OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Political warfare in the digital age: cyber subversion, information operations and ‘deep fakes’	34
International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics	24
Australia the ‘good international citizen’? The limits of a traditional middle power	19
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	14
Structural sources of Malaysia's South China Sea policy: power uncertainties and small-state hedging	12
Threat perception, government centralization, and political instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan	12
Japan’s new arms export policies: strategic aspirations and domestic constraints	12
Contradictions in Australia's Pacific Islands discourse	12
Handling COVID-19 with big data in China: increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’?	9
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	9
The trajectory of ODA’s strategic use and reforms – from Nakasone Yasuhiro to Abe Shinzō	9
The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability	8
Diplomatic and security practice under Abe Shinzō: the case for Realpolitik Japan	8
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	8
The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific: Free, open, prosperous, inclusive?	7
The US-Taliban peace deal and India’s strategic options	7
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	7
Military dominance in Pakistan and China–Pakistan relations	6
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	6
Geopolitics of landlocked states in South Asia: a comparative analysis of Afghanistan and Nepal	6
The role of informal political actors in Japanese security policymaking: the case of Kitaoka Shin’ichi	6
Explaining China’s Lancang-Mekong cooperation as an institutional balancing strategy: dragon guarding the water	6
Strategic competition and the evolving role of Indo-Pacific paradiplomacy	5
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	5
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	5

Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory	5
New Zealand and the great irresponsibles: coping with Russia, China and the US	5
Conservation Law in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: the Antarctic Treaty System, conservation, and environmental protection	5
An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Explaining the asymmetry in the Sino-Indian Strategic Rivalry	5
Explaining Japan’s post-Cold War security policy trajectory: maritime realism	5
US-China COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy competition in Vietnam: where vaccines go, influence may follow	5
Democracy under siege: foreign interference in a digital era	5
Norm erosion and Australia's challenge to the rules-based order	5
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	5
International pressure and Japanese withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission: when shaming fails	5
Legitimating the Antarctic Treaty System: from rich nations club to planetary ecological democracy?	4
Women in Australian international affairs	4
Australian debate of the China question: the COVID-19 case	4
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	4
Advancing cyber diplomacy in the Asia Pacific: Japan and Australia	4
Participatory video: a new outlook for international relations research	4
India's policy on Diego Garcia and its quest for security in the Indian Ocean	3
The post-Bashir era in Sudan: tragedy or remedy?	3
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	3
Existential threats, shared responsibility, and Australia’s role in ‘coalitions of the obligated’	3
The impact of UN Security Council resolution 2242 in Australia, the UK and Sweden	3
Australia's AUKUS ‘bet’ on the United States: nuclear-powered submarines and the future of American democracy	3
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	3
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century	3
Enabling authoritarianism in the Indo-Pacific: Australian exemptionalism	3
The promise and peril of Australian climate leadership under Albanese	3
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	3
Japan’s infrastructure export and development cooperation: the role of ODA loan projects in the 2010s	3
Towards a typology of ceasefires: order amid violence	3
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	3
Perceptions of terrorism in Australia: 1978–2019	3
The diplomatic power of small states: Mongolia’s mediation on the Korean peninsula	3
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
Climate change and Australia’s national security	3
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	3
Negotiating meanings and processes: ‘same, but different’ in contemporary Aboriginal diplomacy	2
Yolŋu diplomacy	2
Coming into the Cold: China’s interests in the Antarctic	2
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’	2
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	2
Antarctica in the gray zone	2
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	2
Wasatiyyah and Hamas's modulating positions on the two-state solution and Israel: finding the middle path	2
Australia’s signing of the Artemis Accords: a positive development or a controversial choice?	2
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	2
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	2
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	2
Still avoiding Armageddon: neglected antecedents and the future promise of Australian normative IR theory	2

Prestige, power, principles and pay-off: middle powers negotiating international conventional weapons treaties	2
Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?	2
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	2
Comparing organisational and alternative regional citizenships: the case of ‘Entrepreneurial regional citizenship’ in ASEAN	2
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	2
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	2
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	2
Australia’s indigenous diplomacy and its regional resonance in Oceania	2
Changing civil–military relations in Japan: 2009–2012	2
Introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs	2
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations	2
Antarctic Treaty System at 60: fit for the future?	2
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	2
China and the United States: the case for smart appeasement	2
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	2
Indigenous foreign policy: the challenges of survivalism before and after the era of Western dominance	2
The myth of Australia’s ‘strategic policy’	2
India and Pakistan at the Financial Action Task Force: finding the middle ground between two competing perspectives	2