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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Great-Power Competition Isn’t a Foreign Policy	20
Between Guilt and Responsibility: The Legacy of Spheres in Germany	17
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	14
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War	14
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	11
India-US Relations: Pakistan Re-emerges in Trump 2.0	10
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	10
Russia’s Foreign Policy After the Ukrainian Crisis	9
Will Putin Stop at Ukraine? That’s the Wrong Question	9
Taiwan: What Could, Should and Will Australia Do?	9
The Rise and Fall of South Korea’s 586 Generation: Implications for the US Alliance	9
Surprising Stability in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Since 2012	9
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	8
History’s Revenge: NATO’s Nuclear-Conventional Debate Returns	8
Protecting Undersea Cables and South Korea’s Role	8
Who Was Afraid of Russia? The Forgotten Evidence of the 1990s	8
Squaring the Circle on Spheres of Influence: The Overlooked Benefits	7
Transforming the Industrial Heartlands: a Transatlantic Initiative	7
The Devil’s in the Differences: Ukraine and a Taiwan Contingency	7
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance	7
Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam	6
Recalibrating the Five Eyes Alliance	6
Can the Iron Dome Be Transmuted into a Golden Dome?	6
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	5
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	5

A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	5
Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	4
A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	4
How to End a Military Intervention	4
Japan’s Nuclear Balance: Deterrence and Disarmament	4
Japan’s Taiwan Policy: Strategic Shift or Tactical Adaptation?	4
Ukraine and the End of Peacemaking	4
Can Armed Statebuilding Succeed in Ukraine, Gaza or Taiwan?	3
Modernizing US Indian Ocean Strategy	3
Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	3
Sino-Russian Splits: Divergences in Autocratic Coercion	3
Kabul and a Strategic Triangle	3
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	3
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability	3
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	3
Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications	3
The Next Chapter in US Nuclear Policy	3
America's Role in a Post-American Middle East	2
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	2
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	2
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	2
When Actions Match Words: Japan’s National Security Strategy at One Year	2
Starving Russia’s War Economy	2
Back to the Future: A Tripartite Framework for Resolving the Palestinian Issue	2
Economic Self-Reliance in a Leaderless World	2
A Potential Conflict over Taiwan: A View from India	2
The Real Challenge of China’s Nuclear Modernization	2
NATO’s China Role: Defending Cyber and Outer Space	2
A New Concert for Europe: Security and Order After the War	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
Recalibrating Arms Control for Emerging Technologies	2
China’s US-Driven Middle East Strategy	2
The Return of Crisis Diplomacy: Ukraine, Taiwan and Beyond	2
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	2
Nuclear Risks Rise as Great-Power Conflict Goes On	2
Tokyo’s Taiwan Conundrum: What Can Japan Do to Prevent War?	2
Emerging Technologies and Southern Asian Nuclear Deterrence	2
China’s America Policy: Back to the Future	2
Russia’s Drive for AI: Do Deeds Match the Words?	2
Does Ideology Explain Chinese Policy Today?	1
Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?	1
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy	1
Kishida the Accelerator: Japan's Defense Evolution After Abe	1
Small Modular Reactors: The Coming Wave of Nuclear Energy Competition	1
How Putin’s Regime Survivalism Drives Russian Aggression	1
Upsetting the Balance: Why Russia Chose Hamas over Israel	1
Are Proxy Wars Coming Back?	1
Legal, but Lethal: The Law of Armed Conflict and US Nuclear Strategy	1

On Targeted Killing and Warfare	1
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Belarus? Motivations and Consequences	1
Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine	1
How Putin Tore Up His Playbook for Victory	1
A US Strategy for Advancing EU Enlargement	1
Climate Change Could Rupture Sino-Russian Relations	1
Considering a US-Supported Self-Defense Option for Taiwan	1
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space	1
Merging Development and Diplomacy: What Might the US Learn?	1
Emerging Tech and the Israel-Iran Nuclear Relationship	1