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

Article	Citations
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century	48
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity	39
It’s not EU, it’s we: ontological stress and French narration of the uprisings in Tunisia	35
“Assess in advance, control where required”. Risk, privatisation and data in EU customs security	32
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	27
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	27
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia	24
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	24
(Not) Coming of age? Unpacking the European Union’s quest for strategic autonomy in security and defence	23
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	22
Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union	20
Balancing between Russia and the West: the hard security choice of Armenia	17
Militarising gender: a (contrapuntal) reading of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) applications in EU-Tunisian security assemblages	17
Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations	15
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	15
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	14
Prevention of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation in Sweden: a sociological institutional perspective on development and change	14
Beyond the “lowest common denominator”? Mutually binding commitments in European security and defence cooperation: the case of the Nordic states	14
Jacob Kipp (1942–2021)	13
“My trip to Europe is about America rallying the world’s democracies” and the elephant in NATO’s room	12
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	12
The EU’s longer arm abroad: the role of EU Delegations in crisis management	10
From across the globe: understanding the motivations of pro-Ukraine foreign fighters	8
Technology transfer and defence sector dynamics: the case of the Netherlands	8
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	8

Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”	7
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	7
It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours	6
Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain	6
Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity	6
Instrumentalisation of fear and securitisation of “Eastern Borders Route”: the case of Poland-Belarus “border crisis”	6
Politicising European counter-terrorism: the role of NGOs	6
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway	6
From the “laboratory” to the “arena”: the EU’s quest for maturity and the instrumentalisation of conflict in Africa	5
An Arctic security dilemma: assessing and mitigating the risk of unintended armed conflict in the High North	5
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	5
The European Union’s securitisation of global health: was COVID-19 a Zeitenwende ?	5
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	5
Make room for me! A study of how climate change and environment landed on Spanish national security	4
Whose (in)security? Gender, race and coloniality in European security policies: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power	4
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund	4
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective	4
The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC)	4
Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises	4
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	4
Contested statehood, complex sovereignty and the European Union's role in Kosovo	3
Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations	3
The EU’s global strategic partner(ship): a tool for the maturation of European foreign policy?	3
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	3
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023	3
Securitisation in the Mediterranean: an ethical analysis of the EUNAVFOR MED SOPHIA operation using the prism of Floyd’s Just Securitisation Theory (JST)	3
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	3
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	3
Free speech versus defence of the nation? The media as sources of national insecurity in Ukraine	3
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	3
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries	3
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?	3
Reaching for the threshold?: Assessing institutional maturity in EU foreign policy	3
Unpacking Normative Power Europe: EU promotion of security norm cluster in ASEAN	2
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	2
Feeble rules: one dual-use sanctions regime, multiple ways of implementation and application?	2
Gendered insecurities: EU practices in countering violent extremism in Niger	2
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine	2
Human security governance: the case of Syrians in Turkey	2
Dreams Lab: assembling knowledge security in Sino-Dutch research collaborations	2
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	2
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	2
Politicisation of the European Foreign, security, and defence cooperation: the case of the EU’s Russian sanctions	2
The European Union's use of contractors in security and defence: blazing its own path of institutional change?	2
Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation	2
Explaining third-country participation in CSDP missions: the case of the association trio – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova	2
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives	2
Under the radar: Ireland, maritime security capacity, and the governance of subsea infrastructure	2
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	2

Evaluating the impact of the EU’s normative message of the “EU as a model” on external public perceptions: an experimental study in Israel