OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Security is 7. 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
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
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship	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