OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foreign Policy Analysis is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
National Identity, Social Preferences, and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Japan	34
Domestic Groups’ Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset	15
Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment	14
Faith Renewed: Validation of the LTA_Classic Conceptual Complexity Coding Scheme	12
Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea	11
Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe	10
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation	10
Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German Foreign Policy Discourse on Credibility	9
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order	9
The Unlevel Playing Field: Gender, Discrimination, and Global Attitudes toward Trade	8
Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping	8
Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions	8
Role Spillover: Roles’ Impacts across Contexts and the EU’s Struggle for Arctic Council Observer Status	7
Top-Category Inflation in Ordered International Relations Outcomes	7
International Crisis Termination and Presidential Approval	6
Status Seeking through Peacekeeping: Ukraine's Quest for a Positive Social Identity in the International System	6
The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping	6
The Benefits of Friendliness: The Consequences of Positive Interpersonal Relations for Interstate Politics	6
How Is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the US China Field	6
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences: Micro-Level Insights from the Iran–Israel Confrontation	5
Between the West and Russia: Explaining Individual Foreign Policy Preferences in the Small States	5
“Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes	5
Weathering the Storm: Discordant Learning about Reputations for Reliability	4
Intersectionality in International Religious Freedom Policies	4
The Political Economy of Peacekeeping: Civil–Military Resource Substitution through International Brokerage	4

Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect	4
Mass Mobilization, Elite Competition, and Diversionary Use of Sanctions	4
Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online	4
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine	4
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine	4
Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database	4
Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy	4
Can’t Buy Me Love (with Foreign Aid)	4
Ending Economic Sanctions in the Shadow of Bargaining Problems	4
Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner's Decision to Defy “The Vultures”	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
Geocultural Power in the Red Sea Region	3
Some Assembly Required: Explaining Variations in Legislative Oversight over the Armed Forces	3
The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States	3
Coercive Recruitment and Combatant Socialization: Reanalyzing the Role of Child Soldiering on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia's Energy Weapon	3
A Debate of the Highest Order: The Brexit Referendum as Second-Order Role Contestation	3
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization	3
Determining Support for Humanitarian Interventions: Prospect Theory versus Cues	3
Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization	3
Strategic Deception of Rising States From China: Peaceful Rise and Border Order	3
Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence	3
Introducing the Human Intelligence Exposures (HEX) Dataset	3
“Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States	3
Deserving Special Treatment? The Effect of Psychological Entitlement on Support for International Law	3
Testing the Waters: Exploring Why Democracies Have More Maritime Conflict	3