OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foreign Policy Analysis is 4. 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
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	17
Narrating Security, Preserving Identity: Japan’s Discursive Securitization without Militarization	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
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	10
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	10
Polarization, Political Turnover, and the Stability of Democratic Foreign Policy	9
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	8
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	8
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
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
“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
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
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
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
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
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