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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
China's Grand Strategy under Xi Jinping: Reassurance, Reform, and Resistance	44
Paradoxes of Professionalism: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States	37
Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back	37
The Stopping Power of Norms: Saturation Bombing, Civilian Immunity, and U.S. Attitudes toward the Laws of War	29
Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19	27
The Political Power of Proxies: Why Nonstate Actors Use Local Surrogates	27
Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy	26
The Subversive Trilemma: Why Cyber Operations Fall Short of Expectations	19
PRC Assertiveness in the South China Sea: Measuring Continuity and Change, 1970–2015	16
Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War: The Enduring Hider-Finder Competition in Air Warfare	13
Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War	13
White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States	11
Noncombat Participation in Rebellion: A Gendered Typology	10
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity	10
What Allies Want: Reconsidering Loyalty, Reliability, and Alliance Interdependence	10
Conventional Counterforce Dilemmas: South Korea's Deterrence Strategy and Stability on the Korean Peninsula	9
Pier Competitor: China's Power Position in Global Ports	8
Cheater's Dilemma: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Path to War	8
The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy in U.S. Nuclear Doctrine	7
Caught Red-Handed: How States Wield Proof to Coerce Wrongdoers	7
To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States	7
Then What? Assessing the Military Implications of Chinese Control of Taiwan	7
Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity	7
Soldiers' Dilemma: Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conflict	6
Selective Wilsonianism: Material Interests and the West's Support for Democracy	6

The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990: New Light on an Old Problem?	6
Insurgent Armies: Military Obedience and State Formation after Rebel Victory	6
Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers	5
Water and Warfare: The Evolution and Operation of the Water Taboo	5
Elite Competition, Social Movements, and Election Violence in Nigeria	5
Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate	5
Why Rebels Stop Fighting: Organizational Decline and Desertion in Colombia's Insurgency	5
Defending the United States: Revisiting National Missile Defense against North Korea	5
The Case for Campaign Analysis: A Method for Studying Military Operations	3
“Wars without Gun Smoke”: Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft	3
When Do Ideological Enemies Ally?	3
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	3
Assessing China-U.S. Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation	3
Death Dust: The Little-Known Story of U.S. and Soviet Pursuit of Radiological Weapons	3
The Dynamics of an Entangled Security Dilemma: China's Changing Nuclear Posture	2
Wartime Commercial Policy and Trade between Enemies	2
Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness	2
The Belligerent Bear: Russia, Status Orders, and War	2
Nowhere to Hide? Global Policing and the Politics of Extradition	2
Strategic Substitution: China's Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age	2
Partnership or Predation? How Rising States Contend with Declining Great Powers	2
How Much Risk Should the United States Run in the South China Sea?	2
The Power of Putin in Russian Foreign Policy	2
Decline and Disintegration: National Status Loss and Domestic Conflict in Post-Disaster Spain	2
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars: Why States Delegate Rebel Support to Conduit Countries	2
The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship	2