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

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	41
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	38
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	21
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	18
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	15
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	14
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	12
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	11
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	11
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	10
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	9
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	9
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	8
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	8
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	7
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	7
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	6
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	6

Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
The Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange	3
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	3
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	3
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	2
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
How Central is Race to International Relations?	2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	2
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	2
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	1
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1
China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	1
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	1
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Correction	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1

Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics	1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1