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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	19
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	18
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	18
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	16
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	12
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	12
From former foes to friends: strategic adjustment in America’s security policy toward Vietnam and the influence of the China factor	10
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	10
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	10
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	9
Understanding region formation through proximity, interests, and identity: debunking the Indo-Pacific as a viable regional demarcation	9
Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft	8
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy: dynamics of Myanmar’s international relations and the genocide of the Rohingya	8
Technological hedging and differentiated responses of Southeast Asian countries to U.S.–China technological competition: a case study on artificial intelligence (AI)	8
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order: the case from East Asia	8
Myanmar’s struggle for survival: vying for autonomy and agency	8
Japan’s contribution to peace, prosperity & sustainability: energy transitions in the Indo-Pacific region*	7
Road through a broken place: the BRI in post-coup Myanmar	7
Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies	7
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises: motives and perceived benefits for Japan	7
Sino-Russian rapprochement after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	7
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation	7
International norms clash with China’s consumer nationalism	7
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	6
Institutional factors in china’s norm contestation in global governance: international regime complexes of peacebuilding and climate change	6

Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	6
Aesthetic strategic narratives and political artwork: revisiting the Australia-China spat over Wuheqilin’s Peace Force illustration	6
Patient capital, corporate governance and investment in digital innovation: what can Japan learn from South Korea’s experience?	5
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	5
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	5
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	5
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	5
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	5
Of constraints and opportunities. Dependent asymmetry in China-Myanmar relations, 2011–2021	5
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	5
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	5
‘Our region is now a strategic theatre’: New Zealand’s balancing response to China	4
Walking on eggshells: politicizing Sino-ROK semiconductor technological ties in the shadow of Sino-US rivalry	4
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan	4
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative: rhetorical action, acceptance, entrapment, and appropriation?	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
Vietnam’s hedging amid U.S.-China Mekong rivalry: risk management under uncertainties	4
The interplay of China and Gulf countries in third-party market dynamics: an asymmetric competition perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative	4