OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Strategic Studies 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime	27
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	24
Andrew Marshall and net assessment	21
From the editors	18
From the editors	17
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability	16
From the editors	15
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	12
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	11
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	9
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	9
Red lines: Enforcement, declaration, and ambiguity in the Cuban Missile Crisis	9
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	8
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	8
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	8
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War	8
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway	8
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	7
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	7
Tracking mobile missiles	6
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
From the editors	6
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	6
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	5
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay	5

The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	5
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	4
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	4
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	4
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others	4
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	4
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	4
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	4
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	4
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy	4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	3
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
Is India underbalancing China?	3
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace	3
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	2
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	2
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	2
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War	2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	2
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	2
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	2
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	2
What is a military innovation and why it matters	2
Will inter-state war take place in cities?	2
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan	2
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	2
From the editors	2
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War	2
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy	2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
From the editors	2
The difficult politics of peace: Rivalry in modern South AsiaReview of Christopher Clary, The difficult politics of peace: Rivalry in modern South Asia , New York, Oxfor	2
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	2
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring	1
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?	1
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-2003	1
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1

Why definitions matter: Victory, security, and the strategy gap	1
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance	1
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	1
Routes to reform: Civil–military relations and democracy in the third wave Routes to reform: Civil–military relations and democracy in the third wave , by David Kuehn an	1
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11	1
From the editors	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses	1
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare	1
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions	1
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	1
Narratives of victory: Obama, killing bin Laden, and the 2012 election	1
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	1
Don’t judge islands by their sizes: The role of remote Japanese islands in the regional military balance	1
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	1
Patron problems: Local sovereignty, limited leverage, and tough tradeoffs in U.S. Intervention strategies in Vietnam and Iraq	1
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
Understanding battlefield coalitions	1
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst	1
Introduction to the special issue	1
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement	1
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	1
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age	1
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	1
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action	1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	1
Correction	1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought	1