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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Publicly attributing cyber attacks: a framework	29
Delegating strategic decision-making to machines: Dr. Strangelove Redux?	19
Loyalty, hedging, or exit: How weaker alliance partners respond to the rise of new threats	14
Russian nuclear strategy and conventional inferiority	13
Defence innovation and the 4^thindustrial revolution in Russia	11
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	11
Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992	10
The sixth RMA wave: Disruption in Military Affairs?	10
Politics by many other means: The comparative strategic advantages of operational domains	10
Artificial intelligence in China’s revolution in military affairs	9
Mutually assured surveillance at risk: Anti-satellite weapons and cold war arms control	9
What is a military innovation and why it matters	9
Pulled East. The rise of China, Europe and French security policy in the Asia-Pacific	8
‘Catalytic nuclear war’ in the age of artificial intelligence & autonomy: Emerging military technology and escalation risk between nuclear-armed states	8
Are they reading Schelling in Beijing? The dimensions, drivers, and risks of nuclear-conventional entanglement in China	7
A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group	7
The forever-emerging norm of banning nuclear weapons	7
Seizing the commanding heights: the PLA Strategic Support Force in Chinese military power	6
From closed to open systems: How the US military services pursue innovation	6
Understanding battlefield coalitions	6
Deterrence by denial in cyberspace	6
Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc	6
A conceptual framework of defence innovation	6
An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership	5
Small states and autonomous systems - the Scandinavian case	5

‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995	5
The art of net assessment and uncovering foreign military innovations: Learning from Andrew W. Marshall’s legacy	5
Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore	4
The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge	4
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action	4
Explaining China’s large-scale land reclamation in the South China Sea: Timing and rationale	4
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace	4
Military adaptation and organisational convergence in war: Insurgents and international forces in Afghanistan	3
NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations	3
Helping or hurting? The impact of foreign fighters on militant group behavior	3
China’s military strategy for a ‘new era’: Some change, more continuity, and tantalizing hints	3
‘The special service squadron of the Royal Marines’: The Royal Navy and organic amphibious warfare capability before 1914	3
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	3
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay	3
Technology is awesome, but so what?! Exploring the relevance of technologically inspired awe to the construction of military theories	3
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan	3
4IR technologies in the Israel Defence Forces: blurring traditional boundaries	3
Signalling capacity and crisis diplomacy: Explaining the failure of ‘maximum pressure’ in the 2017 U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis	3
The shift to defence in Israel’s hybrid military strategy	3
The strategic and realist perspectives: An ambiguous relationship	3
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-2003	2
The currency of covert action: British special political action in Latin America, 1961-64	2
Why Israel launched a preventive military strike on Iraq’s nuclear weapons program (1981): The fungibility of power resources	2
Looking back to look forward: Autonomous systems, military revolutions, and the importance of cost	2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	2
Defense innovation in Russia in the 2010s	2
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions	2
The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement	2
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: Foreign absorption and domestic innovation	2
Will inter-state war take place in cities?	2
‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashion	2
The meaning of China’s nuclear modernization	2
Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s	2
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring	2
Not so disruptive after all: The 4IR, navies and the search for sea control	2
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	2
Towards control and effectiveness: The Ministry of Defence and civil-military relations in India	2
The Abbottabad raid and the theory of special operations	2
Montesquieu: Strategist ahead of his time	2
Mobilizing patriotic consumers: China’s new strategy of economic coercion	1
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
Michael Howard and Clausewitz	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1
Russia’s strategy towards the Nordic region: Tracing continuity and change	1
Fortuna , chance, risk and opportunity in strategy from Antiquity to the Nuclear Age	1
Nuclear divergence between Britain and the United States: SDI and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty	1
When the coalition determines the mission: NATO’s detour in Libya	1
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	1
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises	1
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1

From the editors	1
‘My task is to get into the French army’: Soviet strategy and the origins of Soviet-French military cooperation in the 1930s	1
Here there be dragons? Chinese submarine options in the Arctic	1
A Swiss “Columbus” in Clausewitz’s homeland: How the works of Antoine-Henri de Jomini were received by the Prussian military before 1848	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy	1
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	1
The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
How the Russian army changed its concept of war, 1993–2022	1
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War	1
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime	1