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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	22
The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes By Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand	20
The Military's Disposition to Intervene in Myanmar: Sustenance and Newfound Challenges	6
From Nom Banh Chok to the Funan Techo Canal: Action Logic and Strategic Evolution of the Cambodian People's Party's Nationalist Mobilization	6
BOOK REVIEW: Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia, edited by Astrid Nor�n-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani and Anders Uhlin	6
BOOK REVIEW: Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border, by Andrew Ong	6
BOOK REVIEW: Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos, by Ryan Wolfson-Ford	5
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil-Military Relations in Asia Edited by Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne	5
No Regime Change in Myanmar, So Far: Exploring the Conceptual Chains between Civil Resistance and Junta Repression	5
China�s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy, by Dylan Loh	4
Hedging Without Strategy: Bureaucratic Politics, Strategic Environment and the Reorientation of the Philippines� China Policy	4
Introduction: Partnership or Polarization? Southeast Asian Security between India and China	4
BOOK REVIEW: Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, by James A. Tyner	3
Local Actions, Global Impact: Women's Agency in Timor-Leste and Pragmatic Indonesia-Timor-Leste Relations Through a Decolonial Lens	3
BOOK REVIEW: Middle Powers in Asia Pacific Multilateralism: A Differential Framework, by Sarah Teo	3
Promoting the Rules-Based Regional Order: Japan�s Judicial Diplomacy in Southeast Asia	3
BOOK REVIEW: Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand, by Yoshinori Nishizaki	3
Authority or Authoritarian? The Democratic Threats behind Indonesia�s New Capital City	3
Grey Zone Conflict in the South China Sea: The Challenges for Indonesian Maritime Security Governance	2
Strengthening or Weakening Political Parties? Party Financing in Thailand After the 2014 Military Coup	2
Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice, and National Recovery Edited by Robin Biddulph and Alexandra Kent	2
BOOK REVIEW: Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development, by Anto Mohsin	2
Orchestrating Fear: How Thailand�s Establishment Uses Fear to Maintain Authoritarian Rule	2
Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct, edited by Indu Saxena and Stephen Nagy	1
Central Asia and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Dynamics of Greater Engagement By Paradorn Rangsimaporn	1

Roundtable: Backlash, Bailiwicks, and Beacons: Unpacking the 2025 Philippine Midterm Elections	1
Beyond Compliance: The Impact of International Arbitration on the South China Sea Disputes	1
BOOK REVIEW: Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945, by Kirsten Schulze	1
BOOK REVIEW: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Myanmar 2021 and Beyond, by Kai Chen	1
The 15th General Elections in Malaysia: Party Polarization, Shifting Coalitions and the Hung Parliament	1
BOOK REVIEW: Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar, by Jacques Bertrand, Alexandre Pelletier and Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung	1
Beyond Binaries: Southeast Asia�s Maritime Security Cooperation with China and India	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
BOOK REVIEW: A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed, by Bill Hayton	0
BOOK REVIEW: Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Outwitted the CIA, by Patrick Winn	0
BOOK REVIEW: Pukul Habis: Total Wipeout: A Story of War in Malaysia and Singapore, by David Boey	0
BOOK REVIEW: Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand, by Petra Alderman	0
The Rise and Fall of the Palang Pracharath Party in Thailand: The Problems of Patronage-Oriented Authoritarian Party Building	0
BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power, by Christian Schultheiss	0
Beyond Government: Assessing Parliamentary Influence over Malaysia's South China Sea Policy, 2000-25	0
Explaining Hedging: The Case of Malaysian Equidistance	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
Politics Over Prejudice? Explaining the Surprising Decline of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Ethno-Religious Identity and Mobilization: Examining Framing Strategies of Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia in Malaysia	0
Strong �Weak� Parties and �Partial Populism� in Indonesia	0
Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power, by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine	0
Status-seeking through Disaster Relief Cooperation: China and India in Southeast Asia	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia, by Neil Loughlin	0
BOOK REVIEW: Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew�s Strategic Thought, by Ang Cheng Guan	0
The Grey Zone of Chinese Capital: Online Gambling in Cambodia�s Sihanoukville	0
BOOK REVIEW: Hatta and Indonesia�s Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Evan A. Laksmana and Lina Alexandra	0
Affective Polarization in West Malaysia: The Dynamics and Consequences of the Politics of Othering in the 2022 General Elections	0
Consistency amid Seeming Shifts: Philippine Foreign Policy between the United States and China	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
Parties, Patronage and COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution in Indonesia	0
BOOK REVIEW: Unrequited Love: Duterte's China Embrace. By Marites Danguilan Vitug and Camille Elemia	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
BOOK REVIEW: Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea, by Kei Koga	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Power Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice, by Julie Bernath	0
BOOK REVIEW: China�s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy, by Yuxing Huang	0
Framing ASEAN�s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup: A Strategic Resourcing Framework	0
Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore�s Housing, by Chua Beng Huat	0
Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker	0
BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Maritime Security, by Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Vietnam People's Army: From People's Warfare to Military Modernization? By Zachary Abuza	0
BOOK REVIEW: Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia, edited by Helen Ting M.H. and Donald L. Horowitz	0
BOOK REVIEW: New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d��tat, by Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong	0
BOOK REVIEW: Crafting Parliament in Myanmar�s Disciplined Democracy (2011-2021), by Renaud Egreteau	0
The Rise of Religious Brokerage: Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia�s 2024 Presidential Elections	0
Responsive Centralism: The Political and Regulatory Landscape of Vietnam's Digital Transformation	0
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia By Marcus Mietzner	0
Abandoning Hedging: Reconsidering Southeast Asian Alignment Choices	0

Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State, by Eve Warburton	0
Clientelism Rewired: Interim Leadership and Electoral Manipulation in Indonesia's 2024 Presidential Elections	0
From Foes to Friends: China and the United States in Laos� Foreign Policy	0
Education Reform in Post-Coup Myanmar: Federalizing or Federating?	0
Introduction: Domestic Determinants of Southeast Asia�s Relations with the United States and China	0
Go East or North? Recalibrating Defence Modernization in a Post-Russia Southeast Asia	0
Evaluating Japan�s South China Sea Policy: A Qualified Success?	0
The Domestic Determinants of Hedging in Singapore�s Foreign Policy	0
Persistence amid Change: The Perceptions of Non-Chinese Indonesians of Chinese Indonesians and Their Economic Position	0
BOOK REVIEW: Beijing�s Global Media Offensive: China�s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World, by Joshua Kurlantzick	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Third Indochina War: An International History. By Ang Cheng Guan	0
BOOK REVIEW: Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds. By Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo	0
Presidential Agency and Indonesia's Ratification of the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution	0
Food Self-Sufficiency in Indonesia Through the Job Creation Law: The Struggle Between the Presidency and Parliament	0
The Pheu Thai Party's Decline in the 2023 Thai General Elections: An Analysis of Chiang Mai's Provincial Results	0
BOOK REVIEW: Malaysia-China Relations: Progress, Partnership, Prospects. Edited by Chow Bing Ngeow	0
China and India�s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Security Partnerships in Southeast Asia	0
Understanding the Domestic Determinants of Indonesia�s Hedging Policy towards the United States and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges., edited by Okamoto Masaaki and Jafar Suryomenggolo	0
BOOK REVIEW: Blue Security in the Indo-Pacific. Edited by Ian Hall, Troy Lee-Brown and Rebecca Strating	0
Jokowi's Pyrrhic Victory: Indonesia's 2024 Elections and the Political Reinvention of Prabowo Subianto	0
Does Institutional Activism Strengthen Democracy? A Case Study of Agrarian and Anti-Corruption Movements in Indonesia	0
Towards a "Modern Monarchical Welfare Regime": Identifying the Welfare Regime of Brunei Darussalam	0