Civilian Transition Within the Prison Workforce	3
The Growing Conservatism of White Veterans Since the 1970s	3
Mental Health of Canadian Children Growing Up in Military Families: The Child Perspective	3
Why Nurses Are Leaving Veterans Affairs Hospitals?	3
Expanding the New Roles of the Military—The Case of Spain’s Military Emergency Unit: A Research Note	3
Right or Wrong? The Civil–Military Problematique and Armed Forces & Society’s 50th	3
Unpacking “Stacking”: Researching Political Identity and Regime Security in Armed Forces	3
The Best They Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War	3
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study	3
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions: Then and Now	3
Military Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: Military Presence, Autonomy, and Human Rights Violations	2
Book Review: “German Warriors: From the Empire to the Berlin Republic—A Military History.”Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik—Eine Militärgeschichte by Sönke Neitzel	2
“Tokowa po ya ekolo”: The Military Body Within the Congolese Army	2
Book Review: The art of military innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces by Luttwak, E. N., & Shamir, E.	2
Emergent Veteran Identity: Toward a New Theory of Veteran Identity in Israeli Society	2
Gender and Sexual Minorities in the Armed and Police Forces: Perceptions and Mental Health Implications of Portuguese Militaries—A Qualitative Study	2
U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers’ Motivations for Joining the Military and Their Effects on Post-Deployment Mental Health	2
Accountability, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Civil-Military Relations	2
The Effects of Military Lifestyle and Operational Deployments on Marital Dynamics: A Qualitative Study of Military Spouses in Türkiye	2
“Leaning In” or “Taking a Knee”: Career Trajectories of Senior Leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces	2
Workplace Stress in Military Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Research Note	2
Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army’s Online Public Perception	2
The Potential Benefits of a Military to Prison-Work Pipeline: A Study of Newly Hired U.S. Prison Officers’ Self-Efficacy	2
U.S. Veterans and Civilians Describe Military News Coverage as Mediocre, Think Stories Affect Others More Than Themselves	2
Complexities and Possibilities of Strengthening the Social Inclusion of Military Women in the Netherlands Armed Forces: Findings From an Action Research Project	2
Calling out the Troops to Manage Environmental and Health Crises in Australia: Public Understandings of Domestic Armed Forces Operations	2
The Military As a Non-Caring Institution: A Case Study of Nigerian Military Widows of the Boko Haram Conflict	2
The “Supermen” Club: Organizational Secrecy and Masculine Identity in an Israeli National Security Organization	2
Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian–Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis	2
War and Commitment to Military Service: Deployment and Combat Experiences Associated With Retention Among Army National Guard Soldiers	2
Transformational Leadership in Extreme Contexts: Associations with Posttraumatic Growth and Self-Efficacy Among Combat Veterans	2
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Research Note	2
The Specter of the Casualty: Elite Misreading of British Public Perceptions of the Soldier 2001–2014	2
The Reactivation and Reimagination of Military Conscription in Sweden	2
Concordance Theory: A Retrospective on the Creation of New Civil–Military Relations Theory	2
U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy and Compliance With Regime	2
Virtuous Shirking and Social Distance: Concept Measurement in the Context of Militarized Response to Nonviolent Revolution	2
The Motivation to Enlist Among Kurds	2
“She Clearly Thought That Something Bad Had Happened to Her”: How Military Lawyers Construct Narratives of Victim Legitimacy and Perceived Harm in Sexual Assault Cases	2
Book Review: Threat multiplier: Climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security	2

National Guard Command Authority and the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020: Domestic Security Debates for a New Generation of Military Veterans	2
The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption	2
Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?	2
The Rebel and the Politician: Developing a Typology of Insurgent Civil–Military Relations	2
Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other	2
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya	1
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria	1
Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training	1
Civil–Military Relations: Through a Perilous Lens	1
Cohesion, Combat Performance and Civil-Military Relations: Contextualizing “The Word of Command”	1
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking	1
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science	1
A Mediated Model of Female Navy Personnel’s Personality Traits, Sexism, and Bystander Attitude Toward Sexual Harassment in Taiwan	1
Sexual Arenas, Alcohol (Ab)use, and Predatory Leadership: Facilitators of US Military Sexual Violence	1
Professionalized Heroism? Comparing US, UK, and Norwegian War Decorations From the War in Afghanistan	1
The Moral Career of Soldiers’ Identity: A Norwegian Case	1
“I Just Don’t Want to Be Part of It Anymore”: How Harm and Betrayal Erode Cohesion in the Aftermath of Military Sexual Misconduct	1
Hazardous Duty: Investigating Resistance to Police at the Point of Arrest Among Incarcerated Military Veterans	1
Income Security for Vietnam-Era Veterans: A Research Note	1
Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants—Two Decades On: A Research Note	1
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies	1
Assessing the Link Between Bible Reading and Flourishing Among Military Families: Preliminary Findings	1
Between “Victims” and Their “Saviors”: Process-Based Leadership and Trust Building in Civil–Military Relations in Northern Nigeria	1
Perceptions of Espoused Versus Enacted Culture Around Sexual Misconduct and Other Offenses Among U.S. Military Service Members	1
Book Review: Kings, conquerors, psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the corporation	1
Developing Effective Small Team Army Leaders: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Squad Leader Development Course	1
Who Lost Afghanistan? Samuel Huntington and the Decline of Strategic Thinking	1
Building a National Army: The Paradoxes of Civil–Military Relations in Ethiopia	1
Perceptions of Women in U.S. Army Combat Units: A Mixed-Methods Study Post-Gender Integration	1
A Tale of Two Clocks: A Framework for Assessing Time Pressure and Advantage in the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
Why Did the Taliban Win?	1
Differences in Cultural Dimensions Between South Korean Officers and Conscripts: A Topic Modeling Approach	1
Are the U.S. Military’s Nonpartisan Norms Eroding?	1
A Comparative Study of Military Communication on Instagram: A Research Note	1
Making Ends Meet: Employment, Cash Transfers, and Poverty in Post–9/11 Era Wounded Military Veterans	1
Military Propensity Among Israel Defense Forces’ Potential Conscripts: A Re-Examination and Differentiation by Personal Preferences of Enlistment Motivation	1
Predicting Loyalty: Examining the Role of Social Identity and Leadership in an Extreme Operational Environment—A Swedish Case	1
Something to Take Home: A Two-Wave Study of Work–Family Facilitation and Well-Being Among Brazilian Soldiers Prior to and During a Humanitarian Mission	1
Book Review: Military Sociology: A Guided Introduction by Wilbur J. Scott, Karin Modesto De Angelis, and David R. Segal	1
Do Elections Cause Military Spending to Go Up or Down? New International Evidence	1
Military-Connected Children With Special Health Care Needs and Their Families: A Literature Review	1
Hardships at Home: The Portrayal of Military Families in Traditional, Military Community, and Military-Focused News Publications	1
Air Power, International Organizations, and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan	1
Soldier Retention in the Indian Military: Unraveling the Role of Pay, Promotion and Job Satisfaction	1
Exploring Why Police and Military Commanders Do What They Do: An Empirical Analysis of Decision-Making in Hybrid Warfare	1
STEM Degrees and Military Service: An Intersectional Analysis	1
“A Hidden Community”: The Experiences of Help-Seeking and Receiving Mental Health Treatment in U.K. Women Veterans. A Qualitative Study	1
The Science of Charles C. Moskos: From Institution to Occupation	1
How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System	1
Killing in Combat as a Potentially Morally Injurious Event: The Diverging Psychological Impact of Killing on Peacekeepers and Combat-Oriented Troops	1
Civil–Military Relations and Russia’s Post-Soviet Military Culture: A Belief System Analysis	1
Domestic Military Deployments in Response to COVID-19	1
We (All) Want You? Perceived Military Leadership Potential and Actual Leadership Role Occupancy in Working Life: A Longitudinal Study of a Swedish Cohort	1
Military Professionalism, Power, and the Division of Labor: The Case of the Reintroduction of NCOs in the Swedish Armed Forces	1
What Do Successful Military-to-Civilian Transitions Look Like? A Revised Framework and a New Conceptual Model for Assessing Veteran Well-Being	1
LGB Service Members’ Relationship Status, Satisfaction, and Well-Being: A Brief Report	1
Gender Disparities in Active Duty Air Force Parents’ Childcare Access: Pre-Pandemic Costs, Utilization, and Career Impacts	1
Veterans Affairs Hospital Productivity Change and the Policy Implications: A Research Note	1
Sexual Misconduct, Civil–Military Relations, and the Canadian Armed Forces	1
Power Sharing and Coups d’état in Postconflict Settings: Evidence From Burundi and Guinea-Bissau	1
Risks and Fallacies of Expanding New Roles to the Military: The Case of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit; A Research Note	1