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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	43
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	41
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	25
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	23
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	23
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	22
Critical issues in contemporary China. Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, 3rd edition	21
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	21
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	18
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	17
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)	15
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	14
Climate change and Australia’s national security	14
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	14
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	13
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	12
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	12
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	12
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	11
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	11
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	11
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	11
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	11

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

Violence, vulnerability and protection on the move: interrogating the intersection of scholarship and practice on displacement	3
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	3
Navigating the transactional super-power: South Korea's adaptive agency and lessons for Indo-Pacific middle powers	3
International law as a discipline in crisis	3
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	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
Correction	3
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	3
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	3
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	3
What is Australia’s strategic metageography? Island, continent or archipelago?	3
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	3
Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	3
Yolŋu diplomacy	3
Opening the black box of international human rights enforceability through the study of migrant rights	3
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	3
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	3
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	3
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	3
Solomon Islands’ ‘Friends to all: enemy to none’ foreign policy: reconceptualising international friendship	3
From regional to global Islamic State of Khorasan : thematic analysis of Voice of Khorasan magazine	2
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	2
Fragile alliances and costly signals: analyzing Russia-North Korea strategic ties	2
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	2
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	2
How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks in the Indo-Pacific	2
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	2
2024 South Korean martial law crisis: lessons for the democratic resilience	2
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	2
Was sovereignty ever shared in the Solomon Islands?	2
How to behave in Britain : co-presencing Anglo-American forces in the Second World War	2
How a no new coal mining treaty could align climate and coal mining interests ahead of COP31	2
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	2
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	2
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	2
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	2
The new political economy of Australia—Southeast Asia engagement	2
The origins of the ANZUS alliance	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
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	2
Learning from New Zealand	2
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	2
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	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
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	2
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	2
The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?	2
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	2
No future without history: the future of international law	2
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	2
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	2
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	2