OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Security 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	59
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	49
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	46
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	35
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	35
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	34
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	30
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	26
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	26
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	22
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	19
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	19
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	13
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	12
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	11
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	11
Europe as a geoeconomic pivot: geography and the limits of US economic containment of China	11
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	10
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	9
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	9
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	9
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	9
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	8
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	8
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	7
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	7
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	7
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	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	6
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries	6
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	6
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	6
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	6
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?	6
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	6
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	6
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”	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
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?	5
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective	5
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway	5
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries	5
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	5
Cooperating tocontrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors	4
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	4
Strategic European counterterrorism? An empirical analysis	4
Transactional hedging versus value-based hedging: how small frontline states balance between European integration and Russian influence	4
The European Union's use of contractors in security and defence: blazing its own path of institutional change?	4
Non-western influence operations in North Macedonia: a reason for concern or push towards the west?	4
Unpacking Normative Power Europe: EU promotion of security norm cluster in ASEAN	4
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership	3
“You forgot Poland?” Polish involvement in the Iraq war and its aftermath through a postcolonial lens	3
Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises	3
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?	3
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	3
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia	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	3
Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity	3
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022	3
Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations	3
The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression	3