OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize	117
The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy	87
Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis	79
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence	67
War in the borderland through cyberspace: Limits of defending Ukraine through interstate cooperation	60
Making nuclear possession possible: The NPT disarmament principle and the production of less violent and more responsible nuclear states	60
Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	56
Explaining state participation in ten universal WMD treaties: A survival analysis of ratification decisions	34
Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific	32
Oceans rise, empires fall? Reframing seapower for a warming world	27
A paradigmatic study of strategic partnerships in international relations: Concepts, debates and theorizations	26
How does delegation structure shape agent discretion in EU foreign policy? Evidence from the Normandy Format and the Contact Group on Libya	24
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order	22
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings	22
Defence and climate change: An introduction	19
War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world	18
The 2023 Bernard Brodie Prize	17
Risk acceptance and offensive war: The case of Russia under the Putin regime	16
Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly	15
Deterrence by delivery of arms: NATO and the war in Ukraine	15
Beyond burden-sharing: Signaling and variation in NATO defence spending	15
The 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize	15
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy	14
Editorial message 2026	13
Apocalyptic imaginaries: Risk and regulation in discourses of military AI and nuclear weapons	12

Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war	12
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry	12
Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping	12
Cobra Gold over four decades: Hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise	11
No dog in this fight: Interrogating Ethiopia’s calculated neutrality towards the Russia-Ukraine war	10
The limits of weaponised interdependence after the Russian war against Ukraine	10
Saving face in the cyberspace: Responses to public cyber intrusions in the Gulf	10
A civilizational imaginary of Western military technology	9
The rules-based order as rhetorical entrapment: Comparing maritime dispute resolution in the Indo-Pacific	9
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations	9
Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited	9
The paradox of power in cyberconflict: Why authoritarian states have the advantage	8
Changes to the editorial board	8
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers	8
Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war	8
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies: The case of 5G	8
How cyberspace affects international relations: The promise of structural modifiers	8
Strategic narratives and the multilateral governance of cyberspace: The cases of European Union, Russia, and India	8
Beyond barrels and battleships: Maritime power and ontological security in the Arabian/Persian Gulf	8