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Peacebuilding and International Security

Peacebuilding and International Security is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of the local turn in peacebuilding, resilience governance, and the challenges of international intervention in post-conflict societies. It delves into topics such as hybridity, neoliberalism, security sector reform, everyday peace, and the complexities of humanitarian action.

  • Local Turn
  • Resilience Governance
  • Peacebuilding
  • Hybridity
  • Neoliberalism
  • International Intervention
  • Everyday Peace
  • Security Sector Reform
  • Post-Conflict Societies
  • Humanitarian Action
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peacebuilding and International Security

Which countries lead Peacebuilding and International Security research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (525 and 420 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 525 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 420 works
  3. 3 Germany 344 works
  4. 4 Australia 135 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 127 works
  6. 6 Canada 107 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 104 works
  8. 8 France 93 works
  9. 9 Sweden 89 works
  10. 10 South Africa 81 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 25.9%United Kingdom: 20.8%Germany: 17.0%Australia: 6.7%6 others listed: 29.6%26%largest
United States525 · 25.9%United Kingdom420 · 20.8%Germany344 · 17.0%Australia135 · 6.7%6 others listed600 · 29.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Peacebuilding and International Security research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Peacebuilding and International Security research, followed by University of Juba and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 154 works
  2. 2 University of JubaSouth Sudan 26 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 23 works
  5. 5 Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  6. 6 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 23 works
  7. 7 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 20 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 20 works
  9. 9 Australian National UniversityAustralia 20 works
  10. 10 Uppsala UniversitySweden 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peacebuilding and International Security?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peacebuilding and International Security include Noam Chomsky and Francis Fukuyama.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  2. 2 Francis Fukuyama United States 110k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Peacebuilding and International Security?

The most cited paper in Peacebuilding and International Security is "The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory" (John A. Agnew, 1994), with 2,519 citations. Next come "International regimes" (2,371) and "Why States Act through Formal International Organizations" (1,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory John A. Agnew · Review of International Political Economy Mar 1994 2,519
2 International regimes R. J. Barry Jones · International Affairs 1983 2,371
3 Why States Act through Formal International Organizations Kenneth Wayne Abbott, Duncan Snidal · Journal of Conflict Resolution Feb 1998 1,776
4 Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset Clionadh Raleigh, Andrew M. Linke, Håvard Hegre et al. · Journal of Peace Research Open access Sep 2010 1,763
5 Seizing the Middle Ground: Emanuel Adler · European Journal of International Relations Sep 1997 1,447
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Where is Peacebuilding and International Security research done?

The largest centres of Peacebuilding and International Security research in 2022-now are Hamburg (Germany), London (United Kingdom), Washington D.C. (United States) and Oslo (Norway). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dili, Juba and Hamburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 HamburgGermany 171 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  4. 4 OsloNorway 48 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 44 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 43 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 33 works
  9. 9 AnkaraTürkiye 33 works
  10. 10 JubaSouth Sudan 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DiliTL · 21.3 works180×
  2. JubaSS · 31.9 works64×
  3. HamburgDE · 170.8 works30×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peacebuilding and International Security than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peacebuilding and International Security?

Among universities, judged by research, Uppsala University, University of Manchester and Lund University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Graduate Institute o…Lund UniversityUppsala UniversityUniversity of Manche…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Uppsala UniversitySweden 81.523.4%11.5×20 -0.9%
2University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 79.615.7%8.5×23 +21.5%
3Lund UniversitySweden 75.724.5%7.8×14 +28.8%
4Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesSwitzerland 75.532.9%134.7×16 -1.8%
5University of GothenburgSweden 73.326.9%8.0×12 +30.6%
6University of SussexUnited Kingdom 64.919.8%14.7×12 +10.5%
7University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 64.321.0%8.5×17 -28.9%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.119.8%4.5×20 -34.7%
9Australian National UniversityAustralia 62.222.0%12.4×20 -43.0%
10University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 60.013.1%6.7×19 +1.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Peacebuilding and International Security, country by country

Is Peacebuilding and International Security research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Peacebuilding and International Security.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Peacebuilding and International Security as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Peacebuilding and International Security0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Peacebuilding and International Security over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Peacebuilding and International Security9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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