OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Defence and Peace Economics is 4. 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 Economic Benefits of North Warning System Modernization	30
Geopolitical risk spillovers and interconnectedness: evidence from the MENA region and key global powers	26
Drivers and Impact of European Defence Market Integration: A Literature Meta-Synthesis with Economic Focus	18
High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway	17
Modest and balanced: the US defense budget buildup during the first Trump administration, 2017–2020	16
Natural resource dependence and war nexus: new insights	13
Strategic Interaction of Governments and Terrorist Groups in Times of Economic Hardship	12
Demand for Military Expenditures and Security Alignment Choices in the Indo-Pacific	12
The Spectrum of Strategic Autonomy in EU Defence Supply Chains	11
Military Spending Composition and Economic Growth	11
Geopolitical Risk and Stock-Bond Interplay: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Conventional Assets in the GCC	11
Post Service Labor Market Performance of Immigrant Veterans	10
Class Warfare: Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950	10
Should I Pay, Or Should I Quash? The Role of Governments’ Ideology in Ransom Payment	10
The Formation of Terrorist Groups: An Empirical Analysis	10
The Dynamics of the Global Arms Trade Network: States’ Stability and Instability	10
The Evolution Towards the Partial Strategic Autonomy of Sweden’s Essential Security Interests	9
Long-term Consequences of Civil War in Tajikistan: The Gendered Impact on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	8
Corruption, ICT and Military Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike	8
Fertile ground for conflict: evidence revisited using spatial first differences	8
Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s	8
Do Political Instability and Military Expenditure Undermine Economic Growth in Egypt? Evidence from the ARDL Approach	8
Country Survey: Canadian Military Expenditure and Defence Policy	7
The Political Economy of Military Aircraft, the Case of Europe	7

Market Structures, Competition and Innovation: Grounds for an Alternative Defence Industrial Policy	7
Reassessing the military spending–economic growth nexus in the ‘shadows’: selected Balkan countries, 1990–2022	6
Scientometric Analysis of the Relationship between Expenditure on Defence and Economic Growth: Current Situation and Future Perspectives	6
Constraining Compliance? Reconsidering the Effect of Veto Players on Sanctions Success	6
Civil War Outcomes and Egalitarian Democracy in Post-Civil War States: A Cross-National Analysis, 1946-2018	6
Verification of Peace Accords and Military Expenditures in Post-Conflict Societies	6
Unemployment and Military Labour Supply: A Study on Belgian Data for the Period 2005-2020	6
Technological Emergence and Military Technology Innovation	5
Within Ethnic Population Inequality and within Self-Determination Movement Violence	5
Competition from Within: Ethnicity, Power, and Militant Group Rivalry	5
Military spending and the fear hypothesis	5
Conflict with Third-Party Intervention and Revenge: A Game-Theoretic Exploration	5
Extractive Politics, Redistribution, and War: On the Rationality of Kleptocratic Mismanagement	5
Concentration and Innovation in the Defence Industry: A Stochastic Game	5
The Impact of Military Expenditures on Economic Growth: A New Instrumental Variables Approach	5
Has the iron fist against criminal gangs really worked in El Salvador?	4
A theoretical treatment of foreign fighters and terrorism	4
Arms Spending and War Casualties: Understanding the Strategic Trade-Offs in Warfare	4
Equilibrium in an asymmetric war of attrition with a fight option	4
Long-Run Equilibrium Between Military Expenditure and GDP with Non-Linear Structural Breaks in NATO Member States	4
The Ascent of Geopolitics: Scientometric Analysis and Ramifications of Geopolitical Risk	4
Armed Conflict and Its Repercussions on Population Growth: The Turkish Case	4
The Effect of the US Macroeconomic Indicators on the International Geopolitical Risk	4
European Defence: No Zeitenwende Yet	4
Arms Racing, Military Build-Ups and Dispute Intensity: Evidence from the Greek-Turkish Rivalry, 1985-2020	4
Cybersecurity For Defense Economists	4
The economic costs and benefits of the European Future Combat Air System	4