OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 2. 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
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	45
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	41
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	26
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	26
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	24
Exploring the factors behind the persistence of the Philippine-U.S. alliance: a focus on the changing gist of the 1951 Philippine-U.S. Mutual Defence Treaty (MDT)	23
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	22
Navigating the twin risks in alliance dilemma: South Korea's foreign policy during US-DPRK nuclear crises	22
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	18
Critical issues in contemporary China. Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, 3rd edition	17
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	15
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	15
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	14
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	13
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	12
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	12
Climate change and Australia’s national security	12
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	11
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	11
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	11
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	10
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	10
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	10

AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	10
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	10
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	9
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	9
Respect and compliance: navigating U.S. – CoFA Patron – client relations	9
Correction	9
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	8
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	8
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	8
Trusted allies or friends with benefits? Instrumental ambivalence in Filipinos’ public appraisal of China	8
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	8
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	7
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	7
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	7
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	7
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	7
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	7
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	7
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	7
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	7
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	7
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	7
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	6
Abduction versus alliance: Japan’s foreign policy, now proactive?	6
Delegating war initiation to machines	6
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	6
Court Day, not Liberation Day: option-value statecraft and the volatility premium of U.S. transactionalism in Trump’s second term	6
Toward a historical IR?	6
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	6
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	6
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	5
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	5
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	5
A complex-systems view on military decision making	5
What would Allan think?	5
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	5
Where are the international allies of Afghan women?	5
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	5
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	4
Between self-reliance and pragmatic interests: the impact of North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine on its people	4
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	4
The economic choices of Southeast Asian countries in the context of industrial relocation	4
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	4
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	4
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	4
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	4
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	4
Yolŋu diplomacy	4
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	4
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	4

Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	4
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	4
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	3
Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	3
Opening the black box of international human rights enforceability through the study of migrant rights	3
International law as a discipline in crisis	3
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	3
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	3
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	3
Navigating the transactional super-power: South Korea's adaptive agency and lessons for Indo-Pacific middle powers	3
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	3
Role conceptions and diplomatic behaviours: comparing Japan and South Korea in the South China Sea	3
Solomon Islands’ ‘Friends to all: enemy to none’ foreign policy: reconceptualising international friendship	3
What is Australia’s strategic metageography? Island, continent or archipelago?	3
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	3
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	3
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	3
Violence, vulnerability and protection on the move: interrogating the intersection of scholarship and practice on displacement	3
Voting cohesion in the UNGA: do regional organisations enhance member states’ unity beyond regional affinities?	3
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	3
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	3
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	3
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	3
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	3
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	2
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	2
Global Britain and the European north: the building of a ‘Northernsphere’ security community	2
Fragile alliances and costly signals: analyzing Russia-North Korea strategic ties	2
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	2
The new political economy of Australia—Southeast Asia engagement	2
Rethinking land compensation in Papua New Guinea: promoting long-term economic participation—the case for the Motu Koita people of the nation’s capital	2
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	2
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	2
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	2
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	2
How a no new coal mining treaty could align climate and coal mining interests ahead of COP31	2
Was sovereignty ever shared in the Solomon Islands?	2
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	2
Learning from New Zealand	2
How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks in the Indo-Pacific	2
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	2
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	2
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	2
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	2
From regional to global Islamic State of Khorasan : thematic analysis of Voice of Khorasan magazine	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	2
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	2
The origins of the ANZUS alliance	2
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	2
No future without history: the future of international law	2
How to behave in Britain : co-presencing Anglo-American forces in the Second World War	2
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	2