OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Interactions 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	29
A price for peace: troop contributing countries’ responses to peacekeeper fatalities	28
Introduction: promoting restraint in war	19
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	17
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	14
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	12
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	12
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	10
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	10
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	9
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	9
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	8
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	8
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	7
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	7
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	7
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	7
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	6
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	6
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	6
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	6
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	6
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	6
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	5
Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	5

Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	5
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	5
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	5
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	4
Domestic politics and requests for UNESCO’s international assistance program	4
Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	4
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	4
International Interactions best paper award 2022	4
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	4
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	4
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	4
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	4
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Can’t Live with Them or Can’t Live without Them? How Varying Roles of Women in Rebel Groups Influence One-Sided Violence	4
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	4
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	3
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	3
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	3
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	3
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (TOTOS) dataset	3
Peaceful dyads: A territorial perspective	3
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	3
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	3
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	3
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
International Interactions best paper award 2020	3
The International Committee of the Red Cross and support for civilian self-protection in Colombia	3
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	3
IMF: International Migration Fund	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	3
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	3
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
Leader visits and nuclear pursuit	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession	2
Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	2
Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics	2
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	2
Agents of peace or enablers of violence? The proximal effects of mediators in international disputes	2
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	2
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	2
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	2
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	2
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	2
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2

Banditry or business? Rebel labor markets and state economic intervention	2
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
Beyond Threats: How Allies and Bureaucratic Competition Shape the Initial Development of Military Cyber Capabilities	2
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	2
Human trafficking indicators: A new dataset	2
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach	2
Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings	1
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	1
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	1
Rewards versus Sanctions in International Relations: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bluffing	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
The Strong, the Weak, and the Honored: Examining the decline in honored alliances post-1945	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Cyber Conflict & Domestic Audience Costs	1
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	1
Correction	1
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	1
Making sense of violence in semi-technologized conventional civil war: Evidence from nineteenth-century Japan	1
Release or Repress? The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Capital Account Openness	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	1
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	1