OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pacific Review is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	38
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	26
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	22
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	21
Convergence without coordination: East Asia’s developmental peace in the Middle East	17
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	16
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	14
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	13
Beyond decolonization: mutual learning in the bidirectional dynamics of Chinese and Western IR theories	13
The growing space intelligence cooperation between South Korea and the United States	13
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	13
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	13
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	12
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition	12
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	11
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	11
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	11
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	10
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	10
Strategic complementarity and hedging: middle-power defense cooperation between South Korea and the UAE	9
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	9
Inter-Korean relations and the end of peaceful reunification: a social conflict approach	9
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	9
Institutional factors in China’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	8
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	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	7
From contest to convergence in East Asia: why do regional challengers end up resembling incumbent institutions?	7
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	7
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	7
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	6
Multidirectional altercasting among middle powers: role alignment in Western Pacific maritime security	6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	5
Escaping the ‘European noose’, embracing a Chinese one? Serbia’s selective alignment with the EU criteria	5
Vietnam’s nuanced securitization of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea	5
Reconciling revisionism with the status quo in IR: Indonesia’s foreign policy and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific	5
‘Is it good or is it bad?’: minilateralism and its effects on the Indo-Pacific security architecture	5
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	5
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	4
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	4
METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan’s African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy	4
Informality and maritime intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: the Quad’s IPMDA as a networked governance experiment	4
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	4
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	4
Risk tolerance and domestic nationalism response demand: explaining South China Sea claimants’ responses to China (2010–2025)	4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	4
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	4
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	4
Correction	4
Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries	4