OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Security Studies 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
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	42
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	41
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	23
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	20
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	16
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	13
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	11
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	11
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	11
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	10
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	10
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	10
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	9
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	7
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	6
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5

Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	3
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	3
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
How Central is Race to International Relations?	3
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	3
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	2
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	2
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	2
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1
Correction	1
“Nothing Short of Murder”: How Leaders Can Diminish Military Capacities	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Correction	1
Legitimacy and Hegemony in Late Imperial China	1
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1

Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics