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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	84
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	81
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	63
The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy	43
Transformative resilience under geopolitical precarity: Uzbekistan’s regional strategy after 2016	35
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	27
Ordering outside an order: Africa beyond the menu	26
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	26
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	25
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	25
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	21
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	20
A paradigmatic study of strategic partnerships in international relations: Concepts, debates and theorizations	18
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	17
Defence and climate change: An introduction	16
The 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
Beyond burden-sharing: Signaling and variation in NATO defence spending	14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	14
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy	13
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	13
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	13
European threat perceptions after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine: The end of “strategic cacophony”?	12
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	12
Editorial message 2026	12

Apocalyptic imaginaries: Risk and regulation in discourses of military AI and nuclear weapons	11
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	11
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry	11
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	10
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	9
A civilizational imaginary of Western military technology	9
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	9
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	8
Beyond barrels and battleships: Maritime power and ontological security in the Arabian/Persian Gulf	8
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	8
The paradox of power in cyberconflict: Why authoritarian states have the advantage	8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	8
Democratic resilience to authoritarian disinformation: Initiating a needs-based approach	8
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
Changes to the editorial board	7
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars	7
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad	7
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	7
The politics of climate security in France	7
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order	7
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	7
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine	7
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics	6
Making peace by fighting war: Competing visions of conflict management and African agency in the “new scramble for Africa”	6
Joint military exercises and security ordering in Southeast Asia	6
More than diversion: Economic turmoil, foreign-policy assertiveness, and China’s balance of risk	6
Backwards from zero: How the U.S. public evaluates the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity	6
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations	6
Message from the incoming editors	6
The changing regional faces of peace: Toward a new multilateralism?	5
Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war	5
What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies	5
“Taking down the sign”—narrating the liberal international order without American leadership	5
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe	5
Symbolism or substance? Europe’s naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific	5
Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms exports to India and Indonesia	5
National security outweighs norms and principles: Egypt’s foreign policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty	4
The arrival of the multi-order world—reflections on the state of play	4
Governing AI in the military domain in a multi-order world: China, the US, and visions of the “good life”	4
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and regional order: The utility of FPDA military exercises for Malaysia and Singapore	4
Interests trump principles and values: India’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war	4
External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment	3
The gendered politics of wartime assistance: Female leaders and military aid to Ukraine	3
From cricket diplomacy to digital fronts: YouTube comments and securitization of India-Pakistan rivalry	3

Re-ordering accountability: The significance of joint public attribution in a fragmented cyberspace	3
The fragile coherence of Russia’s international order	3
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war	3
At the boundaries of order: Narrativity in a multi-order world	3
Emerging technology and the cult of the offensive	3
Narrating a global order with Chinese characteristics	3
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects	3
Keeping friends close and enemies closer: Praxis in international security order and the Singapore armed forces	3
Roots of Ukrainian resilience and the agency of Ukrainian society before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion	3
Learning to trust Skynet: Interfacing with artificial intelligence in cyberspace	3
China’s informal power mismatch in international institutions: The case of penholdership in the United Nations Security Council	3
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity	3
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes	3