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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	29
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	28
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	19
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	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)	16
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	13
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	13
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	12
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	12
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	11
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	11
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	11
The future of the U.S. alliance	10
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	9
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	9
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	9
Climate change and Australia’s national security	9
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	9
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	8
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	8
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	8
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	8
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	8

Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	7
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	7
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	7
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	7
Correction	6
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	6
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	6
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	6
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	6
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	6
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	6
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	6
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	5
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	5
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	5
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	5
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	5
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	5
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	5
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	5
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	4
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	4
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	4
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	4
Delegating war initiation to machines	4
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	4
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	4
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	4
Toward a historical IR?	4
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	4
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	4
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	3
Yolŋu diplomacy	3
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	3
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Antarctica in the gray zone	3
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	3
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	3
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	3
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	3
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	3
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	3
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	3

The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	3
What would Allan think?	3
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	3
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	2
Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	2
The economic choices of Southeast Asian countries in the context of industrial relocation	2
The AICHR as a participatory space: contesting the secretive face of power	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	2
The battle of the Coral Sea: Australia’s response to the Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific	2
Australian IR scholarship on the environment: the recent past and the possible future	2
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	2
Images of Russia in Western scholarship	2
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	2
Introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs	2
Assessing the maritime ‘rules-based order’ in Antarctica	2
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	2
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	2
Role conceptions and diplomatic behaviours: comparing Japan and South Korea in the South China Sea	2
The role of the UN Security Council in health emergencies: lessons from the Ebola response in Sierra Leone	2
Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	2
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	2
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	2
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	2
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	2
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	2
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	2
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	2
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	2
From regional to global Islamic State of Khorasan : thematic analysis of Voice of Khorasan magazine	2
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	2
Can we rely on the Security Council during health emergencies?	2
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	2
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	2
Correction	2
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	2
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	2
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	2
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	2
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	2
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	2
The United Nations Security Council and health emergencies: introduction	2
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	2
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	2
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	2
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	2
International law as a discipline in crisis	2
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	1
The origins of the ANZUS alliance	1
Learning from New Zealand	1
Where east and west meet	1
The diplomatic power of small states: Mongolia’s mediation on the Korean peninsula	1
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’	1
From Ayungin to Escoda: lessons for Manila’s sea denial quest in the West Philippine Sea	1
The modes and modalities of cross-regional security cooperation: innovations in alliance management and strategic coordination	1
2024 South Korean martial law crisis: lessons for the democratic resilience	1
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	1
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	1
Going global: a future for Australian International Relations	1
No future without history: the future of international law	1
Holding contradictions: toward the lawful carriage of Indigenous diplomacy	1
Deter, detain, deport and demonise: should others follow the Australian crimmigration model?	1
Examining the Philippines’ China policy: great powers and domestic politics	1
Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?	1
An international relations discipline for tempestuous times	1
AUKUS as ontological security – Australian foreign policy in an age of uncertainty	1
Taming Chinese power: decoding the dynamics of Australian foreign policies toward the rise of China	1
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	1
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	1
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	1
The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?	1
China’s dual signalling in maritime disputes	1
Minilateralism and global governance: effectiveness of hybrid models	1
Bridging regions, forging new modes of cooperation: the US track record on cross-regional security cooperation	1
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations	1
Transmission interrupted: Australia’s international television broadcasting	1
How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks in the Indo-Pacific	1
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	1
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	1