OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pacific Review is 3. 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
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency	6
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
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	5
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

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
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights	3
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