OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Affairs is 0. 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
Populist Appeal or Fearful Support? Examining the War on Drugs in the Philippines under Duterte	28
Social Media and Malaysia's 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning	21
THE RIVALRY PERIL: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy	18
South Korea and The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism	12
Goldilocks' Purgatory: The Public Transcript of Performative Governance in Singapore	8
Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia	8
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations	7
Democratic Resilience and Vulnerability in South Korea: Lessons from South Korea's 2024 – 2025 Constitutional Crisis	6
Post-democratizing Politics in Southeast and Northeast Asia	5
Transpacific, Undisciplined	5
Third Time's the Charm:The Youth Vote and Prabowo's Victory in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election	5
The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election and the Gender Divide among the Youth	5
Green Superpowers: China, the European Union, and the United States in the Global Energy Transition	5
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet	5
Age and Ideology: The Emergence of New Political Cleavages in Thailand's 2566 (2023) Election	4
Together and Apart: The Evolving Sino-Russian Relationship	4
The Politics of South Korea: A Comprehensive Introduction	4
Changing Triangular Relationships: A Historical Analysis of Labour Relations at a Chinese Mine in Papua New Guinea	4
Cynical and Celebratory Sensibilities in South Korea's 2022 Presidential Election	3
The Don Sahong Dam in Laos: Political Ecology, Infrastructure, and the Changing Spatialities of Impacts on Fish and People	3
Entanglements of Mobility and Immobility: A Review of Eight Documentaries	3
Hidden Flows: Hydropower and the Rhythms of Development on the Mekong	3
Migration, Aging and Japan’s Sustainable Society	3
Conversations on Violence in India	2
Japan's Revolutionary Military Change: Explaining Why It Happened Under Kishida	2

Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung	2
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam	2
The Politics of Compromise: Analyzing the Repeal of Section 377A in Singapore	2
Fiji's 2022 Election: The Defeat of the Politics of Fear	2
Why "Temu Trumpism" Failed in Australia: Labor's Landslide Victory and the Pro-Globalization Consensus	2
The Politics of Pakistan's COVID-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach	2
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus	2
Mutual Perceptions and China-South Korea Relations: A Comparative Study of the Academic Literature	2
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election	2
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness	2
Cross-Party Presidential Dynasticism in Indonesia: Evidence from the 2024 Presidential Elections	2
A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under US Occupation	2
"Our Cry as Women Leaders": Crisis Response Intervention, Customary Governance, and the Masculinization of Peace in Solomon Islands	2
The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China	2
The Political Origins of Persistent Elderly Poverty in South Korea	1
Flight to Quality and a New Prime Minister's Mandate: Singapore's 2025 General Elections	1
Democratic Breakdown through Lawfare by Constitutional Courts: The Case of Post-"Democratic Transition" Thailand	1
Okinawa: Great Power Competition and the Keystone of the Pacific	1
Censoring Speech in Democracies: South Korea	1
Presidential Personality and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Sunshine Policy under Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003)	1
Mobilizing the Past: The Lessons of History and the Danger of War between China and the United States	1
Fear and Chameleon Politics in Papua, Indonesia	1
China between Peace and War: Mao, Chiang and the Americans, 1945–1947	1
The "Hub-and-Spokes Plus Model": A Case Study of AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	1
Covid-19 in Asia: Governance And The Politics of the Pandemic	1
India's Authoritarian Turn: Understanding the Emergency (1975–1977) and Its Afterlife	1
India’s Democracy: The Competitive Authoritarian Propensity? Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani	1
The Art of Thai Diplomacy: Parables of Alliance	1
Historical Lessons from Japanese-Russian Trade	0
Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security	0
Evolution of Our Times: Developing Democratic Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan	0
From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights? Democratic Framing Contests and Refugee Politics in South Korea	0
The Forgotten Victims of the Atomic Bomb: North Korean Pipokja and the Politics of Victimhood in Japan-DPRK Relations	0
Social Media and the DIY Politics in Thailand's 2023 Election	0
Fandom Makes the World Go Round: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Cultural Translation among Hallyu Fans	0
The Asian Monetary Fund and De-Dollarization: The Reshaping of the Global Order	0
Why Was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? A State-in-Society Approach	0
Japan's FOIP-Based Diplomacy Toward the Pacific Islands Region	0
Remorse, Resentment, & Resilience: The 2025 Midterm Philippine Elections	0
Democracy Isn't Enough for Redistribution: Welfare Stagnation and Labour Weakening in South Korea and Taiwan	0
Fast Finance and the Political Economy of Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Lao PDR: The Case of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy	0
Controlling the Opposition Abroad: Cambodia's Extraterritorial Activities in Long Beach, California	0
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	0
Peaks of Policy Analysis: Six National Cases in Asia and the Pacific	0
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI): Did It Help or Harm a Friend?	0
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China	0
Judicial Systems of the World	0
Host-Site Dynamics and their Impact on China's Investment in Malaysia: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	0
Moderation of Sarawak Regionalism in Malaysia's 15th General Election	0
In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape	0

Vietnam's War Against COVID-19	0
Deterring the Right to Justice: Structural Coercion and the Trafficking of Filipino Female Entertainers in South Korea	0
The Future of the South China Sea: Disputes and Negotiations	0
Identity, Participation, and Democracy in East Asia	0
Hegemony and Legitimacy: US-China Competition in a Contested Indo-Pacific	0
Continuity, History, and Identity: Why Bongbong Marcos Won the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election	0
Navigating a Cautious Pivot: Strategic Circumspection and Knowledge Diplomacy in Malaysia’s Engagement with Iran Under Anwar Ibrahim	0
Reframing Growth: Elite Paradigms and Korea’s Green Pivot	0
Perceived Protest Efficacy: How Economic and Diplomatic Ties with China Influence Support for Anti-China Protests Over South China Sea Disputes	0
Violence and Impunity: Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines and the 2022 Elections	0
Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020	0
A Bridge over Troubled Waters?: New Developments in Chinese Foreign Relations	0
China's Policy Response to Nancy Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan: The Influence of Nationalism Revisited	0
South Asia on the Move: Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers	0
Climate Change and The Production of Knowledge	0
The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China	0
Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of a Dominant-coalition System: Malaysia's Tortured Partisan Path	0
The Geographic Scope Of Opposition Challenges In Malaysia's Parliament	0
Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan	0
Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Diversity within the Family in South Korea	0
Mobilized and Polarized: Social Media and Disinformation Narratives in the 2022 Philippine Elections	0
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India	0
Governing Asymmetric Interdependence Networks: How Network Position and Institutional Power Shape US Hypersecuritization and Japanese Strategic Desecuritization of Submarine Cable Policies	0
Economic Coercion and Grey Zone Competition: Reassessing the China-Australia Case	0
Between Surveillance and Freedom: Techno-Politics in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Education, Control, and the Knowledge Economy in Southeast Asia's Hybrid Regimes	0
Pension Withdrawals and the Paradox of Social Protection in Vietnam	0
Uncoupling Conceptual Understandings and Political Preferences: A Study of Democratic Attitudes among Singapore's Highly Educated Young People	0
Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan	0
Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: Shifting Capacity under a Fragmented Political Leadership	0
"This is Not the 90s": Myanmar and Change in ASEAN's Normative Order	0
Cracking The Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge	0
Gerrymandering and its Effects in Singapore's 2025 General Elections	0
The Role of Fear and Memory in West Papua's Ethnonationalist Conflict	0
Contours of Precarity: A Perspective on Vulnerability and Insecurity in Southeast Asia	0
Food Security or Food Sovereignty? Agricultural Technology Reforms after the Famine in North Korea	0
Perception, Lived Experiences, and Survival Strategies for Everyday Violence: A Case Study of Civil War in Myanmar	0
Globalization of Arms Production And Hierarchical Market Economies: Explaining the Transformation of the South Korean Defense Industry	0
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898–1918	0
Valence Rules: Explaining Opposition Party Performance in Singapore's 2025 General Elections	0
Appendix: Perceived Protest Efficacy	0
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore	0
Silences of the Dam: The Intimate Geographies of Ethnic Lao Well-Being on the Sesan River	0
CHINA’S CHANCE TO LEAD: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization	0
Failed Autocratization: Malaysia under Najib Razak (2009–2018)	0
Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West	0
Bargaining between Giants: Reassessing South Korea’s Military Options in a Taiwan War	0
A Politics of Mobility and B/ordering in a Changing Riverscape in Cambodia	0
China's Historical Statecraft: The Construction of Lost Territories in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Taiwan, and the South China Sea	0
We Are Brothers but Not Allies: The Sino-DPRK Alliance Revisited	0
Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Singapore as a Migration Hub for Students from China	0
Hidden Wars: Gendered Political Violence in Asia’s Civil Conflicts	0
Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century	0
We Are Brothers but Not Allies: The Sino-DPRK Alliance Revisited	0