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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime	71
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	60
The 2022 Bernard Brodie prize	47
Externalizing EU crisis management: EU orchestration of the OSCE during the Ukrainian conflict	34
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	32
Gunboats and butter: The two percent guideline and NATO burden shifting in the maritime domain	25
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace	22
Developing digital “peripheries" for strategic advantage: Capacity building assistance and strategic competition in Africa	19
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	15
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	14
Discourse change in international organizations: How UN peace operations respond to global normative change and shifting power distributions	13
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	13
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	13
War in Ukraine	12
Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?	12
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	11
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	11
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	11
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? The NPT and symbolic proliferation	11
Cobra Gold over four decades: hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	11
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	10
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	10
Global Britain in the grey zone: Between stagecraft and statecraft	9
The “sovereignty paradox” in China’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war	8

The quest for leadership in multilateral institutions: Great power rivalries and middle powers in the WTO	8
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	8
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward	8
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	8
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	8
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	8
Differentiated cooperation as the mode of governance in EU foreign policy	8
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	8
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	8
The vitality of the NPT after 50	8
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	7
The Russia-Ukraine war and the Global South’s sovereignty paradox	6
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	6
A machine learning approach to the study of German strategic culture	6
NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime	6
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
India’s recognition as a nuclear power: A case of strategic cooptation	5
Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans	5
Changes to the editorial team and board	5
From reluctance to reassurance: Explaining the shift in the Germans’ NATO alliance solidarity following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	4
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	4
The role of insurers in shaping international cyber-security norms about cyber-war	4
Indonesia’s ambivalence in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing equal sovereignty norms with a familial approach	4
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	4
Who lost Ethiopia? The unmaking of an African anchor state and U.S. foreign policy	4
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	4
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	4
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	4
AI and nuclear decisions: Toward an arms control framework	3
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	3
Power to the have-nots? The NPT and the limits of a treaty hijacked by a “power-over” model	3
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	3
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	3
Whether to worry: Nuclear weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	3
Coercive disclosure: The weaponization of public intelligence revelation in international relations	3