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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	33
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	27
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)	27
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	26
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	24
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	24
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	18
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	18
India and Taiwan’s evolving entente commerciale: trade and informal defense cooperation between Taiwan-India	17
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	17
Critical issues in contemporary China. Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, 3rd edition	16
Navigating the twin risks in alliance dilemma: South Korea's foreign policy during US-DPRK nuclear crises	16
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	15
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	15
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	14
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
Climate change and Australia’s national security	13
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	12
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	12
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
Respect and compliance: navigating U.S. – CoFA Patron – client relations	10
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	10

Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	10
Climate feminism for export only? Australia’s domestic and foreign gendered climate governance at the Janus Sieve	10
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	10
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	10
Correction	10
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	10
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	10
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	9
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	9
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	9
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	9
Trusted allies or friends with benefits? Instrumental ambivalence in Filipinos’ public appraisal of China	9
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	9
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	8
Reframing China and Japan’s strategic partnerships with ASEAN: converging interests or competing perceptions?	8
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	8
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	8
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	7
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	7
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	7
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	7
Toward a historical IR?	7
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	7
Delegating war initiation to machines	7
Abduction versus alliance: Japan’s foreign policy, now proactive?	6
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	6
Court Day, not Liberation Day: option-value statecraft and the volatility premium of U.S. transactionalism in Trump’s second term	6
Consolidating gender apartheid: five years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan	6
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	6
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	5
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	5
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	5
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	5
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	5
Where are the international allies of Afghan women?	5
A complex-systems view on military decision making	5
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	4
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	4
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	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
The U.S. alliance and public attitudes toward China: evidence from the Asia-Pacific region	4
Between self-reliance and pragmatic interests: the impact of North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine on its people	4
The economic choices of Southeast Asian countries in the context of industrial relocation	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
What would Allan think?	4
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	4
Yolŋu diplomacy	4
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	4