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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Visceral Politics and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Decision-Making	37
Global South Leaders and Foreign Policy: The Acceptability Constraint and Transnational Considerations in the Decision Context	24
Predilection or Prediction? Country Selection for the President's Daily Intelligence Brief, 1961–1977	12
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	12
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation	9
Does Emergency Rule Help Counterinsurgents? Testing the Hearts and Minds Theories	8
Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Development: Unraveling Economic Rationales in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy	8
Is a Free Trade Agreement More than Merely a Trade Policy? People's Preferences for Free Trade Agreements and the Security Factor	8
To What End? Policy Objectives and US Public Support for Political Warfare	8
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	7
Status Signaling and the Risk of Domestic Opposition: Comparing South Africa and Brazil's Hosting of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups	7
The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes	7
The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?	7
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	6
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	6
A Pact with the Devil: The Madman Theory and Nonaggression Pacts	5
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	5
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	5
In the Name of Mazu: The Use of Religion by China to Intervene in Taiwanese Elections	5
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	5
Populist Minds Think Alike? National Identity Conceptions and Foreign Policy Preferences of Populist Leaders	4
Religious Discrimination, Diaspora, and United Nations Voting on Israel	4
Securitization, Deterrence, and Extended Deterrence by Denial: The War in Ukraine	4
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy	4
Going Nativist: How Nativism and Economic Ideology Interact to Shape Beliefs about Global Trade	4

The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements	4
Resolving Conflicting Emotions: Obama's Quandaries on the Red Line and the Fight against ISIS	4
Committed Moderates and Uncommitted Extremists: Ideological Leaning and Parties’ Narratives on Military Interventions in Italy	4
(Geo)Politics of Universal Periodic Review: Why States Issue and Accept Human Rights Recommendations?	4
Interest, Need, or Reputation? Determinants of Qatar's Foreign Aid	3
Reframing, Remorse, and Reassurance: Remedial Work in Diplomatic Crises	3
Cheerleading in Cyberspace: How the American Public Judges Attribution Claims for Cyberattacks	3
Why Talk Tough? Explaining Japanese Prime Ministers’ Proactiveness in National Defense Rhetoric	3
Disparity and Diversion: Domestic Economic Inequality and MID Initiation	3
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	3
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	3
The Blame Game: Public Outcry and Terrorism within and Exported from the Sanctioned State	3
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	2
Psychological Characteristics of Leaders (PsyCL): A New Data Set	2
Do China’s Foreign Economic Ties Lead to Influence Abroad? New Evidence from Recent Events	2
Strong-State Restraint as a Legitimation Strategy: Evidence from the South China Sea	2
Frontiering International Relations: Narrating US Policy in the Asia Pacific	2
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions to “Collateral Damage” Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct	2
Are You Experienced? US Ambassadors and International Crises, 1946–2014	2
The Operational Codes of Pacific Island Countries’ Leaders: Beliefs about the World amidst Climate Change	2
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	2
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	2
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	2
EU Member State Support to Ukraine	2
Birds of a Feather, Do Sanctioned States Flock Together?	2
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	2
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	2
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	2
What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences	2
The War on Terror and the Victory Trap	2
Insights for Foreign Policy Analysis from European Union External Action Studies	2
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch	2
What is a Patriot? A Cross-National Study in China and the United States	1
Backing Out but Backing In Audience Costs? A Replication of Levy et al. (2015)	1
The Advantages of Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to the Studies On Ethnic Interest Groups	1
Hawks versus Doves: Who Leads American Foreign Policy in the US Congress?	1
Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War	1
Dimensionality of Party Politics of Foreign Policy: Spatial Modeling of Slovakia's National Council	1
The US Congress and Rogue States	1
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Economic Recovery and Peace-Building	1
A Soft Power Challenge, or an Opportunity? A Big Data Analysis on Chinese Soft Power during COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	1
What is Lost in Translation? Differences between Chinese Foreign Policy Statements and Their Official English Translations	1
US Diplomatic Visits and Allies’ Military Spending	1
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	1
Support from Above: International Organizations, Summits, and Leader Survival	1
The Currency Constraint: Explaining the Selective Enforcement of US Financial Sanctions	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
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	1
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	1

Role Legitimation in Foreign Policy: The Case of Indonesia as an Emerging Power under Yudhoyono's Presidency (2004–2014)	1
Individuals in Securitization: Explaining US Presidents’ Choice to (De)Securitize North Korea	1
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa	1
Updating the Study of Foreign Policy Crisis: The Case of the Mavi Marmara Flotilla	1
International Trade, Cooperation, and Conflict: The Role of Institutions and Capabilities	1
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	1