OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Security is 6. 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
Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers	12
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	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