OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Review 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	29
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	22
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	21
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	17
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	14
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	14
Beyond decolonization: mutual learning in the bidirectional dynamics of Chinese and Western IR theories	12
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	12
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	12
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	11
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	11
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	11
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	11
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition	11
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	11
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	10
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	10
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	10
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	9
China-US competition in Africa: an international order perspective	9
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	9
Institutional factors in china’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	8
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	8
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	8
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	8

Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	8
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	8
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	6
Vietnam’s nuanced securitization of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea	6
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	6
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	6
From contest to convergence in East Asia: why do regional challengers end up resembling incumbent institutions?	6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	6
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	5
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	5
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	5
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy	5
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	5
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	5
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	5
Making sense of Thailand’s agency in changing global and regional environments	4
Arm, to disarm: North Korea’s Cold War anti-nuclearism	4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries	4
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	4
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan	4
Minimal peace in Northeast Asia: a realist-liberal explanation	4
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea	4
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	3
Indigenous peoples activism on climate change in Southeast Asia: the role of regional scalar bridging organizations	3
Whither (de)globalisation? Internet fragmentation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Liberal International Order: evidence from China	3
The evolution of the Chinese position on UN Security Council reform: changes in power and normative strategies	3
What drives the Sino-Russian partnership? Regime insecurity, aggressive overreach, and authoritarian great power alignment	3
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic	3
The pendulum between hedging and bandwagoning: explaining Cambodia’s foreign policies towards China and the United States (1999–2022) from the perspective of regime security	3
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	3
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	3
Mongolia becoming a permanent neutral nation? Focusing on the debate and challenges of the permanent neutral nation policy	3
Correction notice	3
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness	2
Minilateralism: a new page for Indo-Pacific IR lexicon	2
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	2
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific	2
Sitting in silence or standing in protests: endogenous dynamics behind Vietnam foreign policy and the 2014 oil rig crisis	2
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power	2
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	2
Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances	2
Elite role conceptions and Indonesia’s agency in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: reclaiming leadership	2
All politics is local: sociopolitical regime and China’s railway infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia	2
Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking	2

Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition	2
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s	2
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?	2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	2
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	2
Territorial disputes, the role of leaders and the impact of Quad: a triangular explanation of China-India border escalations	2
Problematising China’s soft power: setbacks of Confucius Institutes and the decentralisation of its international language and culture promotion strategy	2
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	2