OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Security is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict	50
The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China's Next Decade	37
Summaries	37
Keeping Pace with the Times: China's Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning	33
Conventional Deterrence of Nuclear Use	25
To Agree or Not to Agree: Hawks, Doves, and Regime Type in International Rivalry and Rapprochement	24
Quo Vadis, Russian Deterrence? Strategic Culture and Coercion Innovations	17
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe	15
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia	12
Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics	12
Correspondence: Debating U.S. Security Assistance	12
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	11
Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers	10
Reining in Rebellion: The Decline of Political Violence in South America, 1830–1929	8
Summaries	8
We All Fall Down: The Dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe	8
Editors' Note	7
U.S. Space Power and Alliance Dynamics in the Cold War	7
Hedging on Hegemony: The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China	7
Correspondence: Debating China's Use of Overseas Ports	6
Stabilizing Civil Wars without Peacekeeping: Evidence from South Asia	6
The Meddler's Trap: McKinley, the Philippines, and the Difficulty of Letting Go	6
The U.S.-China Military Balance in Space	6
When Foreign Countries Push the Button	6
Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy	5

Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Balance of Power	5
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia	5
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars: Why States Delegate Rebel Support to Conduit Countries	4
What Does China Want?	4
Boom, Bling, Backbone, or Blip? The Signaling Inherent in Arms Transfers	4
Racialization and International Security	3
Technology, Behavior, and Effectiveness in Naval Warfare: The Battles of Savo Island and Cape Saint George	3
Foreign Intervention and Internal Displacement: Urban Politics in Postwar Beirut	3
The Dynamics of an Entangled Security Dilemma: China's Changing Nuclear Posture	3
The Path to Atonement: West Germany and Israel after the Holocaust	3
Editors' Note	3
Competing Visions of Restraint	3
Reviewers for Volume 48	3
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Clients Evade Patrons’ Costly Strategic Demands	2
The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in China's International Crises	2
Push and Pull on the Periphery: Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics	2
Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity	2