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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute	17
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power	12
Small states and competing connectivity strategies: what explains Bangladesh’s success in relations with Asia’s major powers?	12
China–Pakistan cooperation on Afghanistan: assessing key interests and implementing strategies	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’	9
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community’	9
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	8
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	8
Examining ASEAN’s effectiveness in managing South China Sea disputes	7
How does Indonesia exercise agency in the contested and complex regional environment?	7
Paradiplomacy as a response to international isolation: the case of Taiwan	7
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	7
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	6
Indonesian diplomats’ and foreign policy scholars’ perceptions and their implications on Indonesian foreign ministry bureaucratic responses to a rising China	6
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency	6
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	5
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	5
Middle powers amid Sino-U.S. rivalry: assessing the ‘good regional citizenship’ of Australia and Indonesia	5
Selling "independent foreign policy" amid the US–China rivalry: populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government	5
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?	5
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	5

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
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
Uneasy embrace: Vietnam’s responses to the U.S. Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy amid U.S.–China rivalry	4
Disaster governance and prospects of inter-regional partnership in the Asia-Pacific	4
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	4
Wedge strategies in Russia-Japan relations	4
Justifying economic coercion: the discourse of victimhood in China’s unilateral sanctions policy	4
Reinvigorating India’s ‘Act East’ Policy in an age of renewed power politics	4
Balance of power, balance of alignment, and China’s role in the regional order transition	4
Russia’s approach to South China Sea territorial dispute: it’s only business, nothing personal	3
Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia	3
The abyss gazes back: how North Korean propaganda interprets sanctions, threats and diplomacy	3
China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South	3
China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?	3
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	3
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	3
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	3
Abstract of crisis in Philippine-U.S. security relations: from an alliance to a security partnership?	3
China-Russia technology cooperation in space: Mutually needed or mutually exclusive?	3
The US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific in international order transition: a South Korean perspective	3
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	3
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’	3
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives	3
Between market and state: the evolution of Australia’s economic statecraft	3
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights	3
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	2
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	2
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific	2
Regional economic integration on China’s Inland periphery: the Jilin-Northeast Asia Case	2
North Korea, missile defense, and U.S.-China security dilemma	2
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	2
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition	2
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic	2
Securitizing Beijing through the maritime commons: the ‘China threat’ and Japan’s security discourse in the Abe era	2
Assessing Myanmar’s trade dependence on China during the reform period of the 2010s: a sectoral value chain approach	2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	2
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	2
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	2
Propaganda beyond state borders: the deployment of symbolic resources to mobilize political support among the Chinese diaspora	2
Reflection and implication: Methodology and theorising	2
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	2
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: how closely is it adopting US trade regulation?	2
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	2
China’s rise in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990–2019: navigating perceptions in the relationship	2
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	2
The spiral model, scope conditions, and contestation in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights	1
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	1
Responding to the crisis: Japan’s changing foreign policy and ODA to Ukraine (2014–2023)	1

The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	1
Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking	1
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	1
Negotiating ‘access’ to the international ‘rules-based order’: Taiwan’s South China Sea policy	1
The shift to consensus democracy and limits of institutional design in Asia	1
Cybersecurity in the U.S.-Philippine alliance: mission seep	1
North Korean climate diplomacy: engagement, priorities, and opportunities for collaboration	1
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	1
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	1
Territorial disputes, the role of leaders and the impact of Quad: a triangular explanation of China-India border escalations	1
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific	1
The productive power of rising China and national identities in South Korea and Thailand	1
China’s rise, Guanxi, and primary institutions	1
Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances	1
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea	1
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	1
Mediation and Mongolia’s foreign policy	1
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	1
Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*	1
Mongolia becoming a permanent neutral nation? Focusing on the debate and challenges of the permanent neutral nation policy	1
Sources of peace in East Asia: interdependence, institutions, and middle powers	1
Stabilizing Japan–Korea relations: Restraining nationalism, appraising Beijing, reassuring Washington	1
Sitting in silence or standing in protests: endogenous dynamics behind Vietnam foreign policy and the 2014 oil rig crisis	1
Why do states engage in cybersecurity capacity-building assistance? Evidence from Japan	1