OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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)	40
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	36
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	21
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	18
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	18
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	18
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	18
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	17
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	17
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	17
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	15
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	14
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	12
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	11
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	11
Climate change and Australia’s national security	11
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	10
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	10
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	10
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	10
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	10
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	10
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	9

Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	9
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	9
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	8
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	8
Correction	8
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	8
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	8
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	7
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	7
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	7
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	6
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	6
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	6
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	6
Delegating war initiation to machines	6
Respect and compliance: navigating U.S. – CoFA Patron – client relations	6
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	6
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	6
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	6
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	6
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	6
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	6
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	6
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	6
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	6
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	5
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	5
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	5
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	5
Toward a historical IR?	5
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	5
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	5
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	5
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	5
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	5
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	5
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	4
A complex-systems view on military decision making	4
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	4
Antarctica in the gray zone	4
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	4
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	4
What would Allan think?	4
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	4
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	4
Between self-reliance and pragmatic interests: the impact of North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine on its people	4
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	4
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	4
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	4
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	4

A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	4
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	4
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	4