OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Studies is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Peacemakers or Iron Ladies? A Cross-National Study of Gender and International Conflict	21
Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel	17
Questioning More: RT, Outward-Facing Propaganda, and the Post-West World Order	17
The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict	11
The Influence of Sea Power on Politics: Domain- and Platform-Specific Attributes of Material Capabilities	9
Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence	8
Channeling Contraband: How States Shape International Smuggling Routes	8
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	7
Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age	7
Trivial Tripwires?: Military Capabilities and Alliance Reassurance	6
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	6
Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology	6
Partnership in Leadership: Why and How Do Leading Powers Extend Managerial Privileges to Junior Partners?	5
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Comparing the Study of International Security Across Journals	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI	5
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	5
Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland	5
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	5
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	5
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars	4
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	4
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	4
Strategies of Extended Deterrence: How States Provide the Security Umbrella	3
Conceptualizing Civil War Complexity	3

US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	3
The Effect of Aerial Bombardment on Insurgent Civilian Victimization	3
Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil–Interstate War Linkage	3
Nationalism, Threat, and Support for External Intervention: Evidence from Iraq	3
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	3
The Price of Protection: Explaining Success and Failure of US Alliance Burden-Sharing Pressure	3
Primacy and Punishment: US Grand Strategy, Maritime Power, and Military Options to Manage Decline	3
The Obama Administration and Syrian Chemical Weapons: Deterrence, Compellence, and the Limits of the “Resolve plus Bombs” Formula	3
All-In or All-Out: Why Insularity Pushes and Pulls American Grand Strategy to Extremes	2
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	2
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	2
Clashes at Sea: Explaining the Onset, Militarization, and Resolution of Diplomatic Maritime Claims	2
Strategic Intelligence and International Crisis Behavior	2
The Efficacy of Airpower in Counterinsurgency	2
The Durability of a Unipolar System: Lessons from East Asian History	2
Explaining Divergent Trends in Coups and Mutinies: The End of the Cold War and the Role of Military Agency	2
Rebels against Mines? Legitimacy and Restraint on Landmine Use in the Philippines	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Who Blinked? Performing Resolve (or Lack Thereof) in Face-to-Face Diplomacy	2
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	2
The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition	2
Desert Shield of the Republic? A Realist Case for Abandoning the Middle East	2
Statement from the New Editor in Chief	2
Terror after the Caliphate: The Effect of ISIS Loss of Control over Population Centers on Patterns of Global Terrorism	2
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors	2
Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great-Power Competition	2
Perceptions of Leadership Importance: Evidence from the CIA’s President’s Daily Brief	2
Social Origins of Modern Terrorism, 1860–1945	2