Contemporary Security Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Security Policy is 9. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
NATO’s sub-conventional deterrence: The case of Russian violations of the Estonian airspace82
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize68
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence51
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis39
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states37
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions36
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation36
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific32
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism25
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine22
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order19
Changes to the editorial team and board17
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime14
The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis14
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world14
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine14
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya14
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings14
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize14
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward13
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war13
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine13
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping13
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf13
Cobra Gold over four decades: hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise13
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war12
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations12
Omnibalancing and international interventions: How Chad’s president Déby benefitted from troop deployment11
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific11
Changes to the editorial board10
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war10
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers10
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers10
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India9
Politics is not everything: New perspectives on the public disclosure of intelligence by states9
Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States9
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