OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Security Policy is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace	82
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	68
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	51
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	39
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	37
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	36
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	36
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	32
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	25
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	22
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	19
Changes to the editorial team and board	17
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	14
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	14
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	14
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	14
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	14
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis	14
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	13
Cobra Gold over four decades: hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	13
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward	13
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	13
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	13
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	13

No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	12
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	12
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	11
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment	11
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	10
Changes to the editorial board	10
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	10
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	10
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States	9
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	9
Politics is not everything: New perspectives on the public disclosure of intelligence by states	9
Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs	8
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems	8
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	8
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	8
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime	7
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	7
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	7
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	6
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	6
Making peace by fighting war: Competing visions of conflict management and African agency in the “new scramble for Africa”	5
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	5
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	5
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	5
Message from the incoming editors	5
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	5
Symbolism or substance? Europe’s naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific	5
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	5
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	4
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	4
Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms exports to India and Indonesia	4
Power to the have-nots? The NPT and the limits of a treaty hijacked by a “power-over” model	4
A theory of nuclear disarmament: Cases, analogies, and the role of the non-proliferation regime	4
Great power identity in Russia’s position on autonomous weapons systems	4
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	4
National security outweighs norms and principles: Egypt’s foreign policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Transformation of alliances: Mapping Russia’s close relationships in the era of multivectorism	4
Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	3
Emerging technology and the cult of the offensive	3
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	3
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	3
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	3
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and regional order: The utility of FPDA military exercises for Malaysia and Singapore	3
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	3
The limitations of strategic narratives: The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19	3
The last atomic Waltz: China’s nuclear expansion and the persisting relevance of the theory of the nuclear revolution	3