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Papers

(The median citation count of Security Dialogue 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The banalization of race in international security studies: From absolution to abolition	53
Security as white privilege: Racializing whiteness in critical security studies	21
Towards theorizing from the Arab non-periphery: Hyphenated identities and the boundless security field	21
Translation: How securitization of Islam travels from right-wing to left-wing political parties	18
Porous bunker: Private security contractors and the plasticity of Mogadishu’s international ‘green zone’	15
Refusal as caretaking: Lyric poetry and the War on Terror	15
Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party	14
Racial militarism and civilizational anxiety at the imperial encounter: From metropole to the postcolonial state	14
Memoirs of women-in-conflict: Ugandan ex-combatants and the production of knowledge on security and peacebuilding	13
Making pushbacks public: Secrecy, material witnesses and devices of dis/appearance	12
The technological obstructions of asylum: Asylum seekers as forced techno-users and governing through disorientation	12
Assembling prevention: Technology, expertise and control in postwar Guatemala	12
‘I will resurrect’: Reading and writing grief as political action	11
Race and racism in critical security studies	11
Insurance technopolitics: Car theft, recovery, and tracking systems in São Paulo	11
Framing collective violence as war time: Temporality, circulation, resistance	11
Global silences as privilege: The international community’s white silence on far-right terrorism	10
The militarization of digital surveillance in post-coup Zimbabwe: ‘Just don’t tell them what we do’	10
Exceptional (in)security: The vernacular turn and chronic crisis in Sierra Leone	10
Migrant deaths in the name of law	9
The impact of (counter-)terrorism on public (in)security in Nigeria: A vernacular analysis	9
Making war safe for capitalism: The World Bank and its evolving interventions in conflict	9
Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments	9
Mechanical sex, science, security: Intersex medical violence, Thomas Hobbes and John Money’s invention of gender	9
The biopolitics of algorithmic governmentality: How the US military imagines war in the age of neurobiology and artificial intelligence	8

Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia	8
The micro-dynamics of peace and conflict	8
The strange resilience of the UK e-Borders programme: Technology hype, failure and lock-in in border control	8
(In)security in subordination: Policing and policework in postcolonial Pakistan	8
Assessing threatening uncertainties: Counterterrorism and everyday practices of preemptive policing in Ghana	8
Transnationally entangled (in)securities: The UAE, Turkey, and the Saharan political economy of danger	8
A call for abolition: The disavowal and displacement of race in critical security studies	7
The intersectionality of health (in)security: Healthcare, disposable workers, and exposure within Brazil’s pandemic politics	7
Registers of security: The concept of tryghed in Danish politics	7
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in democracies	7
To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story	7
From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime	6
The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty	6
Threats, deportability and aid: The politics of refugee rentier states and regional stability	6
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’	5
Everyday security and the newspaper obituary: Reproducing and contesting terrorism discourse	5
Archiving as embodied research and security practice	5
Race, space, and ‘terror’: Notes from East Africa	5
Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation	5
Upholding disciplinary whiteness: The #SdScandal, gender and international relations’ critical turn	5
Memory as vulnerability: Reinhabiting sites of violence and the politics of triumphalist amnesia in Kenya’s war on terror	5
Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare	5
Governing ‘ordinary’ uncertainty: Circulating information and everyday insecurity in Karachi	5
Modular sovereignty and infrastructural power: The elusive materiality of international statebuilding	4
Unmasking the racism of orthodox international relations/international political economy theory	4
Police work and the politics of expendability in India	4
A call to arms: Hero–villain narratives in US security discourse	4
Ignorance, (in)security and Europe’s ‘migration crisis’: Vernacular (non)knowledge among citizens	4
Racism! What do you mean? From Howell and Richter-Montpetit’s underestimation of the problem, towards situating security through struggle	4
Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
On whiteness in critical security studies: The case of nuclear weapons	4
A gendered security dispositif: Mobilizing gender in Mexico City	3
Singing truth to power: Transformative (gender) justice, musical spatialities and creative performance in periods of transition from violence	3
Pharmacotic wargames: Military play as ritual sacrifice	3
‘My body is my piece of land’: Indebted deportation among undocumented migrant sex workers from Thailand and Nigeria in Europe	3
A self-fulfilling prophecy? Constructions of youth-as-troublemakers in UN DDR processes	3
The undersecuritization of COVID-19 in Japan: Voluntary behavioral change as self-defense?	3
Late modern war and the geos: The ecological ‘beforemaths’ of advanced military technologies	3
‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security	3
Transformative incrementalism: Palestinian women’s strategies of resistance and resilience amid gendered insecurity and neoliberal co-optation	3
Decolonizing the Responsibility to Protect: On pervasive Eurocentrism, Southern agency and struggles over universals	3
Queer on the home front: Russian LGBTIQ activism and queer security in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Calculating ‘climate migrants’: An emerging topology of power	2
Settler colonial counterinsurgency: Indigenous resistance and the more-than-state policing of #NoDAPL	2
Security technology, urban prototyping, and the politics of failure	2
Beyond ambivalence: Locating the whiteness of security	2
Colouring critical security studies: A view from the classroom	2
In the grey zone: Threat representations and security practices in the Swedish militarization process	2
Insurmountable enemies or easy targets? Military-themed videogame ‘translations’ of weaponized artificial intelligence	2
Deadly ambiguities: NATO and the politics of counter-terrorism in international organizations after 9/11	2

How military forecasting projects can promote exceptionalist militarism: The French Red Team project and the securitization of the future	2
Contesting colonial beachheads: Settler colonial (in)security professionals and Indigenous peoples’ energy infrastructure	2