OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 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
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	13
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	13
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
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	12
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	11
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	10
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	10
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
The future of the U.S. alliance	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
Climate change and Australia’s national security	7
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	7
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	2
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	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
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	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
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	2
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	2
Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	2
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	2
Antarctica in the gray zone	2

Correction	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
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	2
What would Allan think?	2
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	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
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	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