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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	41
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	26
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	24
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	22
Convergence without coordination: East Asia’s developmental peace in the Middle East	18
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	16
The growing space intelligence cooperation between South Korea and the United States	14
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	14
Beyond decolonization: mutual learning in the bidirectional dynamics of Chinese and Western IR theories	14
Demystifying the transparency initiative in the West Philippine Sea amid China’s influence operations against the Marcos Jr. Administration	13
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	13
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	13
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	12
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	11
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	11
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition	11
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	11
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	11
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	10
Strategic complementarity and hedging: middle-power defense cooperation between South Korea and the UAE	9
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	9
Inter-Korean relations and the end of peaceful reunification: a social conflict approach	9
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	9
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	9
Institutional factors in China’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	8

Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	7
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	7
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	7
China-US competition in Africa: an international order perspective	7
Multidirectional altercasting among middle powers: role alignment in Western Pacific maritime security	6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
From contest to convergence in East Asia: why do regional challengers end up resembling incumbent institutions?	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	6
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	5
‘Is it good or is it bad?’: minilateralism and its effects on the Indo-Pacific security architecture	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 nuanced securitization of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea	5
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	5
Reconciling revisionism with the status quo in IR: Indonesia’s foreign policy and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific	5
Escaping the ‘European noose’, embracing a Chinese one? Serbia’s selective alignment with the EU criteria	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	4
Correction	4
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	4
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries	4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	4
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	4
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	4
Risk tolerance and domestic nationalism response demand: explaining South China Sea claimants’ responses to China (2010–2025)	4
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	4
Continuity or change? A role-theoretical analysis of China’s developing country role (2015–2025)	4
Informality and maritime intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: the Quad’s IPMDA as a networked governance experiment	4
Mongolia becoming a permanent neutral nation? Focusing on the debate and challenges of the permanent neutral nation policy	3
UK and its China agenda: navigating the New Cold War	3
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	3
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	3
The pendulum between hedging and bandwagoning: explaining Cambodia’s foreign policies towards China and the United States (1999–2022) from the perspective of regime security	3
What drives the Sino-Russian partnership? Regime insecurity, aggressive overreach, and authoritarian great power alignment	3
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea	3
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy	3
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan	3
Ontological insecurity and the routinization of securitization: EU–DPRK relations beyond material threat	3
The evolution of the Chinese position on UN Security Council reform: changes in power and normative strategies	3
India-Philippines in the Indo-Pacific: an emerging strategic partnership	3
Weaponized paradiplomacy in and around Taiwan: subnational engagement as strategic tool in Sino-Japanese competition	3
Whither (de)globalisation? Internet fragmentation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Liberal International Order: evidence from China	3
Indigenous peoples activism on climate change in Southeast Asia: the role of regional scalar bridging organizations	3
Correction notice	3
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	3
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic	3
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition	2
Territorial disputes, the role of leaders and the impact of Quad: a triangular explanation of China-India border escalations	2

The EU and its China agenda: limited cooperation under rising tensions	2
Strategic statecraft or symbolic coercion? A comparative study of trump’s tariff doctrine in China and India	2
Minilateralism: a new page for Indo-Pacific IR lexicon	2
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness	2
Bundling policy and business in Chinese overseas development finance: opportunities and risks in ‘maturity mismatch’ of multiple goals	2
Who would defend Kinmen and Matsu (and what is Wuchiu?): Taiwanese public opinion on outlying islands	2
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific	2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	2
Strategic arbitrage and the twilight of Pacific Islands hedging	2
Empire of the stars—not yet? China as a ‘partial’ great power in space	2
Sitting in silence or standing in protests: endogenous dynamics behind Vietnam foreign policy and the 2014 oil rig crisis	2
All politics is local: sociopolitical regime and China’s railway infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia	2
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	2
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s	2
Coopetition framework: the co-existence of competition and cooperation in the age of US-China rivalry	2
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	2
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	2
Bridging the Pacific: Chile and Uruguay’s positioning in the face of China’s rise	2
Problematising China’s soft power: setbacks of Confucius Institutes and the decentralisation of its international language and culture promotion strategy	1
Resilient against the odds: Huawei’s resurgence after U.S. sanctions	1
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	1
The paradox of youth engagement: the role of young people in historical and contemporary Southeast Asian peace	1
How Viktor Orbán plays China: the hidden agency of ‘China’s best friend in the EU’	1
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	1
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	1
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	1
Evolution of Japan’s defence strategic communication: the case of Indo-Pacific deployment	1
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	1
Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking	1
Fragmented sovereignty: how Belgium’s policy paralysis undermines Europe’s China ‘de-risking’ strategy	1
Selective engagement under exclusion: Taiwan’s state and corporate ESG and SDG strategies	1
Hindsight is AN/TPY-2: revisiting the role of Chinese nuclear strike in decision making around the Korea THAAD episode	1
Reconciliation as a norm diffusion mechanism: the case of Japan and human security	1
Japan’s continental turn in a multipolar Eurasia: connectivity and engagement with the Turkic world	1
A small state in big power politics: the securitisation or riskification of Sino-Irish relations	1
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	1
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising Regional Security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific	1
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	1
The Technopolitics of THAAD in East Asia	1
China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?	1
Less dependent on China? The ASEAN region and Germany’s “de-risking” strategy	1
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	1
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	1