OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of International Politics 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Use and Misuse of East Asian History in IR Theorizing	41
Southeast Asia amid Sino-US Competition: Power Shift and Regional Order Transition	34
US–China Economic Rivalry and the Reshoring of Global Supply Chains	26
Relationalism(s) Unpacked: Engaging Yaqing Qin’s Theory of World Politics	24
The End of the Liberal International Order? Globalization, Deep Contestation, and the Future	15
A Bargaining Theory of US–China Economic Rivalry: Differentiating the Trade and Technology Wars	15
Hedging in Non-Traditional Security: The Case of Vietnam’s Disaster Response Cooperation	12
China’s Multi-Front Institutional Strategies in International Development Finance	12
Globalization, Primacy, and the US–China Tech War in “Emerging and Foundational Technologies”	12
Neoclassical Realism: Methodological Critiques and Remedies	11
Dispositional Balancing and Hegemonic Order: US Response to China’s Financial Statecraft	10
Bundling Threats: Why Dominant Perceptions of China Changed in Europe	8
Paving Their Own Road? Local Chinese and World Bank Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa	8
Relational Order, Harmonizing Power and Effective Leadership	8
Six Alternatives to War, One Solution for Peace: The Pacifying Effect of Civil Society	8
Correction to: Before the Nation-State: Civilizations, World Orders, and the Origins of Global International Relations	8
Balancing Away from War: How the USA and China Can Side-step the Thucydides’ Trap	7
Why there is Now Non-Western International Relations Theory	7
Interstate order shaped by decision-makers’ actions	6
How Institution-Building Shapes Great Power Alignment: An Institutional Perspective on the China–Russia Partnership	6
Signaling status through public goods: China, the United States, and the global leadership deficit	6
Upgrading the Paradigm of Leadership Analysis	6
Non-Western Interpolity Orders and Sociocultural Forces: the shi in the Early Modern East Asian Order	6
The American Tributary System Revisited	5
Decoding US–China Strategic Competition: Comparative Leverages and Issue Selection	5

Toward Global Excellence: Two Decades of Exploration at CJIP and Beyond	5
Correction to: Chinese Public Opinion about US–China Relations from Trump to Biden	5
A Relational Analysis of Exceptionalism: Connecting Liberalism with Confucian Multilateralism and Emotion	4
Weaponised Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Practices of Human–Machine Interaction	4
Multiple Modernities in Civilizational Perspective: An Assessment of the Global Civilization(s) Initiative	4
Of Risk and Threat: How the United States Perceives China’s Rise	4
How Epistemic Community Shapes Global Governance of AI in Military Domain?	4
The Contender’s Momentum? COVID-19 and IO Relations in the Regime Complex of Financial Assistance	4
The Technopolitics of State and Region-Building: Examining China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Its Southwestern Frontier and Southeast Asia	3
Toward Sino-American Ideological Clash? The Lasswellian World Revolution Approach	3
Manufactured Deterrence: Bridging China’s Nuclear Strategy and Practice	3
Is There a Chinese School of IR Theory?	3
Back to what future: leadership and instability in Europe in the New Cold War	3
Polarity and Strategic Competition: A Structural Explanation of Renewed Great Power Rivalry	3
A New Synthesis among IR Theories? Moral Leadership in International Relations	2
Coalition Building and Sino–US Competition in the Digital Era	2
Economic Development and Warlikeness	2
The Zhongyong Dialectic: A Bridge into the Relational World	2
Before the Nation-State: Civilizations, World Orders, and the Origins of Global International Relations	2
Forum: Debating the Chinese School(s) of IR Theory	2
The Chinese School of IR Theory: Ignored Process, Controversial Progress, and Uncertain Prospects	2
The Relevance of Deep Pluralism for China’s Foreign Policy	2