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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	29
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	12
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	12
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	10
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	9
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	9
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	8
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	8
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	7
(Geo)Politics of Universal Periodic Review: Why States Issue and Accept Human Rights Recommendations?	7
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	7
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	5
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	5
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	5
International Crisis Termination and Presidential Approval	5
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	5
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	4
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy	4
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	4
The Benefits of Friendliness: The Consequences of Positive Interpersonal Relations for Interstate Politics	4

Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	4
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	4
Why Talk Tough? Explaining Japanese Prime Ministers’ Proactiveness in National Defense Rhetoric	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	3
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	3
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	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
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	3
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	3
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	3
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	3
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	3
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	2
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	2
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	2
Toward a (More) Critical FPA	2
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	2
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	2
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	2
Migration and Economic Coercion	2
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	2
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	2
The Role of Political Leaders’ Emotions in Shaping International Rivalries: The Case of Former Bolivian President Evo Morales	2
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	2
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	2
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	2
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	2
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	2
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	2
Entrepreneurial Frame Alignment: Framing Foreign Policy Change under a Veil of Continuity	2
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	2
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Strategic Value of Combining Inducements with Militarized Compellent Threats	2
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	2
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	1
Economic Sanctions and Sovereign Bond Ratings in the Developing World	1
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	1
International Trade, Cooperation, and Conflict: The Role of Institutions and Capabilities	1
Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity	1
Embargoes, Weapons, and Violence: The Conditional Effects of Arms Embargoes on Civilian Targeting	1
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	1
Cheerleading in Cyberspace: How the American Public Judges Attribution Claims for Cyberattacks	1
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha	1
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	1
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch	1
Frontiering International Relations: Narrating US Policy in the Asia Pacific	1
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	1

Introducing Myth to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Blair Poodle Myth and Its Impact on Constructions of the “Special Relationship”	1
Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment	1
Political Risk and Economic Sectors: Chinese Overseas Public and Private Investment in the Developing World	1