Pacific Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Pacific Review is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense38
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–202126
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia22
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis21
Convergence without coordination: East Asia’s developmental peace in the Middle East17
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach16
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers14
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation13
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific13
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor13
Beyond decolonization: mutual learning in the bidirectional dynamics of Chinese and Western IR theories13
The growing space intelligence cooperation between South Korea and the United States13
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 202112
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition12
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 Asia11
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation11
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies10
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan10
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration9
Strategic complementarity and hedging: middle-power defense cooperation between South Korea and the UAE9
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft9
Inter-Korean relations and the end of peaceful reunification: a social conflict approach9
China-US competition in Africa: an international order perspective8
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar8
Institutional factors in China’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change8
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam8
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism7
From contest to convergence in East Asia: why do regional challengers end up resembling incumbent institutions?7
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine7
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents7
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific6
Multidirectional altercasting among middle powers: role alignment in Western Pacific maritime security6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry6
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery6
‘Is it good or is it bad?’: minilateralism and its effects on the Indo-Pacific security architecture5
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific5
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific5
Escaping the ‘European noose’, embracing a Chinese one? Serbia’s selective alignment with the EU criteria5
Vietnam’s nuanced securitization of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea5
Reconciling revisionism with the status quo in IR: Indonesia’s foreign policy and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific5
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?4
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership4
Correction4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries4
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?4
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China4
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy4
Informality and maritime intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: the Quad’s IPMDA as a networked governance experiment4
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
Risk tolerance and domestic nationalism response demand: explaining South China Sea claimants’ responses to China (2010–2025)4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative4
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