Pacific Review

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia18
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis18
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense17
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–202115
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure13
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach12
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers12
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific11
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 20219
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor9
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency8
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya8
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)8
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation8
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft7
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies7
Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*7
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation7
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan6
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia6
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents5
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging5
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry5
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine5
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration5
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific5
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism5
Institutional factors in china’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change5
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery5
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital5
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar5
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific4
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership4
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries4
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific4
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?4
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties4
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–20214
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?4
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry4
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy3
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative3
Indigenous peoples activism on climate change in Southeast Asia: the role of regional scalar bridging organizations3
China’s rise, Guanxi, and primary institutions3
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea3
Arm, to disarm: North Korea’s Cold War anti-nuclearism3
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic3
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan3
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific3
Propaganda beyond state borders: the deployment of symbolic resources to mobilize political support among the Chinese diaspora3
Minimal peace in Northeast Asia: a realist-liberal explanation3
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state2
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership2
Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea2
Making sense of Thailand’s agency in changing global and regional environments2
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan2
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies2
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?2
Whither (de)globalisation? Internet fragmentation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Liberal International Order: evidence from China2
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy2
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace2
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness2
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s2
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific2
Mongolia becoming a permanent neutral nation? Focusing on the debate and challenges of the permanent neutral nation policy2
Correction notice2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’2
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition1
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances1
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia1
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power1
Sources of peace in East Asia: interdependence, institutions, and middle powers1
Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking1
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights1
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency1
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives1
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development1
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict1
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture1
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers1
Territorial disputes, the role of leaders and the impact of Quad: a triangular explanation of China-India border escalations1
The Technopolitics of THAAD in East Asia1
The political economy of agricultural trade liberalization in Northeast Asia: comparisons with the West and between Japan and Korea1
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making1
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems1
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region1
Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence: quality infrastructure as a diplomatic tool1
Bolstering middle power standing: South Korea's response to U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy from Trump to Biden1
Problematising China’s soft power: setbacks of Confucius Institutes and the decentralisation of its international language and culture promotion strategy1
China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific1
Sitting in silence or standing in protests: endogenous dynamics behind Vietnam foreign policy and the 2014 oil rig crisis1
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law1
China’s contestation of the liberal international order1
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–20211
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation1
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