OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Review is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Balance of power, balance of alignment, and China’s role in the regional order transition	17
The rise of China’s status: a relational approach	12
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	12
China’s rise in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990–2019: navigating perceptions in the relationship	10
Special issue on the ‘sources of peace and peaceful change in East Asia’¹	10
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	9
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	9
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	8
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’	8
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	7
Vietnam’s growing agency in the twenty-first century	7
China-Russia technology cooperation in space: Mutually needed or mutually exclusive?	7
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	7
China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	5
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	5
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	5
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	5
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	5
Between market and state: the evolution of Australia’s economic statecraft	5
Correction notice	5
Rising sun in the cyber domain: Japan’s strategic shift toward active cyber defense	4
Reward-based or threat-based deterrence: US policy toward Japan and South Korea in comparative perspective	4
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	4

Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	4
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	4
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	4
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	4
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	4
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	4
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	3
The restriction of Japan’s coal-fired power plants export: explaining the shift in Abe Shinzō’s posture towards the overseas promotion of energy infrastructure	3
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	3
Regionalism, membership and leadership: insights from Asia and beyond	3
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	3
Securitization, frame alignment, and the legitimation of US chip export controls on China	3
Mediation and Mongolia’s foreign policy	3
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	3
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	3
How does Indonesia exercise agency in the contested and complex regional environment?	3
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	3
Responding to the crisis: Japan’s changing foreign policy and ODA to Ukraine (2014–2023)	3
Informal governance and China’s influence in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	3
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	3
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–2021	3
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives	3
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	2
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	2
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	2
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	2
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community’	2
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	2
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	2
The South China Sea fishing crisis: the overlooked role of Chinese subnational governments	2
North Korean climate diplomacy: engagement, priorities, and opportunities for collaboration	2
Reinvigorating India’s ‘Act East’ Policy in an age of renewed power politics	2
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	2
(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute	2
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	2
Beyond hedging: China’s strategic ‘outbidding’ strategy in the semi-hierarchical Gulf region	2
China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific	2
Refugee protection and the role of civil society: a comparative study of Japan and South Korea	2
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	2
Why do states engage in cybersecurity capacity-building assistance? Evidence from Japan	1
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	1
Stabilizing Japan–Korea relations: Restraining nationalism, appraising Beijing, reassuring Washington	1
Regional economic integration on China’s Inland periphery: the Jilin-Northeast Asia Case	1
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law	1
Justifying economic coercion: the discourse of victimhood in China’s unilateral sanctions policy	1
Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia	1
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	1
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	1

Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*	1
Selling "independent foreign policy" amid the US–China rivalry: populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government	1
The shift to consensus democracy and limits of institutional design in Asia	1
Damming the river by feeling the stones: external shocks and policy adaptation in China’s Mekong hydropower policy	1
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	1
Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances	1
Foreign policy consequences of democratic backsliding: the case of the Comfort Women Agreement in 2015	1
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: how closely is it adopting US trade regulation?	1
Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media	1
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’	1
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	1
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	1
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific	1
Assessing Myanmar’s trade dependence on China during the reform period of the 2010s: a sectoral value chain approach	1
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	1
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	1