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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	22
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	17
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	15
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	12
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	12
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	10
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	10
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	9
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	9
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	8
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	8
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	7
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	7
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	7
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	7
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	6
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
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	5
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	5
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	5

Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	5
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	4
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	4
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	4
International Interactions best paper award 2022	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	4
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	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
Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	4
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	4
Domestic politics and requests for UNESCO’s international assistance program	4
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	4
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	4
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	3
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	3
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	3
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	3
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	3
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	3
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	3
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	3
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	3
Peaceful dyads: A territorial perspective	3
IMF: International Migration Fund	3
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	2
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (TOTOS) 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
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
Banditry or business? Rebel labor markets and state economic intervention	2
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	2
Leader visits and nuclear pursuit	2
Human trafficking indicators: A new dataset	2
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	2
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	2
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach	2
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	2
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession	2
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
International Interactions best paper award 2020	2
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2

Agents of peace or enablers of violence? The proximal effects of mediators in international disputes	2
Beyond Threats: How Allies and Bureaucratic Competition Shape the Initial Development of Military Cyber Capabilities	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	1
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Correction	1
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	1
Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	1
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	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
Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	1
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	1
Cyber Conflict & Domestic Audience Costs	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	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
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	1