OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
The Use and Misuse of East Asian History in IR Theorizing	36
Local Politics and Fluctuating Engagement with China: Analysing the Belt and Road Initiative in Maritime Southeast Asia	33
US–China Economic Rivalry and the Reshoring of Global Supply Chains	30
Southeast Asia amid Sino-US Competition: Power Shift and Regional Order Transition	28
Relationalism(s) Unpacked: Engaging Yaqing Qin’s Theory of World Politics	22
A Bargaining Theory of US–China Economic Rivalry: Differentiating the Trade and Technology Wars	15
Dispositional Balancing and Hegemonic Order: US Response to China’s Financial Statecraft	10
Globalization, Primacy, and the US–China Tech War in “Emerging and Foundational Technologies”	10
Hedging in Non-Traditional Security: The Case of Vietnam’s Disaster Response Cooperation	10
Neoclassical Realism: Methodological Critiques and Remedies	10
China’s Multi-Front Institutional Strategies in International Development Finance	9
“e-breakout”? Weaponised Interdependence and the Strategic Dimensions of China’s Digital Currency	9
Paving Their Own Road? Local Chinese and World Bank Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa	9
Correction to: Before the Nation-State: Civilizations, World Orders, and the Origins of Global International Relations	8
Bundling Threats: Why Dominant Perceptions of China Changed in Europe	7
Balancing Away from War: How the USA and China Can Side-step the Thucydides’ Trap	7
Six Alternatives to War, One Solution for Peace: The Pacifying Effect of Civil Society	6
Why there is Now Non-Western International Relations Theory	6
Upgrading the Paradigm of Leadership Analysis	6
Toward Sino-American Ideological Clash? The Lasswellian World Revolution Approach	5
How Institution-Building Shapes Great Power Alignment: An Institutional Perspective on the China–Russia Partnership	5
Decoding US–China Strategic Competition: Comparative Leverages and Issue Selection	5
Multiple Modernities in Civilizational Perspective: An Assessment of the Global Civilization(s) Initiative	5
A Relational Analysis of Exceptionalism: Connecting Liberalism with Confucian Multilateralism and Emotion	5
Non-Western Interpolity Orders and Sociocultural Forces: the shi in the Early Modern East Asian Order	5

How Epistemic Community Shapes Global Governance of AI in Military Domain?	5
Of Risk and Threat: How the United States Perceives China’s Rise	5
Correction to: Chinese Public Opinion about US–China Relations from Trump to Biden	5
Is There a Chinese School of IR Theory?	5
The Resistance and Resilience of National Image Building: An Empirical Analysis of Confucius Institute Closures in the USA	4
Polarity and Strategic Competition: A Structural Explanation of Renewed Great Power Rivalry	4
The Contender’s Momentum? COVID-19 and IO Relations in the Regime Complex of Financial Assistance	4
Weaponised Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Practices of Human–Machine Interaction	4
Is the China Effect Real? Ideational Change and the Political Contestation of Chinese State-Led Investment in Europe	4
Revisiting “Leadership” in Global Climate Governance: China’s Normative Engagement with the CBDRs Principle	3
Before the Nation-State: Civilizations, World Orders, and the Origins of Global International Relations	3
A New Synthesis among IR Theories? Moral Leadership in International Relations	3
When Do Established Powers Support Rising Powers’ Multilateral Institutions? The Case of the Asian Development Bank	3
The Chinese School of IR Theory: Ignored Process, Controversial Progress, and Uncertain Prospects	3
Manufactured Deterrence: Bridging China’s Nuclear Strategy and Practice	3
The Technopolitics of State and Region-Building: Examining China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Its Southwestern Frontier and Southeast Asia	3
The Zhongyong Dialectic: A Bridge into the Relational World	3