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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	70
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	29
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	17
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	16
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting	16
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	12
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	12
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	11
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	11
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	10
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	10
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	9
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	9
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy	8
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	7
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	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
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	6
Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States	6
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	6
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5

Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Minding the Commitment Gap: Alliance Reassurance and the Image of the Imperial Presidency	5
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Credible Surrogates: Outsourcing US Foreign Policy Appeals	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Explaining Command Style	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Revisiting the Effectiveness of Nuclear Compellent Threats	3
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	2
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	2
How Central is Race to International Relations?	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	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
How Does International Recognition of Governments Shape Post-Electoral Conflicts of Legitimacy?	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	2
The Role of Law in Global Nuclear Politics: Opacity, Deflection, and Potential	2
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	2
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	2
Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
Introduction: Law, Ethics, and Nuclear Weapons	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1
The Many Faces of Credibility: Hawks, Doves, and Nuclear Disarmament	1
China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century	1
Legitimacy and Hegemony in Late Imperial China	1
Full-Spectrum Propaganda in the Social Media Era	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Cuba’s Missile Crisis and the Logic of National Martyrdom	1
Terrorism as Modernization?	1
China and the Logic of Illiberal Hegemony	1
Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics	1

Correction	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Neorealism Out of the Comfort Zone: Haudenosaunee’s Adaptation to European Conquest	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
Border Barriers and Local Armed Conflicts	1
Political Polarization and Political Violence	1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
Strategy in the New Missile Age	1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1