OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	45
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	41
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	26
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	26
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	24
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)	23
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	22
Navigating the twin risks in alliance dilemma: South Korea's foreign policy during US-DPRK nuclear crises	22
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	18
Critical issues in contemporary China. Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, 3rd edition	17
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	15
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	15
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	14
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	13
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	12
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	12
Climate change and Australia’s national security	12
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	11
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	11
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	11
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	10
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	10
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	10

AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	10
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	10
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	9
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	9
Respect and compliance: navigating U.S. – CoFA Patron – client relations	9
Correction	9
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	8
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	8
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	8
Trusted allies or friends with benefits? Instrumental ambivalence in Filipinos’ public appraisal of China	8
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	8
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	7
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	7
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	7
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	7
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	7
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	7
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	7
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	7
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	7
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	7
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	7
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	6
Abduction versus alliance: Japan’s foreign policy, now proactive?	6
Delegating war initiation to machines	6
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	6
Court Day, not Liberation Day: option-value statecraft and the volatility premium of U.S. transactionalism in Trump’s second term	6
Toward a historical IR?	6
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	6
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	6
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	5
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	5
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	5
A complex-systems view on military decision making	5
What would Allan think?	5
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	5
Where are the international allies of Afghan women?	5
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	5