OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Security Policy 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	116
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	82
The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy	77
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	64
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	57
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	56
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	55
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	33
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	32
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	27
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	25
A paradigmatic study of strategic partnerships in international relations: Concepts, debates and theorizations	23
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	22
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	21
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	19
Defence and climate change: An introduction	18
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	17
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	16
The 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	15
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	15
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	15
Beyond burden-sharing: Signaling and variation in NATO defence spending	15
Editorial message 2026	13
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy	13

Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	12
Apocalyptic imaginaries: Risk and regulation in discourses of military AI and nuclear weapons	12
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	11
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	11
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry	11
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	10
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	9
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	9
A civilizational imaginary of Western military technology	9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	9
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	9
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	8
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	8
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	8
The paradox of power in cyberconflict: Why authoritarian states have the advantage	8
Changes to the editorial board	8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	8
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	8
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	7
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives	7
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	7
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	7
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime	7
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems	7
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	7
The politics of climate security in France	7
Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs	7
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	6
More than diversion: Economic turmoil, foreign-policy assertiveness, and China’s balance of risk	6
Russia's anti-satellite weapons: A hedging and offsetting strategy to deter Western aerospace forces	6
Making peace by fighting war: Competing visions of conflict management and African agency in the “new scramble for Africa”	6
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	6
Joint military exercises and security ordering in Southeast Asia	6
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	6
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	5
National security outweighs norms and principles: Egypt’s foreign policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war	5
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	5
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	5
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	5
Great power identity in Russia’s position on autonomous weapons systems	5
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	5
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	5
Message from the incoming editors	5
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	5
Symbolism or substance? Europe’s naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific	5
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and regional order: The utility of FPDA military exercises for Malaysia and Singapore	5
Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms exports to India and Indonesia	5
Keeping friends close and enemies closer: Praxis in international security order and the Singapore armed forces	4
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	4