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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	36
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	26
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	16
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	15
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	14
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	13
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	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
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	11
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	10
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	10
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	7
Oil and War: An Exchange	7
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	7
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	6
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	6
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	6
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	6
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5

Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	5
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	5
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	5
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
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
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	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 Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3