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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	19
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	18
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	18
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	16
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	12
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	12
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	10
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	10
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	10
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	9
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	9
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	8
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	8
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	8
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	8
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	8
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	7
Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*	7
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	7
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	7
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	7
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	7
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	7
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
Institutional factors in china’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	6

Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	6
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	6
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	5
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	5
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	5
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	5
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	5
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	5
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	5
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	4
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	4
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	4
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan	4
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	4
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy	4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries	4
Whither (de)globalisation? Internet fragmentation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Liberal International Order: evidence from China	3
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic	3
Mongolia becoming a permanent neutral nation? Focusing on the debate and challenges of the permanent neutral nation policy	3
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea	3
Arm, to disarm: North Korea’s Cold War anti-nuclearism	3
Indigenous peoples activism on climate change in Southeast Asia: the role of regional scalar bridging organizations	3
Correction notice	3
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	3
Propaganda beyond state borders: the deployment of symbolic resources to mobilize political support among the Chinese diaspora	3
Making sense of Thailand’s agency in changing global and regional environments	3
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	3
Minimal peace in Northeast Asia: a realist-liberal explanation	3
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	2
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	2
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	2
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	2
The political economy of agricultural trade liberalization in Northeast Asia: comparisons with the West and between Japan and Korea	2
Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence: quality infrastructure as a diplomatic tool	2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	2
Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances	2
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s	2
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific	2
Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking	2
Problematising China’s soft power: setbacks of Confucius Institutes and the decentralisation of its international language and culture promotion strategy	2
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	2
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness	2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	2
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition	2
Sitting in silence or standing in protests: endogenous dynamics behind Vietnam foreign policy and the 2014 oil rig crisis	2
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?	2

China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific	1
CICA and China’s soft balancing act towards the US	1
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	1
The Technopolitics of THAAD in East Asia	1
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	1
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	1
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	1
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	1
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	1
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–2021	1
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights	1
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power	1
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency	1
Territorial disputes, the role of leaders and the impact of Quad: a triangular explanation of China-India border escalations	1
The paradox of youth engagement: the role of young people in historical and contemporary Southeast Asian peace	1
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	1
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives	1
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	1
Whose victory? A perspective on shifts in US-China cross-border data flow rules in the AI era	1
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	1
China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?	1
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	1
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law	1
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	1
Reflection and implication: Methodology and theorising	1