OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 3. 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
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
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

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
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	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
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
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	3
The post-Bashir era in Sudan: tragedy or remedy?	3