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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize84
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis81
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence63
The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy43
Transformative resilience under geopolitical precarity: Uzbekistan’s regional strategy after 201635
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific27
Ordering outside an order: Africa beyond the menu26
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions26
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order25
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine25
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya21
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world20
A paradigmatic study of strategic partnerships in international relations: Concepts, debates and theorizations18
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings17
Defence and climate change: An introduction16
The 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize15
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize15
Beyond burden-sharing: Signaling and variation in NATO defence spending14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime14
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine13
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy13
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly13
Editorial message 202612
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 peacekeeping12
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry11
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf11
Apocalyptic imaginaries: Risk and regulation in discourses of military AI and nuclear weapons11
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war11
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise11
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine10
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific9
A civilizational imaginary of Western military technology9
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war9
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers8
Beyond barrels and battleships: Maritime power and ontological security in the Arabian/Persian Gulf8
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war8
The paradox of power in cyberconflict: Why authoritarian states have the advantage8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers8
Democratic resilience to authoritarian disinformation: Initiating a needs-based approach8
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