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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics	24
Australia the ‘good international citizen’? The limits of a traditional middle power	19
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	14
Contradictions in Australia's Pacific Islands discourse	13
Structural sources of Malaysia's South China Sea policy: power uncertainties and small-state hedging	13
Japan’s new arms export policies: strategic aspirations and domestic constraints	12
Threat perception, government centralization, and political instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan	12
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	10
Handling COVID-19 with big data in China: increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’?	9
The trajectory of ODA’s strategic use and reforms – from Nakasone Yasuhiro to Abe Shinzō	9
Diplomatic and security practice under Abe Shinzō: the case for Realpolitik Japan	8
An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability	8
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	8
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	7
The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific: Free, open, prosperous, inclusive?	7
The US-Taliban peace deal and India’s strategic options	7
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	7
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	6
Strategic competition and the evolving role of Indo-Pacific paradiplomacy	6
Geopolitics of landlocked states in South Asia: a comparative analysis of Afghanistan and Nepal	6
The role of informal political actors in Japanese security policymaking: the case of Kitaoka Shin’ichi	6
Explaining China’s Lancang-Mekong cooperation as an institutional balancing strategy: dragon guarding the water	6
Military dominance in Pakistan and China–Pakistan relations	6
Explaining Japan’s post-Cold War security policy trajectory: maritime realism	5

US-China COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy competition in Vietnam: where vaccines go, influence may follow	5
Democracy under siege: foreign interference in a digital era	5
Explaining the asymmetry in the Sino-Indian Strategic Rivalry	5
Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory	5
Conservation Law in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: the Antarctic Treaty System, conservation, and environmental protection	5
Norm erosion and Australia's challenge to the rules-based order	5
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	5
International pressure and Japanese withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission: when shaming fails	5
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	5
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	5
Legitimating the Antarctic Treaty System: from rich nations club to planetary ecological democracy?	4
Participatory video: a new outlook for international relations research	4
India's policy on Diego Garcia and its quest for security in the Indian Ocean	4
Advancing cyber diplomacy in the Asia Pacific: Japan and Australia	4
Australian debate of the China question: the COVID-19 case	4
Australia's AUKUS ‘bet’ on the United States: nuclear-powered submarines and the future of American democracy	4
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
Climate change and Australia’s national security	3
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	3
Perceptions of terrorism in Australia: 1978–2019	3
Existential threats, shared responsibility, and Australia’s role in ‘coalitions of the obligated’	3
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	3
The impact of UN Security Council resolution 2242 in Australia, the UK and Sweden	3
Towards a typology of ceasefires: order amid violence	3
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	3
The post-Bashir era in Sudan: tragedy or remedy?	3
The promise and peril of Australian climate leadership under Albanese	3
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	3
Japan’s infrastructure export and development cooperation: the role of ODA loan projects in the 2010s	3
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	3
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century	3
The diplomatic power of small states: Mongolia’s mediation on the Korean peninsula	3