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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effect of Aerial Bombardment on Insurgent Civilian Victimization	31
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	20
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	13
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	12
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	12
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	11
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	11
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	10
The Bomb as God: A Metaphor that Impedes Nuclear Disarmament	9
Rebels against Mines? Legitimacy and Restraint on Landmine Use in the Philippines	9
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	8
Accommodative Signaling in Cyberspace and the Role of Risk	8
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	7
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	7
Escaping Paralysis: Strategies for Countering Asymmetric Nuclear Escalation	7
Social Origins of Terrorism: An Exchange – The Author Replies	6
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	5
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	5
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	5
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	5
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	5
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	5
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	5
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	5
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5

Waltz with Me: Structural Realism and Structural Racism in International Politics	5
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	5
The Disadvantage of Nuclear Superiority	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	4
Evolution under Anarchy	4
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	4
The Non-Trivial Accomplishments of Counterterrorists	4
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	3
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	3
To Buy a War but Sell the Peace? Mercenaries and Post-Civil War Stability	3
Brazil’s Foreign Policy and Security under Lula and Bolsonaro: Hierarchy, Racialization, and Diplomacy	3
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	3
Revolutionary Governments, Recklessness, and War: The Case of the Second Karabakh War	3