OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Security 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict	56
The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China's Next Decade	43
To Agree or Not to Agree: Hawks, Doves, and Regime Type in International Rivalry and Rapprochement	39
Summaries	39
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe	27
Quo Vadis, Russian Deterrence? Strategic Culture and Coercion Innovations	25
Keeping Pace with the Times: China's Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning	18
Conventional Deterrence of Nuclear Use	16
Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics	15
Correspondence: Debating U.S. Security Assistance	14
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia	13
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	12
Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers	12
Reining in Rebellion: The Decline of Political Violence in South America, 1830–1929	10
We All Fall Down: The Dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe	10
Blockade by Fire: China's Potential to Blockade Taiwan Using Missile Attacks on Ports	9
Editors' Note	9
Hedging on Hegemony: The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China	9
Summaries	9
The U.S.-China Military Balance in Space	8
Summaries	7
The Meddler's Trap: McKinley, the Philippines, and the Difficulty of Letting Go	7
U.S. Space Power and Alliance Dynamics in the Cold War	7
When Foreign Countries Push the Button	6
Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy	6

The Cost of Restraint: India's Divergent Responses to China and Pakistan as Nuclear Rivals	6
Stabilizing Civil Wars without Peacekeeping: Evidence from South Asia	6
Correspondence: Debating China's Use of Overseas Ports	6
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia	6
Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Balance of Power	5
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars: Why States Delegate Rebel Support to Conduit Countries	5
Reviewers for Volume 48	4
What Does China Want?	4
Foreign Intervention and Internal Displacement: Urban Politics in Postwar Beirut	4
Boom, Bling, Backbone, or Blip? The Signaling Inherent in Arms Transfers	4
Editors' Note	4
Escalate to Survive?: Nuclear First Use in Contemporary Great Power Conflict	3
The Path to Atonement: West Germany and Israel after the Holocaust	3
Racialization and International Security	3
Correspondence: Paradigms and Power	3
Technology, Behavior, and Effectiveness in Naval Warfare: The Battles of Savo Island and Cape Saint George	3
Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity	2
The Dynamics of an Entangled Security Dilemma: China's Changing Nuclear Posture	2
The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in China's International Crises	2
Competing Visions of Restraint	2
Push and Pull on the Periphery: Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics	1
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Clients Evade Patrons’ Costly Strategic Demands	1
Reviewers for Volume 47	1
Summaries	1
Summaries	1
Summaries	1
Summaries	1
The Belligerent Bear: Russia, Status Orders, and War	1
Words Matter: The Effect of Moral Language on International Bargaining	1
Access Denied? The Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia	1