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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy	81
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	62
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	57
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	43
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	43
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	41
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	31
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	30
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	28
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	27
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	24
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	18
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	17
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	15
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship	12
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	12
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	12
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country	11
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	11
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	11
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	11
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	10
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	10
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	10

Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	10
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	9
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	9
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	9
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	9
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	9
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	8
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	8
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	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
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	6
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention	6
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”	5
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?	5
The European Union’s missing voice: member states’ forum shopping in military AI governance	5
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	5
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway	5
Make room for me! A study of how climate change and environment landed on Spanish national security	5
A boundary-based framework for analysing cross-sector cooperation in societal security – Svalbard case studies	5
Instrumentalisation of fear and securitisation of “Eastern Borders Route”: the case of Poland-Belarus “border crisis”	5
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	5
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries	5
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective	5
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	5
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
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	4
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	4
Cooperating tocontrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors	4
Transactional hedging versus value-based hedging: how small frontline states balance between European integration and Russian influence	4
Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity	3
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	3
Influence of the Russia–Ukraine war on security discourse of Baltic presidents	3
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022	3
The transnationalisation of military leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and EURO-Atlantic integration	3
“You forgot Poland?” Polish involvement in the Iraq war and its aftermath through a postcolonial lens	3
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	2
Under the radar: Ireland, maritime security capacity, and the governance of subsea infrastructure	2
The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression	2
Contested statehood, complex sovereignty and the European Union's role in Kosovo	2
Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises	2
Navigating the uncertainty of the modern environment: multi-domain operations for the defence of small states	2
Whose “drone revolution”? Expert-media gaps in perceptions of drone warfare	2
Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations	2
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	2
“My trip to Europe is about America rallying the world’s democracies” and the elephant in NATO’s room	2

Free speech versus defence of the nation? The media as sources of national insecurity in Ukraine	2
Wartime solidarity and sense of belonging to Europe: public support for military aid to NATO allies under attack	2