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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Religion as a Tool of Influence: Buddhism and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia	9
Introduction to Special Issue: The Cambodian People's Party's Turn to Hegemonic Authoritarianism: Strategies and Envisaged Futures	8
Civilian Resistance and the Failure of the Indonesian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Nduga, West Papua	7
Malapportionment in Myanmar’s Elections: A Slumbering Menace	7
Youth Mobilization, Power Reproduction and Cambodia’s Authoritarian Turn	6
Towards “Emergent Federalism” in Post-coup Myanmar	6
Authoritarian Constitutional Borrowing and Convergence in Cambodia	5
Understanding the Institutional Challenge of Indo-Pacific Minilaterals to ASEAN	5
China's Role in the Cambodian People's Party's Quest for Legitimacy	5
Special Economic Zones and the Need for Proper Governance: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia	4
Research Associate at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.	4
Beyond Personalism: Elite Politics and Political Families in Cambodia	4
Motherhood Identity in the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Elections: Populism and Political Division in the National Women’s Movement	3
Green in the Heart of Red: Understanding Phayao Province’s Switch to Palang Pracharat in Thailand’s 2019 General Election	3
Roundtable: Global Pandemic, Local Politics: COVID-19 in Urban Southeast Asia	3
Fragmentation, Complexity and Cooperation: Understanding Southeast Asia’s Maritime Security Governance	3
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia	3
Resolving Land-Use Conflicts over Indonesia’s Customary Forests: One Map, Power Contestations and Social Justice	3
Promoting Global IR under the Dominance of Mainstream Theories and the Liberalization of Universities: Reflections from Indonesia	2
The Failure of Agricultural-based Economic Development in Thailand's Far South and the Impact on the Insurgency	2
Naming and Shaming China: America’s Strategy of Rhetorical Coercion in the South China Sea	2
Understanding the Evolution of “Khaki Capital” in Thailand: A Historical Institutionalist Perspective	2
The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century	2
From Periphery to Centre: The Self-evolution of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Committee	2
Cyber Terror, the Academic Anti-corruption Movement and Indonesian Democratic Regression	2

Under Beijing’s Shadow: Southeast Asia’s China Challenge	2
Explaining Hedging: The Case of Malaysian Equidistance	2
The Inchoate Legislative Scrutiny of the Myanmar Police Forces: A Study of the USDP Legislature (2011-16)	2
Plural Partisans: Thailand's People's Democratic Reform Committee Protesters	2
Countering the Communist Imaginary: The Role of Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia’s 2014 and 2019 Presidential Elections	2
Abandoning Hedging: Reconsidering Southeast Asian Alignment Choices	2
Co-opted Social Media and the Practice of Active Silence in Cambodia	1
Between Integration and Differentiation: International Relations Studies and the Promise of Global IR in Vietnam	1
Introduction: Domestic Determinants of Southeast Asia�s Relations with the United States and China	1
The Domestic Determinants of Hedging in Singapore�s Foreign Policy	1
BOOK REVIEW: United Front: Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam’s Single Party Legislature., by Paul Schuler	1
From “Sphere of Scrutiny” to “Sphere of Opportunity”: The Cambodian People's Party's Vision of International Order	1
Roundtable: Philippine Elections 2022	1
Parties, Patronage and COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution in Indonesia	1
BOOK REVIEW: Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution, edited by Michael K. Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand	0
BOOK REVIEW: Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development, by Anto Mohsin	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: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation, by Ang Cheng Guan	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific. Edited by John D. Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui	0
BOOK REVIEW: Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America's Alliances, by Mira Rapp-Hooper	0
Vietnam: A Pathway from State Socialism.	0
Consistency amid Seeming Shifts: Philippine Foreign Policy between the United States and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Détente with Russia and China, by Jittipat Poonkham	0
BOOK REVIEW: Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. By Edyta Roszko	0
‘Observing’ the Arctic: Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond	0
The Grey Zone of Chinese Capital: Online Gambling in Cambodia�s Sihanoukville	0
BOOK REVIEW: Pukul Habis: Total Wipeout: A Story of War in Malaysia and Singapore, by David Boey	0
BOOK REVIEW: What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia, by Ismail Fajrie Alatas	0
BOOK REVIEW: Order, Contestation and Ontological Security-Seeking in the South China Sea, by Anisa Heritage and Pak K. Lee	0
Conclusion: The State of IR in Southeast Asia-Heavily Western but Still Evolving	0
Authority or Authoritarian? The Democratic Threats behind Indonesia�s New Capital City	0
BOOK REVIEW: The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations: History, Memory and Current Developments, by Gregory Raymond and John Blaxland	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
BOOK REVIEW: Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia, by David Shambaugh	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: Everyday Justice in Myanmar: Informal Resolutions and State Evasion in a Time of Contested Transition, edited by Helene Maria Kyed	0
Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000–2017.	0
BOOK REVIEW: Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew�s Strategic Thought, by Ang Cheng Guan	0
BOOK REVIEW: China�s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy, by Yuxing Huang	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, edited by Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones	0
BOOK REVIEW: Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand, by Yoshinori Nishizaki	0
BOOK REVIEW: Beijing�s Global Media Offensive: China�s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World, by Joshua Kurlantzick	0
Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand.	0
BOOK REVIEW: Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative, edited by Florian Schneider	0
BOOK REVIEW: China's Maritime Silk Road: Advancing Global Development? by Gerald Chan	0
BOOK REVIEW: Middle Powers in Asia Pacific Multilateralism: A Differential Framework, by Sarah Teo	0
Introduction: Partnership or Polarization? Southeast Asian Security between India and China	0
BOOK REVIEW: Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening-and Closing, by Erin Murphy	0
Non-Interference versus Self-Determination: ASEAN�s Cold War Normative Framework	0
BOOK REVIEW: Unearthing Politics: Environment and Contestation in Post-Socialist Vietnam, by Jason Morris-Jung	0

BOOK REVIEW: State of Disorder: Privatised Violence and the State in Indonesia, by Abdil Mughus Mudhoffir	0
Dictators Never Die: Political Transition, Dynastic Regime Recovery and the 2021 Suharto Commemoration in Indonesia	0
ASEAN’s Socialization of Myanmar: Perilous Ambivalence, the 2021 Coup and the Way Forward	0
BOOK REVIEW: On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea., by Gregory B. Poling	0
Civil-military Relations in Indonesia: The Politics of Military Operations Other Than War	0
Reconciling Pragmatism with Idealism in the European Union’s Security Cooperation with ASEAN	0
Understanding the Domestic Determinants of Indonesia�s Hedging Policy towards the United States and China	0
Advancing Global IR from a Thai Perspective: Opportunities for Pre-theorization and Conceptualization	0
BOOK REVIEW: Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies, by Elvin Ong	0
BOOK REVIEW: Towards a New Malaysia? The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath, edited by Meredith L. Weiss and Faisal S. Hazis	0
BOOK REVIEW: Children Affected by Conflict in the Borderlands of Thailand, by Kai Chen	0
Strong �Weak� Parties and �Partial Populism� in Indonesia	0
BOOK REVIEW: Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law, by Eugénie Mérieau	0
BOOK REVIEW: Overcoming Isolation: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism, by Paul Midford	0
Did Urbanization or Ethnicity Matter More in Malaysia’s 14th General Election?	0
BOOK REVIEW: Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border, by Andrew Ong	0
BOOK REVIEW: Unravelling Myanmar's Transition: Progress, Retrenchment, and Ambiguity Amidst Liberalization, edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Elliott Prasse-Freeman and Patrick Strefford	0
BOOK REVIEW: Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, by James A. Tyner	0
Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia.	0
Go East or North? Recalibrating Defence Modernization in a Post-Russia Southeast Asia	0
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	0
BOOK REVIEW: Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges., edited by Okamoto Masaaki and Jafar Suryomenggolo	0
BOOK REVIEW: Hatta and Indonesia�s Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Evan A. Laksmana and Lina Alexandra	0
BOOK REVIEW: Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation, by Phill Wilcox	0
BOOK REVIEW: China's Foreign Policy since 1978: Return to Power, by Nicholas Khoo	0
BOOK REVIEW: Crafting Parliament in Myanmar�s Disciplined Democracy (2011-2021), by Renaud Egreteau	0
The 15th General Elections in Malaysia: Party Polarization, Shifting Coalitions and the Hung Parliament	0
In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century	0
Beyond Binaries: Southeast Asia�s Maritime Security Cooperation with China and India	0
Testing for Incumbency Advantages in a Developing Democracy: Elections for Local Government Leaders in Indonesia	0
BOOK REVIEW: Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea, by Kei Koga	0
Does Institutional Activism Strengthen Democracy? A Case Study of Agrarian and Anti-Corruption Movements in Indonesia	0
BOOK REVIEW: Nothing Is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam, by Ted Osius	0
From Foes to Friends: China and the United States in Laos� Foreign Policy	0
BOOK REVIEW: Religious Pluralism in Indonesia: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy, edited by Chiara Formichi	0
BOOK REVIEW: Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia, by Abby Seiff	0
Discipline over Exceptionalism: Singapore-based Scholars, Regional Sensitivities and the Appeal of Anglophone International Relations Approaches	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change, by Mina Roces	0
BOOK REVIEW: Reconstructing Japan’s Security Policy: The Role of Military Crises, by Bhubhindar Singh	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, by Vicente L. Rafael	0
Organization without Revolution: The Labour Movement and the Failure of Democratization in Cambodia	0
Framing ASEAN�s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup: A Strategic Resourcing Framework	0
Introduction: Southeast Asia in Global IR-A Reflexive Stocktaking in Research and Teaching	0
International Relations as a Discipline in Cambodia: Still Nascent but Developing	0
Vietna’s Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War.	0
How do Filipinos Remember Their History? A Descriptive Account of Filipino Historical Memory	0
BOOK REVIEW: Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia, edited by Helen Ting M.H. and Donald L. Horowitz	0
BOOK REVIEW: Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline. By Ken M.P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomas	0
BOOK REVIEW: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Power Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice, by Julie Bernath	0
Teaching International Relations in the Philippines: Opening Spaces While Maintaining Traditional Approaches	0
BOOK REVIEW: Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia, edited by Astrid Nor�n-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani and Anders Uhlin	0
The Politics of Forest Fires in Southeast Asia	0
Tracking Development Cooperation Contributions to ASEAN Integration and Community Building: Options for the ASEAN Secretariat,	0
BOOK REVIEW: Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand, by Petra Alderman	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: Rivalry and Response: Assessing Great Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia, edited by Jonathan R. Stromseth	0
Status-seeking through Disaster Relief Cooperation: China and India in Southeast Asia	0
Evaluating Japan�s South China Sea Policy: A Qualified Success?	0
India’s Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy	0
BOOK REVIEW: A History of Cambodia-Thailand Diplomatic Relations 1950-2020, by Sok Udom Deth	0
China and India�s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Security Partnerships in Southeast Asia	0
Roundtable: Making Sense of Thailand�s 14 May 2023 General Elections	0
From �Joint Development� to �Independent Development�: China�s Hydrocarbon Standoffs in the South China Sea	0
�Bamboo Stuck in the Chinese Wind�: The Continuing Significance of the China Factor in Thailand�s Foreign Policy Orientation	0
BOOK REVIEW: A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed, by Bill Hayton	0