OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Security Policy is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace	98
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	75
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	59
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	52
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	48
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	48
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism	47
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	29
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	24
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	20
Changes to the editorial team and board	19
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	17
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	16
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	16
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	16
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	15
Defence and climate change: An introduction	15
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis	15
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	14
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	14
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	14
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	13
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	12
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11

Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy	11
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward	10
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	10
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	10
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	8
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	8
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment	8
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	8
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	7
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States	7
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	7
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	7
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	7
Changes to the editorial board	7
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	7