OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Security is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How much unity do you need? Systemic contestation in EU foreign and security cooperation	51
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia	43
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*	41
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state	31
Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories	31
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation	29
In the EDTIB we trust(?)	29
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty	27
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor	24
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union	23
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation	22
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?	21
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework	18
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	18
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?	17
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story	16
A “hybrid offensive” in the Balkans? Russia and the EU-led Kosovo-Serb negotiations	15
Europe as a geoeconomic pivot: geography and the limits of US economic containment of China	14
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security	12
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order	12
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing	11
Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems	11
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces	10
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU	10
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans	10

Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective	10
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”	9
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout	8
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation	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
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes	7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?	7
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?	7
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity	7
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability	6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo	6
German-UK defence cooperation amid Brexit: prospects for new bilateralism?	6
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?	6
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability	6