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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	31
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	22
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	22
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	19
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	15
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	14
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	12
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	12
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition	12
Beyond decolonization: mutual learning in the bidirectional dynamics of Chinese and Western IR theories	12
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	11
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	11
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	11
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	11
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	11
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	11
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	11
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	9
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	9
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	8
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	8
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	8
Institutional factors in china’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	8
China-US competition in Africa: an international order perspective	8
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	7

Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	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
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	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
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	6
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	6
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	5
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	5
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	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
Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea	4
Minimal peace in Northeast Asia: a realist-liberal explanation	4
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy	4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries	4
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan	4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	4
Arm, to disarm: North Korea’s Cold War anti-nuclearism	4
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
Using COVID-19 as opportunity: the role of the AIIB’s leadership in its strategic adaptation to the pandemic	3
Correction notice	3
The agency of secondary states in order transition in the Indo-Pacific	3
Whither (de)globalisation? Internet fragmentation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Liberal International Order: evidence from China	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
Indigenous peoples activism on climate change in Southeast Asia: the role of regional scalar bridging organizations	3
Strategic statecraft or symbolic coercion? A comparative study of trump’s tariff doctrine in China and India	2
Tilting the playing field: government strategies to bolster control over policy paths in Japan and South Korea	2
The struggle for influence: Vietnam’s economic statecraft in Laos and Cambodia and its effectiveness	2
Why Russia has botched diplomacy with Japan: comparisons of 2013–23 and the late 1980s	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
The transformation of asymmetry: the evolution of Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea policies and the asymmetry of attention	2
Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace	2
Beyond territorial defense…? The U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a ‘Taiwan Strait contingency’	2
Domestic sources of China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies	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
The evolution of the Chinese position on UN Security Council reform: changes in power and normative strategies	2
What drives the Sino-Russian partnership? Regime insecurity, aggressive overreach, and authoritarian great power alignment	2
Minilateralism: a new page for Indo-Pacific IR lexicon	2
Malaysia’s ICT sector policymaking: toward a developmental network state	2
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition	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
“Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during COVID-19: the impacts on women’s security and rights	1
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	1
The Technopolitics of THAAD in East Asia	1
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	1
The paradox of youth engagement: the role of young people in historical and contemporary Southeast Asian peace	1
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising Regional Security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific	1
China’s rise, institutional balancing, and (possible) peaceful order transition in the Asia pacific	1
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	1
Sources of peace in East Asia: interdependence, institutions, and middle powers	1
Indo-Pacific Powers: Internalization, Interpretation, and Implementation of International Law	1
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–2021	1
Reconciliation as a norm diffusion mechanism: the case of Japan and human security	1
Resilient against the odds: Huawei’s resurgence after U.S. sanctions	1
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	1
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	1
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	1
China’s contestation of the liberal international order	1
China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?	1
CICA and China’s soft balancing act towards the US	1
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	1
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	1
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	1
Japan and the new Indo-Pacific order: the rise of an entrepreneurial power	1
Hindsight is AN/TPY-2: revisiting the role of Chinese nuclear strike in decision making around the Korea THAAD episode	1
Military basing and US hegemony in post-Cold War Southeast Asia	1