OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of International Affairs 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
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	17
Contradictions in Australia's Pacific Islands discourse	17
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	16
An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Structural sources of Malaysia's South China Sea policy: power uncertainties and small-state hedging	14
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	10
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	10
Handling COVID-19 with big data in China: increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’?	9
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	8
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	8
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	8
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	8
Democracy under siege: foreign interference in a digital era	7
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	7
Military dominance in Pakistan and China–Pakistan relations	7
Norm erosion and Australia's challenge to the rules-based order	7
Explaining China’s Lancang-Mekong cooperation as an institutional balancing strategy: dragon guarding the water	7
US-China COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy competition in Vietnam: where vaccines go, influence may follow	6
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	6
Explaining the asymmetry in the Sino-Indian Strategic Rivalry	6
Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory	6
Australia's AUKUS ‘bet’ on the United States: nuclear-powered submarines and the future of American democracy	6
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century	6
Legitimating the Antarctic Treaty System: from rich nations club to planetary ecological democracy?	6
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	6

New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	5
Conservation Law in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: the Antarctic Treaty System, conservation, and environmental protection	5
Advancing cyber diplomacy in the Asia Pacific: Japan and Australia	5
Coming into the Cold: China’s interests in the Antarctic	4
Japan’s infrastructure export and development cooperation: the role of ODA loan projects in the 2010s	4
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	4
Australian debate of the China question: the COVID-19 case	4
Climate change and Australia’s national security	4
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	4
Existential threats, shared responsibility, and Australia’s role in ‘coalitions of the obligated’	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	3
The post-Bashir era in Sudan: tragedy or remedy?	3
The promise and peril of Australian climate leadership under Albanese	3
The impact of UN Security Council resolution 2242 in Australia, the UK and Sweden	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
Australia’s signing of the Artemis Accords: a positive development or a controversial choice?	3
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	3
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	3
The diplomatic power of small states: Mongolia’s mediation on the Korean peninsula	3
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	3
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	3
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	3
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	3
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	3
The role of artificial intelligence in nuclear crisis decision making: a complement, not a substitute	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	3
The battle of the Coral Sea: Australia’s response to the Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific	2
Indigenous foreign policy: the challenges of survivalism before and after the era of Western dominance	2
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	2
China and the United States: the case for smart appeasement	2
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	2
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	2
Introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs	2
Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?	2
A new leadership amidst Japan’s ongoing energy transition	2
Antarctica in the gray zone	2
Considering the importance of autonomous weapon system design factors to future military leaders	2
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	2
How gender socialization is improving women’s representation in Indonesia’s Foreign affairs: breaking the ceiling	2
Antarctic Treaty System at 60: fit for the future?	2
Australia’s indigenous diplomacy and its regional resonance in Oceania	2
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	2
Still avoiding Armageddon: neglected antecedents and the future promise of Australian normative IR theory	2
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’	2
Wasatiyyahand Hamas's modulating positions on the two-state solution and Israel: finding the middle path	2
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	2

Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	2
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	2
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)	2
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	2
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	2
Negotiating meanings and processes: ‘same, but different’ in contemporary Aboriginal diplomacy	2
Yolŋu diplomacy	2
Prestige, power, principles and pay-off: middle powers negotiating international conventional weapons treaties	2
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations	2
Comparing organisational and alternative regional citizenships: the case of ‘Entrepreneurial regional citizenship’ in ASEAN	2
Examining the Philippines’ China policy: great powers and domestic politics	2
Exploring the China factor in Japan’s foreign and security policy in outer space	1
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	1
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	1
The AUKUS debate in New Zealand misses the big picture	1
America’s pandemic election	1
Delegating war initiation to machines	1
Can we rely on the Security Council during health emergencies?	1
The role of the UN Security Council in health emergencies: lessons from the Ebola response in Sierra Leone	1
Assessing the maritime ‘rules-based order’ in Antarctica	1
Populism and trade	1
Minilateralism and global governance: effectiveness of hybrid models	1
Learning the right policy lessons from Beijing’s campaign of trade disruption against Australia	1
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	1
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	1
Transmission interrupted: Australia’s international television broadcasting	1
Global values or national interest? Public opinion towards foreign aid in Australia	1
The United Nations Security Council and health emergencies: introduction	1
Land rights in peacebuilding discourse: domination and resistance in Timor-Leste’s Ita Nia Rai program	1
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	1
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	1
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	1
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	1
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	1
Middle power legitimation strategies: the case of Indonesia and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific	1
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	1
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	1
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	1
Images of Russia in Western scholarship	1
In the same boat—a case for trans-Tasman strategic integration	1
Why the quad is not squaring off in the South China Sea: evaluating interests, objectives and capacity	1
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	1
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	1
Explaining Brazil’s inconsistent engagement in global economic governance: neither accommodation or contestation, but both	1
Fifty years of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs: from external to internal	1
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	1
The end of the ‘lucky country’? Understanding the failure of the AUKUS policy debate	1
Middle powers and minilateralism against hybrid threats in the Indo-Pacific: South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan	1
Human-AI cognitive teaming: using AI to support state-level decision making on the resort to force	1
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	1
Holding contradictions: toward the lawful carriage of Indigenous diplomacy	1
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	1