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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Befuddled: How America Can Get Its Voice Back	14
Pushing on an Open Door: Japan’s Evolutionary Security Posture	14
A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	13
The Rocky Future of the US-Israeli Special Relationship	10
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space	10
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	9
China’s Economic Statecraft: Lessons Learned from Ukraine	9
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	6
On Targeted Killing and Warfare	6
Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	5
Orienting the 2021 Nuclear Posture Review	5
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	5
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	5
How to Defend Taiwan: Leading with Economic Warfare	5
Great-Power Competition Isn’t a Foreign Policy	4
Changing the Kremlin’s Election Interference Calculus	4
The Roots and Resilience of Pro-Americanism in the Baltics	4
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	4
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	4
Cyber Offense and a Changing Strategic Paradigm	4
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	4
Why the United States Is Losing—And Russia and Iran Are Winning	3
So, Is Russia Fascist Now? Labels and Policy Implications	3
The Return of Crisis Diplomacy: Ukraine, Taiwan and Beyond	3
How Autocrats Manipulate Online Information: Putin’s and Xi’s Playbooks	3

US-China Rivalry and Japan’s Strategic Role	3
Kishida the Accelerator: Japan's Defense Evolution After Abe	3
Between Guilt and Responsibility: The Legacy of Spheres in Germany	3
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	3
Mind the Gaps: Reading South Korea’s Emergent Proliferation Strategy	3
Emerging Tech and the Israel-Iran Nuclear Relationship	2
The Geopolitics of the Rare-Metals Race	2
How to End a Military Intervention	2
India’s Radical Reimagination: No More Bandwagoning, for Real	2
A New Concert for Europe: Security and Order After the War	2
Lessons in Sanctions-Proofing from Russia	2
China’s US-Driven Middle East Strategy	2
Have We Passed the Peak of Sino-Russian Rapprochement?	2
Is the Chinese Communist Party Ready for the Future?	2
A Model Alliance? The Strategic Logic of US-Australia Cooperation	2
America's Role in a Post-American Middle East	2
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	2
Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine	2
Lessons Learned from Afghanistan: The First Political Order	2
Updating Dollar Diplomacy: Leading on Digital Currency Standards	2
Will Japan Have the Political Resolve to Use Counterstrike?	2
Is Non-Nuclearization Sustainable? Explaining South Korea’s Strategic Choices	1
Japan’s New Economic Statecraft	1
The Strategic Implications of the Evolving US-China Nuclear Balance	1
Does Ideology Explain Chinese Policy Today?	1
Hong Kong: Exporting International Law with Chinese Characteristics	1
Upsetting the Balance: Why Russia Chose Hamas over Israel	1
Tokyo’s Taiwan Conundrum: What Can Japan Do to Prevent War?	1
All About Access: Solving America’s Force Posture Puzzle	1
Burden Sharing for What? NATO Implications of Three US Visions	1
From Affirmative to Assertive Patriots: Nationalism in Xi Jinping’s China	1
The Real Challenge of China’s Nuclear Modernization	1
Economic Self-Reliance in a Leaderless World	1
India’s A La Carte Minilateralism: AUKUS and the Quad	1
When Actions Match Words: Japan’s National Security Strategy at One Year	1
Russia in the Era of Great Power Competition	1
Getting ASEAN Right in US Indo-Pacific Strategy	1
The Road Not Yet Taken: Regionalizing US Policy Toward Russia	1
Japan’s Emerging Security Strategy	1
Taiwan: What Could, Should and Will Australia Do?	1
Are Proxy Wars Coming Back?	1
China: Revolutionary or Revisionist?	1
How Putin Tore Up His Playbook for Victory	1
How to Distance Russia from China	1
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	1
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy	1
A Potential Conflict over Taiwan: A View from India	1