OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Foreign Policy Analysis is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	46
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	30
Narrating Security, Preserving Identity: Japan’s Discursive Securitization without Militarization	17
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	17
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	12
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	11
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	11
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	10
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	10
Polarization, Political Turnover, and the Stability of Democratic Foreign Policy	9
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	8
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	7
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	7
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	7
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	7
Unlocking Public Support: How Communication about Program Design Affects Public Perception of IMF Interventions	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	6
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	6
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	5
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	5
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	5
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	5

Crisis at Home, Exit Abroad: Coups, Civil Wars, and Coalition Defection	5
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences: Micro-Level Insights from the Iran–Israel Confrontation	5
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	5
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	5
Assessing the Effects of International Sanctions on Conflict-Induced Refugee Flows	5
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	5
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	4
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	4
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	4
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	4
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	4
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	4
The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States	4
All Things Work Together for Good: How Bilateral Investment Treaties Affect the Allocation of Foreign Aid	4
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	3
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	3
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	3
Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	2
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	2
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	2
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	2
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	2
Economic Sanctions and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World	2
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	2
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	2
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	2
Do China’s Foreign Economic Ties Lead to Influence Abroad? New Evidence from Recent Events	1
Introducing the CEDAW ROCS dataset: A Dataset on the United Nations Treaty the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women––Reservations and Objections of Committed Stat	1
Do Americans Support War Crimes Prosecutions?	1
Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Development: Unraveling Economic Rationales in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Scapegoating Your Ally: How Leaders Deflect Audience Costs by Blaming Allies for Not Supporting Them in International Crises	1
Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha	1
Visceral Politics and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Decision-Making	1
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	1

Revolutionary Ideals and International Aggression	1
Severing the Belt and Road: Overseas Chinese Networks and COVID-19 Travel Restrictions	1
Democracy, Trade Networks, and International Condemnation of Russia Following the Invasion of Ukraine	1
Does Emergency Rule Help Counterinsurgents? Testing the Hearts and Minds Theories	1
The Blame Game: Public Outcry and Terrorism within and Exported from the Sanctioned State	1
Anti-Weapons Activism and Arms Bans: Why Brazil Banned Anti-Personnel Mines but Not Cluster Munitions	1
Domestic Power Consolidation, Leader Survival, and Chinese High-level Visits	1
Political Risk and Economic Sectors: Chinese Overseas Public and Private Investment in the Developing World	1
When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy	1
Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity	1
Introducing Myth to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Blair Poodle Myth and Its Impact on Constructions of the “Special Relationship”	1
Contextualizing Individual Attitudes on Economic Statecraft	1
Who Rallies Round the Flag? The Impact of the US Sanctions on Iranians’ Attitude toward the Government	1
Facial Metrics, Aggression, and the Use of Military Force	1
The Currency Constraint: Explaining the Selective Enforcement of US Financial Sanctions	1
Strong-State Restraint as a Legitimation Strategy: Evidence from the South China Sea	1
The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?	1
How States Punch above Their Weight: Introducing Hybrid Actorness as Expanded Foreign Policy	1
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	1
Embargoes, Weapons, and Violence: The Conditional Effects of Arms Embargoes on Civilian Targeting	1
Sand in the Gears: When Diplomatic Interpersonal Interactions Go Awry	1
Staying or Leaving? How Businesses Take Action Towards Economic Sanctions and Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Injustices and Insecurities: Victimhood in Rodrigo Duterte's Populist Script of Philippine Foreign Policy	1
Business Elites and Germany’s Economic Hedging toward China (2014–2021): A Prospect Theory Perspective	1
What is a Patriot? A Cross-National Study in China and the United States	1