OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	29
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	26
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	20
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	19
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	17
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	16
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	13
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	13
Exploring the factors behind the persistence of the Philippine-U.S. alliance: a focus on the changing gist of the 1951 Philippine-U.S. Mutual Defence Treaty (MDT)	13
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	12
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	12
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	12
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	10
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	10
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	10
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	10
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	10
Climate change and Australia’s national security	9
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	9
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	9
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	9
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	8
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	8
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	8
The future of the U.S. alliance	8

Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	8
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	7
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	7
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	7
Correction	6
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	6
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	6
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	6
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	6
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	6
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	6
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	6
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	6
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	5
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	5
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	5
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	5
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	5
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	5
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	5
Toward a historical IR?	4
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	4
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	4
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	4
Delegating war initiation to machines	4
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	4
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	4
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	4
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	4
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	4
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	4
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	3
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	3
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
What would Allan think?	3
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	3
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	3
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	3
Antarctica in the gray zone	3
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	3
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	3
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	2
International law as a discipline in crisis	2

Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	2
Foreign interference and Australian electoral security in the digital era	2
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	2
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	2
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	2
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	2
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	2
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	2
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	2
Australian IR scholarship on the environment: the recent past and the possible future	2
Introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs	2
Role conceptions and diplomatic behaviours: comparing Japan and South Korea in the South China Sea	2
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	2
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	2
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	2
Yolŋu diplomacy	2
Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi	2
Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	2
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	2
The battle of the Coral Sea: Australia’s response to the Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific	2
The role of the UN Security Council in health emergencies: lessons from the Ebola response in Sierra Leone	2
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	2
Explaining China's strategy of implicit economic coercion. Best left unsaid?	2
From regional to global Islamic State of Khorasan : thematic analysis of Voice of Khorasan magazine	2
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	2
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	2
The AICHR as a participatory space: contesting the secretive face of power	2
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	2
Correction	2
Images of Russia in Western scholarship	2
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	2
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	2
Can we rely on the Security Council during health emergencies?	2
The United Nations Security Council and health emergencies: introduction	2
Assessing the maritime ‘rules-based order’ in Antarctica	2
China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	2
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	2
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’	1
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	1
The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?	1
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	1
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	1
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	1
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	1
2024 South Korean martial law crisis: lessons for the democratic resilience	1
How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks in the Indo-Pacific	1
The diplomatic power of small states: Mongolia’s mediation on the Korean peninsula	1
Bridging regions, forging new modes of cooperation: the US track record on cross-regional security cooperation	1
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations	1
Transmission interrupted: Australia’s international television broadcasting	1
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	1
Contradictions in Australia's Pacific Islands discourse	1
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	1
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	1
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	1
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	1
Taming Chinese power: decoding the dynamics of Australian foreign policies toward the rise of China	1
Going global: a future for Australian International Relations	1
Deter, detain, deport and demonise: should others follow the Australian crimmigration model?	1
Learning the right policy lessons from Beijing’s campaign of trade disruption against Australia	1
The modes and modalities of cross-regional security cooperation: innovations in alliance management and strategic coordination	1
From Ayungin to Escoda: lessons for Manila’s sea denial quest in the West Philippine Sea	1
Holding contradictions: toward the lawful carriage of Indigenous diplomacy	1
No future without history: the future of international law	1
AUKUS as ontological security – Australian foreign policy in an age of uncertainty	1
Misrecognition, ontological security and state foreign policy: the case of post-Soviet Russia	1
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	1
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	1
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	1
Learning from New Zealand	1
The origins of the ANZUS alliance	1
Minilateralism and global governance: effectiveness of hybrid models	1
Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?	1
Examining the Philippines’ China policy: great powers and domestic politics	1
An international relations discipline for tempestuous times	1
The state prunes the banyan tree: calibrated liberalisation in Singapore	1