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

Article	Citations
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	31
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	18
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	12
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	12
Narrating Security, Preserving Identity: Japan’s Discursive Securitization without Militarization	11
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	11
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	10
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	10
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	8
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	8
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	8
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Polarization, Political Turnover, and the Stability of Democratic Foreign Policy	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
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	6
Unlocking Public Support: How Communication about Program Design Affects Public Perception of IMF Interventions	6
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	6
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	6
Assessing the Effects of International Sanctions on Conflict-Induced Refugee Flows	5
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	5
The Paradox of Cooperative Migration Diplomacy in the Global South: Inter-Sending State Cooperation, Multilevel Diplomacy Strategies, and the Philippine State	5
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	5

Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	5
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	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
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	5
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	4
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	4
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	4
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	4
All Things Work Together for Good: How Bilateral Investment Treaties Affect the Allocation of Foreign Aid	4
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	4
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	4
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	4
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	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
The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	3
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	2
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	2
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	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
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	2
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	2
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	2
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	2
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	2
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	2
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Do Americans Support War Crimes Prosecutions?	1
Severing the Belt and Road: Overseas Chinese Networks and COVID-19 Travel Restrictions	1
Does Emergency Rule Help Counterinsurgents? Testing the Hearts and Minds Theories	1
Democracy, Trade Networks, and International Condemnation of Russia Following the Invasion of Ukraine	1
Political Risk and Economic Sectors: Chinese Overseas Public and Private Investment in the Developing World	1
The Blame Game: Public Outcry and Terrorism within and Exported from the Sanctioned State	1
Sand in the Gears: When Diplomatic Interpersonal Interactions Go Awry	1

Do China’s Foreign Economic Ties Lead to Influence Abroad? New Evidence from Recent Events	1
Staying or Leaving? How Businesses Take Action Towards Economic Sanctions and Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine War	1
The Currency Constraint: Explaining the Selective Enforcement of US Financial Sanctions	1
Foreign Policy Counter-Elite and Durability of Populist Foreign Policy	1
The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?	1
Who Rallies Round the Flag? The Impact of the US Sanctions on Iranians’ Attitude toward the Government	1
Domestic Power Consolidation, Leader Survival, and Chinese High-level Visits	1
Business Elites and Germany’s Economic Hedging toward China (2014–2021): A Prospect Theory Perspective	1
Anti-Weapons Activism and Arms Bans: Why Brazil Banned Anti-Personnel Mines but Not Cluster Munitions	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
Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha	1
Navigating Interrole Conflicts and Maneuvering Sovereignty in the Foreign Policy of Buffer States	1
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	1
Strong-State Restraint as a Legitimation Strategy: Evidence from the South China Sea	1
Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity	1
Offense–Defense Balance and Sanctions Backfire: A Theory of US Sanctions Doctrines	1
Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Development: Unraveling Economic Rationales in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Injustices and Insecurities: Victimhood in Rodrigo Duterte's Populist Script of Philippine Foreign Policy	1
Introducing Myth to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Blair Poodle Myth and Its Impact on Constructions of the “Special Relationship”	1
What is a Patriot? A Cross-National Study in China and the United States	1
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	1
Facial Metrics, Aggression, and the Use of Military Force	1
Embargoes, Weapons, and Violence: The Conditional Effects of Arms Embargoes on Civilian Targeting	1
When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy	1
Scapegoating Your Ally: How Leaders Deflect Audience Costs by Blaming Allies for Not Supporting Them in International Crises	1
Institutions over Individuals: The Role of Government Type in Demonstrating Resolve during International Crises	1
Visceral Politics and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Decision-Making	1
How States Punch above Their Weight: Introducing Hybrid Actorness as Expanded Foreign Policy	1
Domestic Debate and International Office: Sweden in the UN Security Council 2017–18	1