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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	19
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	19
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	17
Preparing for transitional justice in North Korea	17
Australia, the British Empire, and the League of Nations	10
Iranian overtures to Indonesia: Why? and Why now?	10
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	9
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	8
Why the quad is not squaring off in the South China Sea: evaluating interests, objectives and capacity	8
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	8
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	8
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	7
Assessing the maritime ‘rules-based order’ in Antarctica	7
The AICHR as a participatory space: contesting the secretive face of power	7
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	7
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	6
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)	6
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	6
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	6
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	6
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	6
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	6
Can we rely on the Security Council during health emergencies?	6
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	6
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	6

‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	6
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	6
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	5
An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	5
Advantages, opportunities and benefits of AUKUS Pillar 2 for New Zealand	5
China and the Australia-New Zealand alliance: the importance of loyal opposition	5
Same bed, different nightmares: strategic divergence in the Australia-New Zealand alliance	5
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	5
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	5
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	4
Indigenous foreign policy: the challenges of survivalism before and after the era of Western dominance	4
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	4
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	4
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	4
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Implications of the UN Common Agenda for Australia: Renewing Multilateralism	3
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	3
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	3
Australia's AUKUS ‘bet’ on the United States: nuclear-powered submarines and the future of American democracy	3
Explaining China’s Lancang-Mekong cooperation as an institutional balancing strategy: dragon guarding the water	3
The battle of the Coral Sea: Australia’s response to the Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific	3
Middle-power behaviours: Australia’s status-quoist/Lockean and Indonesia’s reformist/Kantian approaches to crises of legitimacy in the Indo-Pacific	3
Considering the importance of autonomous weapon system design factors to future military leaders	3
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	3
The future of the U.S. alliance	3
The United Nations Security Council and health emergencies: introduction	3
The role of artificial intelligence in nuclear crisis decision making: a complement, not a substitute	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
Australia’s signing of the Artemis Accords: a positive development or a controversial choice?	3
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	3