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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	30
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	30
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	25
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	17
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	16
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	13
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	13
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	12
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	10
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	9
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	9
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	8
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	8
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	7
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	7
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	7
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	7
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	7
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	6
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	6
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	6
Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	6
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	6
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	5
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	5

Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	5
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	5
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	5
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	5
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	5
Domestic politics and requests for UNESCO’s international assistance program	4
International Interactions best paper award 2022	4
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	4
IMF: International Migration Fund	4
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	4
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	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
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	4
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	4
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	4
Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	4
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	4
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	4
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	4
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	4
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	4
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	3
Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics	3
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	3
International Interactions best paper award 2020	3
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	3
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (TOTOS) dataset	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
Rights violations and international public opinion	3
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	3
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	3
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	2
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	2
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	2
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	2
Leader visits and nuclear pursuit	2
Beyond Threats: How Allies and Bureaucratic Competition Shape the Initial Development of Military Cyber Capabilities	2
Learning from betrayal: How do lessons from the past shape future alliance treaty designs?	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	2
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession	2

Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	2
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	2
When international meets domestic: The interactive effect of domestic and international election observers	2
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Pandemic Pass? Treaty Derogations and Human Rights Practices During COVID-19	1
Rewards versus Sanctions in International Relations: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bluffing	1
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	1
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	1
Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	1
Release or Repress? The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Capital Account Openness	1
Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
Correction	1
Cyber Conflict & Domestic Audience Costs	1
The micro-dynamics of conflict and peace: Evidence from Colombia	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings	1
The Strong, the Weak, and the Honored: Examining the decline in honored alliances post-1945	1
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	1
Blame Games in Cyberspace: How Foreign Cues Shape Public Opinion on Cyber Attribution and Retribution	1
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Making sense of violence in semi-technologized conventional civil war: Evidence from nineteenth-century Japan	1