OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Interactions is 4. 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
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	13
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	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
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	9
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	9
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	8
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	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
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
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