OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	38
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	29
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	21
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	18
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	15
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	14
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	14
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	11
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	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	10
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
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Oil and War: An Exchange	8
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	8
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	7
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	6
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	6
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
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
The Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange	3
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA	3
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	3