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Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Review is 2. 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
The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations	23
Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: an analysis of China’s infrastructure provision in Malaysia	21
Adoption, accommodation or opposition? - regional powers respond to American-led Indo-Pacific strategy	16
(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute	16
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power	12
Norm contestation, statecraft and the South China Sea: defending maritime order	12
China–Pakistan cooperation on Afghanistan: assessing key interests and implementing strategies	11
Small states and competing connectivity strategies: what explains Bangladesh’s success in relations with Asia’s major powers?	11
Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence: quality infrastructure as a diplomatic tool	10
Bolstering middle power standing: South Korea's response to U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy from Trump to Biden	10
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’	8
Constructing rights in Taiwan: the feminist factor, democratization, and the quest for global citizenship	7
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	7
How does Indonesia exercise agency in the contested and complex regional environment?	7
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	7
Paradiplomacy as a response to international isolation: the case of Taiwan	6
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	6
Examining ASEAN’s effectiveness in managing South China Sea disputes	6
Beyond infrastructure: re-thinking China’s foreign direct investment in Malaysia	6
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency	6
Balancing effectiveness with geo-economic interests in multilateral development banks: the design of the AIIB, ADB and the World Bank in a comparative perspective	6
The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific	5
Delayed ratification in environmental regimes: Indonesia’s ratification of the ASEAN agreement on transboundary haze pollution	5
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	5
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?	5

Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	5
The human rights gap in the Taiwan Strait: how China pushes Taiwan towards the US	5
Indonesian diplomats’ and foreign policy scholars’ perceptions and their implications on Indonesian foreign ministry bureaucratic responses to a rising China	5
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community’	5
Embryonic forms of private environmental governance in Northeast Asia	5
ASEAN’s role expectations and the diffusion of common but differentiated responsibilities principle in the climate change context	4
Reinvigorating India’s ‘Act East’ Policy in an age of renewed power politics	4
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	4
Conditioning a stable sustainability fix of ‘ungreen’ infrastructure in Indonesia: transnational alliances, compromise, and state’s strategic selectivity	4
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law	4
Disaster governance and prospects of inter-regional partnership in the Asia-Pacific	4
China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific	4
Vietnam’s growing agency in the twenty-first century	4
Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia	4
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	4
Selling "independent foreign policy" amid the US–China rivalry: populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government	4
To escape or embrace reactors? the politics of nuclear phase-out in Germany and South Korea	4
Balance of power, balance of alignment, and China’s role in the regional order transition	4
Middle powers amid Sino-U.S. rivalry: assessing the ‘good regional citizenship’ of Australia and Indonesia	4
Uneasy embrace: Vietnam’s responses to the U.S. Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy amid U.S.–China rivalry	4
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights	3
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	3
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	3
The stakes in decoupling discovery: China’s role in transnational innovation	3
Abstract of crisis in Philippine-U.S. security relations: from an alliance to a security partnership?	3
China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?	3
The US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific in international order transition: a South Korean perspective	3
Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia	3
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’	3
Fearful states: the migration-security nexus in Northeast Asia	3
China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South	3
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	3
Justifying economic coercion: the discourse of victimhood in China’s unilateral sanctions policy	3
Russia’s approach to South China Sea territorial dispute: it’s only business, nothing personal	3
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	3
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives	3
Regional economic integration on China’s Inland periphery: the Jilin-Northeast Asia Case	2
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	2
Between market and state: the evolution of Australia’s economic statecraft	2
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	2
Reflection and implication: Methodology and theorising	2
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	2
Assessing Myanmar’s trade dependence on China during the reform period of the 2010s: a sectoral value chain approach	2
North Korea, missile defense, and U.S.-China security dilemma	2
China-Russia technology cooperation in space: Mutually needed or mutually exclusive?	2
Propaganda beyond state borders: the deployment of symbolic resources to mobilize political support among the Chinese diaspora	2
Wedge strategies in Russia-Japan relations	2
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific	2
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: how closely is it adopting US trade regulation?	2
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	2

China’s rise in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990–2019: navigating perceptions in the relationship	2
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	2
Securitizing Beijing through the maritime commons: the ‘China threat’ and Japan’s security discourse in the Abe era	2