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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	63
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	26
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	14
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting	12
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	11
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	11
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	11
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	10
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	9
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	9
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	9
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	9
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	7
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	6
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	6
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	5
Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5

Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	4
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	4
Credible Surrogates: Outsourcing US Foreign Policy Appeals	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	4
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	4
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	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
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	3
Explaining Command Style	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	2
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use	2
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	2
The Role of Law in Global Nuclear Politics: Opacity, Deflection, and Potential	2
Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone	2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
How Central is Race to International Relations?	2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century	1
Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	1
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	1
China and the Logic of Illiberal Hegemony	1
Correction	1
Strategy in the New Missile Age	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
Introduction: Law, Ethics, and Nuclear Weapons	1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1

Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
Political Polarization and Political Violence	1
Legitimacy and Hegemony in Late Imperial China	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1
Full-Spectrum Propaganda in the Social Media Era	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
Neorealism Out of the Comfort Zone: Haudenosaunee’s Adaptation to European Conquest	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1