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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	33
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	26
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	25
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	16
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
Strategic responses and regional pressures: Malaysia in the U.S.-China semiconductor competition	12
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	12
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	12
The growing space intelligence cooperation between South Korea and the United States	12
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	12
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	12
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	12
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	11
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	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	9
China-US competition in Africa: an international order perspective	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
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	8
To tolerate or to pressure: Beijing’s bifurcated strategy toward Russia’s role in China’s territorial disputes with India and Vietnam	8
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	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
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	6
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
Reconciling revisionism with the status quo in IR: Indonesia’s foreign policy and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific	6
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	6
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	6
Vietnam’s nuanced securitization of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea	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?	5
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	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