OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Washington Quarterly 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
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	23
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War	22
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	14
Germany’s Nuclear Aspirations and Strategic Compromise	13
India-US Relations: Pakistan Re-emerges in Trump 2.0	12
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	11
Russia’s Foreign Policy After the Ukrainian Crisis	10
Will Putin Stop at Ukraine? That’s the Wrong Question	10
French Nuclear Ambiguity at a Crossroads	10
Protecting Undersea Cables and South Korea’s Role	10
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	9
The Devil’s in the Differences: Ukraine and a Taiwan Contingency	9
Who Was Afraid of Russia? The Forgotten Evidence of the 1990s	9
History’s Revenge: NATO’s Nuclear-Conventional Debate Returns	9
Surprising Stability in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Since 2012	9
Thinking the Unthinkable: South Korea as a US Nuclear Ally?	8
Can the Iron Dome Be Transmuted into a Golden Dome?	7
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance	7
Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam	7
Recalibrating the Five Eyes Alliance	6
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	6
Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	6
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	6
Japan’s Taiwan Policy: Strategic Shift or Tactical Adaptation?	5
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	5

How to End a Military Intervention	5
Ukraine and the End of Peacemaking	5
A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	5
The Real US Energy Security Problem—And How to Fix It	4
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	4
Japan’s Nuclear Balance: Deterrence and Disarmament	4
The Cassandra Trap: How Beijing Could Come to Doubt Its Own Digital Oracles	3
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	3
Enduring Constraints on China’s Influence in Southeast Asia	3
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability	3
Modernizing US Indian Ocean Strategy	3
Nuclear Risks Rise as Great-Power Conflict Goes On	3
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	3
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	3
Reshaping Strategic Flexibility in the ROK-US Alliance	3
Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications	3
The Next Chapter in US Nuclear Policy	3
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	3
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	3
Can Armed Statebuilding Succeed in Ukraine, Gaza or Taiwan?	3
Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	3
A New Concert for Europe: Security and Order After the War	2
China’s US-Driven Middle East Strategy	2
Starving Russia’s War Economy	2
China’s America Policy: Back to the Future	2
Emerging Technologies and Southern Asian Nuclear Deterrence	2
When Actions Match Words: Japan’s National Security Strategy at One Year	2
A Neglected Region? The Strategic Value of the South Atlantic	2
Is There an American Way of War? Why the Answer Must Be No	2
China’s Strategic Calculus: It’s Not Just About Economics	2
How Putin’s Regime Survivalism Drives Russian Aggression	2
The Return of Crisis Diplomacy: Ukraine, Taiwan and Beyond	2
The Real Challenge of China’s Nuclear Modernization	2
Economic Self-Reliance in a Leaderless World	2
Back to the Future: A Tripartite Framework for Resolving the Palestinian Issue	2
The Elusive Consensus: Diverging US Views on Competition against China	2
Six Options for Israel in Gaza	1
Climate Change Could Rupture Sino-Russian Relations	1
Upsetting the Balance: Why Russia Chose Hamas over Israel	1
A US Strategy for Advancing EU Enlargement	1
Emerging Tech and the Israel-Iran Nuclear Relationship	1
Considering a US-Supported Self-Defense Option for Taiwan	1
Russia’s Drive for AI: Do Deeds Match the Words?	1
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space	1
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy	1
Defending Taiwan: But … What Are the Costs?	1
European Strategic Autonomy: The Path to a Geopolitical Europe	1
Africa’s Wars on Women	1
Are Proxy Wars Coming Back?	1
On Targeted Killing and Warfare	1

Recalibrating Arms Control for Emerging Technologies	1
Merging Development and Diplomacy: What Might the US Learn?	1
Does Ideology Explain Chinese Policy Today?	1
America’s Advantages: Contending with China’s Tech Rise	1
Beijing’s Banking Balloon: China’s Core Economic Challenge in the New Era	1
Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?	1
Race to the Bottom: The Growing Contest for Subsea Territory and Resources	1
Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine	1
Kishida the Accelerator: Japan's Defense Evolution After Abe	1
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Belarus? Motivations and Consequences	1
How Putin Tore Up His Playbook for Victory	1
Small Modular Reactors: The Coming Wave of Nuclear Energy Competition	1