Contemporary Security Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Security Policy is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
From rivals to partners: The cooptation of emerging powers into the climate regime71
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize60
The 2022 Bernard Brodie prize47
Externalizing EU crisis management: EU orchestration of the OSCE during the Ukrainian conflict34
The limits of strategic partnerships: Implications for China’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war32
Gunboats and butter: The two percent guideline and NATO burden shifting in the maritime domain25
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace22
Developing digital “peripheries" for strategic advantage: Capacity building assistance and strategic competition in Africa19
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis15
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad14
Discourse change in international organizations: How UN peace operations respond to global normative change and shifting power distributions13
(Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order13
Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars13
War in Ukraine12
Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?12
Career connections: transnational expert networks and multilateral cybercrime negotiations11
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence11
Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine11
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? The NPT and symbolic proliferation11
Cobra Gold over four decades: hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise11
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives11
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation10
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf10
Global Britain in the grey zone: Between stagecraft and statecraft9
Differentiated cooperation as the mode of governance in EU foreign policy8
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states8
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism8
The vitality of the NPT after 508
The “sovereignty paradox” in China’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war8
The quest for leadership in multilateral institutions: Great power rivalries and middle powers in the WTO8
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions8
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward8
Pakistan’s neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war: Navigating great power politics8
Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity8
Beyond deterrence: Reconceptualizing denial strategies and rethinking their emotional effects8
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