OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Southeast Asia 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
BOOK REVIEW: Nothing Is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam, by Ted Osius	23
BOOK REVIEW: On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea., by Gregory B. Poling	19
BOOK REVIEW: Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The Memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot�s Aide-de-Camp, and the Role of Ratanakiri and Its Tribal Minorities on the Cambodian Revolution, by Henri Locard	14
Dictators Never Die: Political Transition, Dynastic Regime Recovery and the 2021 Suharto Commemoration in Indonesia	8
International Relations as a Discipline in Cambodia: Still Nascent but Developing	7
From Nom Banh Chok to the Funan Techo Canal: Action Logic and Strategic Evolution of the Cambodian People's Party's Nationalist Mobilization	6
The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes By Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand	6
BOOK REVIEW: Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia, edited by Astrid Nor�n-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani and Anders Uhlin	5
BOOK REVIEW: Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border, by Andrew Ong	5
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil-Military Relations in Asia Edited by Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne	4
Introduction: Partnership or Polarization? Southeast Asian Security between India and China	4
Hedging Without Strategy: Bureaucratic Politics, Strategic Environment and the Reorientation of the Philippines� China Policy	4
No Regime Change in Myanmar, So Far: Exploring the Conceptual Chains between Civil Resistance and Junta Repression	4
BOOK REVIEW: Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos, by Ryan Wolfson-Ford	4
BOOK REVIEW: Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution, edited by Michael K. Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand	3
How do Filipinos Remember Their History? A Descriptive Account of Filipino Historical Memory	3
BOOK REVIEW: United Front: Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam’s Single Party Legislature., by Paul Schuler	3
Local Actions, Global Impact: Women's Agency in Timor-Leste and Pragmatic Indonesia-Timor-Leste Relations Through a Decolonial Lens	3
China�s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy, by Dylan Loh	3
BOOK REVIEW: Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, by James A. Tyner	3
Roundtable: Philippine Elections 2022	3
BOOK REVIEW: Middle Powers in Asia Pacific Multilateralism: A Differential Framework, by Sarah Teo	2
BOOK REVIEW: A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Détente with Russia and China, by Jittipat Poonkham	2
BOOK REVIEW: The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific. Edited by John D. Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui	2
BOOK REVIEW: Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand, by Yoshinori Nishizaki	2

Authority or Authoritarian? The Democratic Threats behind Indonesia�s New Capital City	2
BOOK REVIEW: Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline. By Ken M.P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomas	2
Promoting the Rules-Based Regional Order: Japan�s Judicial Diplomacy in Southeast Asia	2
Introduction: Southeast Asia in Global IR-A Reflexive Stocktaking in Research and Teaching	2
Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice, and National Recovery Edited by Robin Biddulph and Alexandra Kent	1
Roundtable: Backlash, Bailiwicks, and Beacons: Unpacking the 2025 Philippine Midterm Elections	1
Strengthening or Weakening Political Parties? Party Financing in Thailand After the 2014 Military Coup	1
Orchestrating Fear: How Thailand�s Establishment Uses Fear to Maintain Authoritarian Rule	1
BOOK REVIEW: Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development, by Anto Mohsin	1
BOOK REVIEW: Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah and the End of Empire, 1945-1965, by David R. Saunders	1
Grey Zone Conflict in the South China Sea: The Challenges for Indonesian Maritime Security Governance	1
Beyond Binaries: Southeast Asia�s Maritime Security Cooperation with China and India	1
BOOK REVIEW: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Myanmar 2021 and Beyond, by Kai Chen	1
Evaluating Japan�s South China Sea Policy: A Qualified Success?	0
BOOK REVIEW: Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew�s Strategic Thought, by Ang Cheng Guan	0
BOOK REVIEW: Religious Pluralism in Indonesia: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy, edited by Chiara Formichi	0
Roundtable: Making Sense of Thailand�s 14 May 2023 General Elections	0
�Bamboo Stuck in the Chinese Wind�: The Continuing Significance of the China Factor in Thailand�s Foreign Policy Orientation	0
Introduction: Domestic Determinants of Southeast Asia�s Relations with the United States and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand, by Petra Alderman	0
Does Institutional Activism Strengthen Democracy? A Case Study of Agrarian and Anti-Corruption Movements in Indonesia	0
Go East or North? Recalibrating Defence Modernization in a Post-Russia Southeast Asia	0
Food Self-Sufficiency in Indonesia Through the Job Creation Law: The Struggle Between the Presidency and Parliament	0
BOOK REVIEW: Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea, by Kei Koga	0
ASEAN’s Socialization of Myanmar: Perilous Ambivalence, the 2021 Coup and the Way Forward	0
Ethno-Religious Identity and Mobilization: Examining Framing Strategies of Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia in Malaysia	0
Advancing Global IR from a Thai Perspective: Opportunities for Pre-theorization and Conceptualization	0
Clientelism Rewired: Interim Leadership and Electoral Manipulation in Indonesia's 2024 Presidential Elections	0
Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct, edited by Indu Saxena and Stephen Nagy	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, by Vicente L. Rafael	0
Abandoning Hedging: Reconsidering Southeast Asian Alignment Choices	0
Discipline over Exceptionalism: Singapore-based Scholars, Regional Sensitivities and the Appeal of Anglophone International Relations Approaches	0
BOOK REVIEW: State of Disorder: Privatised Violence and the State in Indonesia, by Abdil Mughus Mudhoffir	0
Presidential Agency and Indonesia's Ratification of the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution	0
Promoting Global IR under the Dominance of Mainstream Theories and the Liberalization of Universities: Reflections from Indonesia	0
Affective Polarization in West Malaysia: The Dynamics and Consequences of the Politics of Othering in the 2022 General Elections	0
The Rise of Religious Brokerage: Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia�s 2024 Presidential Elections	0
BOOK REVIEW: Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation, by Phill Wilcox	0
Status-seeking through Disaster Relief Cooperation: China and India in Southeast Asia	0
Explaining Hedging: The Case of Malaysian Equidistance	0
BOOK REVIEW: Beijing�s Global Media Offensive: China�s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World, by Joshua Kurlantzick	0
Cyber Terror, the Academic Anti-corruption Movement and Indonesian Democratic Regression	0
The Domestic Determinants of Hedging in Singapore�s Foreign Policy	0
Understanding the Institutional Challenge of Indo-Pacific Minilaterals to ASEAN	0
BOOK REVIEW: Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises, edited by Anoma P. van der Veere, Florian Schneider and Catherine Yukpi	0
BOOK REVIEW: Pukul Habis: Total Wipeout: A Story of War in Malaysia and Singapore, by David Boey	0
The Rise and Fall of the Palang Pracharath Party in Thailand: The Problems of Patronage-Oriented Authoritarian Party Building	0
BOOK REVIEW: A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed, by Bill Hayton	0
BOOK REVIEW: What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia, by Ismail Fajrie Alatas	0
From Foes to Friends: China and the United States in Laos� Foreign Policy	0

BOOK REVIEW: Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Outwitted the CIA, by Patrick Winn	0
Non-Interference versus Self-Determination: ASEAN�s Cold War Normative Framework	0
From �Joint Development� to �Independent Development�: China�s Hydrocarbon Standoffs in the South China Sea	0
Conclusion: The State of IR in Southeast Asia-Heavily Western but Still Evolving	0
BOOK REVIEW: Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945, by Kirsten Schulze	0
Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power, by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine	0
Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State, by Eve Warburton	0
BOOK REVIEW: Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar, by Jacques Bertrand, Alexandre Pelletier and Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung	0
From Periphery to Centre: The Self-evolution of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Committee	0
BOOK REVIEW: Reconstructing Japan’s Security Policy: The Role of Military Crises, by Bhubhindar Singh	0
BOOK REVIEW: Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening-and Closing, by Erin Murphy	0
The Grey Zone of Chinese Capital: Online Gambling in Cambodia�s Sihanoukville	0
Consistency amid Seeming Shifts: Philippine Foreign Policy between the United States and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges., edited by Okamoto Masaaki and Jafar Suryomenggolo	0
Understanding the Domestic Determinants of Indonesia�s Hedging Policy towards the United States and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia, by Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken and Paul D. Hutchcroft	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia, by Neil Loughlin	0
Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore�s Housing, by Chua Beng Huat	0
Strong �Weak� Parties and �Partial Populism� in Indonesia	0
Framing ASEAN�s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup: A Strategic Resourcing Framework	0
BOOK REVIEW: China�s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy, by Yuxing Huang	0
BOOK REVIEW: Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia, edited by Helen Ting M.H. and Donald L. Horowitz	0
Jokowi's Pyrrhic Victory: Indonesia's 2024 Elections and the Political Reinvention of Prabowo Subianto	0
BOOK REVIEW: Unearthing Politics: Environment and Contestation in Post-Socialist Vietnam, by Jason Morris-Jung	0
Politics Over Prejudice? Explaining the Surprising Decline of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Parties, Patronage and COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution in Indonesia	0
Research Associate at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.	0
Towards a "Modern Monarchical Welfare Regime": Identifying the Welfare Regime of Brunei Darussalam	0
BOOK REVIEW: Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law, by Eugénie Mérieau	0
BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power, by Christian Schultheiss	0
Education Reform in Post-Coup Myanmar: Federalizing or Federating?	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation, by Ang Cheng Guan	0
Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker	0
Persistence amid Change: The Perceptions of Non-Chinese Indonesians of Chinese Indonesians and Their Economic Position	0
Central Asia and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Dynamics of Greater Engagement By Paradorn Rangsimaporn	0
BOOK REVIEW: New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d��tat, by Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong	0
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia By Marcus Mietzner	0
Fragmentation, Complexity and Cooperation: Understanding Southeast Asia’s Maritime Security Governance	0
BOOK REVIEW: Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies, by Elvin Ong	0
BOOK REVIEW: Hatta and Indonesia�s Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Evan A. Laksmana and Lina Alexandra	0
The 15th General Elections in Malaysia: Party Polarization, Shifting Coalitions and the Hung Parliament	0
Teaching International Relations in the Philippines: Opening Spaces While Maintaining Traditional Approaches	0
Between Integration and Differentiation: International Relations Studies and the Promise of Global IR in Vietnam	0
China and India�s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Security Partnerships in Southeast Asia	0
BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Maritime Security, by Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds	0
BOOK REVIEW: Crafting Parliament in Myanmar�s Disciplined Democracy (2011-2021), by Renaud Egreteau	0
BOOK REVIEW: In Search of Justice in Thailand�s Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women�s Narratives, edited by John Clifford Holt	0
BOOK REVIEW: Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia, by Abby Seiff	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Power Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice, by Julie Bernath	0