OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Security 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	68
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	54
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	47
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	38
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	38
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	38
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	32
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	26
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	26
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	25
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	21
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	20
Expertise hubs and the credibility challenge for open-source intelligence: insights from usage patterns of a web-controlled radio receiver and related Twitter traffic in the Ukraine war	14
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	14
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	12
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	11
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	11
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	10
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	10
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	9
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	9
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	9
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	9
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	9
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	8

Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	8
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	8
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	7
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	7
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	7
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	7
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	7
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	7
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries	6
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	6
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention	6
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway	6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	6
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	6
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	6
Make room for me! A study of how climate change and environment landed on Spanish national security	5
Instrumentalisation of fear and securitisation of “Eastern Borders Route”: the case of Poland-Belarus “border crisis”	5
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”	5
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective	5
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	5
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?	4
Non-western influence operations in North Macedonia: a reason for concern or push towards the west?	4
The European Union's use of contractors in security and defence: blazing its own path of institutional change?	4
Cooperating tocontrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors	4
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	4
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	4
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries	4
Transactional hedging versus value-based hedging: how small frontline states balance between European integration and Russian influence	4
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	4
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022	3
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	3
Navigating the uncertainty of the modern environment: multi-domain operations for the defence of small states	3
Unpacking Normative Power Europe: EU promotion of security norm cluster in ASEAN	3
Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity	3
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	3
Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises	3
“You forgot Poland?” Polish involvement in the Iraq war and its aftermath through a postcolonial lens	3
The transnationalisation of military leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and EURO-Atlantic integration	3
“My trip to Europe is about America rallying the world’s democracies” and the elephant in NATO’s room	3
Contested statehood, complex sovereignty and the European Union's role in Kosovo	2
Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum	2
Explaining third-country participation in CSDP missions: the case of the association trio – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova	2
Free speech versus defence of the nation? The media as sources of national insecurity in Ukraine	2
Under the radar: Ireland, maritime security capacity, and the governance of subsea infrastructure	2
Navigating the storm: the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on EU’s quest for strategic autonomy	2
Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations	2

The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression	2
Bridging Copenhagen and Paris: how Hungarian police accept anti-immigrant discourse	2