OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pacific Review is 5. 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
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
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
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
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
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	9
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	9
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
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
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	7

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
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
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
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