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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	25
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	23
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	19
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	17
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	14
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	13
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	13
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	12
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)	12
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	11
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	10
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	10
The future of the U.S. alliance	9
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	9
Considering the importance of autonomous weapon system design factors to future military leaders	9
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	8
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	8
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	7
Climate change and Australia’s national security	7
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	7
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	6
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	6
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	6
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	6

Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	6
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	6
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	6
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	6
Correction	6
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	5
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	5
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	5
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	5
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	5
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	5
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	5
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	5
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	4
Toward a historical IR?	4
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	4
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	4
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	4
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	4
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	4
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	3
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	3
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	3
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	3
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	3
Delegating war initiation to machines	3
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	3
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
Correction	2
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	2
International law as a discipline in crisis	2
The role of the UN Security Council in health emergencies: lessons from the Ebola response in Sierra Leone	2
The AICHR as a participatory space: contesting the secretive face of power	2
Role conceptions and diplomatic behaviours: comparing Japan and South Korea in the South China Sea	2
Can we rely on the Security Council during health emergencies?	2
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	2
What would Allan think?	2
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	2
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	2
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	2
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	2
Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	2
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	2
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	2

Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	2
Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	2
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	2
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	2
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	2
Yolŋu diplomacy	2
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	2
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	2
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	2
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	2
Assessing the maritime ‘rules-based order’ in Antarctica	2
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	2
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	2
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	2
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	2
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	2
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	2
Antarctica in the gray zone	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	1
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	1
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	1
Why International Relations should be more optimistic	1
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	1
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	1
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	1
Learning from New Zealand	1
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	1
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	1
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	1
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	1
Images of Russia in Western scholarship	1
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	1
The United Nations Security Council and health emergencies: introduction	1
Australian IR scholarship on the environment: the recent past and the possible future	1
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	1
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	1
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	1
Taming Chinese power: decoding the dynamics of Australian foreign policies toward the rise of China	1
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	1
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	1
Introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs	1
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	1
Advancing cyber diplomacy in the Asia Pacific: Japan and Australia	1
The battle of the Coral Sea: Australia’s response to the Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific	1
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	1
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	1
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	1
AUKUS as ontological security – Australian foreign policy in an age of uncertainty	1
No future without history: the future of international law	1
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	1
Going global: a future for Australian International Relations	1
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	1
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	1
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	1
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	1