OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Washington Quarterly is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Great-Power Competition Isn’t a Foreign Policy	20
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	17
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	14
Between Guilt and Responsibility: The Legacy of Spheres in Germany	12
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	11
How to Defend Taiwan: Leading with Economic Warfare	11
The Strategic Implications of the Evolving US-China Nuclear Balance	11
Taiwan: What Could, Should and Will Australia Do?	8
How to Distance Russia from China	8
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	7
The Rise and Fall of South Korea’s 586 Generation: Implications for the US Alliance	7
Will Putin Stop at Ukraine? That’s the Wrong Question	7
History’s Revenge: NATO’s Nuclear-Conventional Debate Returns	7
Squaring the Circle on Spheres of Influence: The Overlooked Benefits	6
Transforming the Industrial Heartlands: a Transatlantic Initiative	6
The Devil’s in the Differences: Ukraine and a Taiwan Contingency	6
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance	6
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	5
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	5
A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	5
Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	5
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	5
Sino-Russian Splits: Divergences in Autocratic Coercion	4
Can Armed Statebuilding Succeed in Ukraine, Gaza or Taiwan?	4
How to End a Military Intervention	4

Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	4
Kabul and a Strategic Triangle	4
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability	4
Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications	4
Modernizing US Indian Ocean Strategy	4
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	4
Nuclear Risks Rise as Great-Power Conflict Goes On	3
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	3
Bipolarity is Back: Why It Matters	3
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	3
NATO’s China Role: Defending Cyber and Outer Space	3
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	3
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	3
The Next Chapter in US Nuclear Policy	3
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	3