OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Interactions 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	27
Introduction: promoting restraint in war	26
A price for peace: troop contributing countries’ responses to peacekeeper fatalities	16
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	15
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	12
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	11
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	11
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	10
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	9
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	9
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	8
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	7
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	7
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	7
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	7
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	6
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	6
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	5
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	5
Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	5
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	5
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	5
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	5
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	5
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	5

Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	5
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	4
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	4
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	4
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	4
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	4
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	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
IMF: International Migration Fund	3
Peaceful dyads: A territorial perspective	3
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	3
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	3
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	3
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	3
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	3
Can’t Live with Them or Can’t Live without Them? How Varying Roles of Women in Rebel Groups Influence One-Sided Violence	3
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	3
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	3
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	3
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	3
International Interactions best paper award 2022	3