OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Review is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise of China’s status: a relational approach	18
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	17
Balance of power, balance of alignment, and China’s role in the regional order transition	16
Special issue on the ‘sources of peace and peaceful change in East Asia’¹	12
China-Russia technology cooperation in space: Mutually needed or mutually exclusive?	12
China’s rise in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990–2019: navigating perceptions in the relationship	12
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	10
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	9
Correction notice	8
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	8
China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South	8
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	7
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	7
Vietnam’s growing agency in the twenty-first century	7
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	5
Between market and state: the evolution of Australia’s economic statecraft	5
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’	5
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	5
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	5
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	5
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	5
Rising sun in the cyber domain: Japan’s strategic shift toward active cyber defense	5
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	5

Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	5
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	5
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	5
Informal governance and China’s influence in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	4
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	4
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	4
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	4
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	4
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	4
Responding to the crisis: Japan’s changing foreign policy and ODA to Ukraine (2014–2023)	4
The restriction of Japan’s coal-fired power plants export: explaining the shift in Abe Shinzō’s posture towards the overseas promotion of energy infrastructure	4
Refugee protection and the role of civil society: a comparative study of Japan and South Korea	3
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	3
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	3
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community’	3
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	3
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	3
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	3
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	3
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–2021	3
Mediation and Mongolia’s foreign policy	3
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	3
Beyond hedging: China’s strategic ‘outbidding’ strategy in the semi-hierarchical Gulf region	3
Regionalism, membership and leadership: insights from Asia and beyond	3
Riding the tide: assessing South Korea’s hedging strategy through regional security initiatives	2
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	2
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	2
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	2
The South China Sea fishing crisis: the overlooked role of Chinese subnational governments	2
Reinvigorating India’s ‘Act East’ Policy in an age of renewed power politics	2
How does Indonesia exercise agency in the contested and complex regional environment?	2
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	2
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	2
China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific	2
North Korean climate diplomacy: engagement, priorities, and opportunities for collaboration	2
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	2
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	2
Securitization, frame alignment, and the legitimation of US chip export controls on China	2
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	2
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	2
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	1
Securitizing Beijing through the maritime commons: the ‘China threat’ and Japan’s security discourse in the Abe era	1
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	1
Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia	1
Damming the river by feeling the stones: external shocks and policy adaptation in China’s Mekong hydropower policy	1
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific	1
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	1
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	1

Lessened allied dependence, policy tradeoffs, and undermining autonomy: focusing on the US-ROK and US-Philippines alliances	1
Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media	1
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s	1
Justifying economic coercion: the discourse of victimhood in China’s unilateral sanctions policy	1
From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?	1
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness	1
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law	1
Cambodia’s multifaceted foreign policy and agency in the making	1
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’	1
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	1
Assessing Myanmar’s trade dependence on China during the reform period of the 2010s: a sectoral value chain approach	1
Regional economic integration on China’s Inland periphery: the Jilin-Northeast Asia Case	1
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: how closely is it adopting US trade regulation?	1
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	1
Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*	1
Foreign policy consequences of democratic backsliding: the case of the Comfort Women Agreement in 2015	1
Selling "independent foreign policy" amid the US–China rivalry: populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government	1
Why do states engage in cybersecurity capacity-building assistance? Evidence from Japan	1
Stabilizing Japan–Korea relations: Restraining nationalism, appraising Beijing, reassuring Washington	1
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	1
The shift to consensus democracy and limits of institutional design in Asia	1