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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	33
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)	27
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	27
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	26
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	24
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	24
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	18
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	18
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	17
India and Taiwan’s evolving entente commerciale: trade and informal defense cooperation between Taiwan-India	17
Navigating the twin risks in alliance dilemma: South Korea's foreign policy during US-DPRK nuclear crises	16
Critical issues in contemporary China. Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, 3rd edition	16
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	15
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	15
The future of the U.S. alliance	14
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	14
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	14
Climate change and Australia’s national security	13
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	12
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	12
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	11
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	11
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	10
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	10
Respect and compliance: navigating U.S. – CoFA Patron – client relations	10

Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	10
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	10
Climate feminism for export only? Australia’s domestic and foreign gendered climate governance at the Janus Sieve	10
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	10
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	10
Correction	10
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	10
Trusted allies or friends with benefits? Instrumental ambivalence in Filipinos’ public appraisal of China	9
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	9
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	9
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	9
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	9
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	9
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	8
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	8
Reframing China and Japan’s strategic partnerships with ASEAN: converging interests or competing perceptions?	8
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	8
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	7
Delegating war initiation to machines	7
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	7
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	7
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	7
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	7
Toward a historical IR?	7
Abduction versus alliance: Japan’s foreign policy, now proactive?	6
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	6
Court Day, not Liberation Day: option-value statecraft and the volatility premium of U.S. transactionalism in Trump’s second term	6
Consolidating gender apartheid: five years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan	6
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	6
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	5
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	5
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	5
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	5
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	5
Where are the international allies of Afghan women?	5
A complex-systems view on military decision making	5
What would Allan think?	4
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	4
Yolŋu diplomacy	4
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	4
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	4
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	4
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	4
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	4
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	4
The U.S. alliance and public attitudes toward China: evidence from the Asia-Pacific region	4
Between self-reliance and pragmatic interests: the impact of North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine on its people	4
The economic choices of Southeast Asian countries in the context of industrial relocation	4
Strategically (in)secure and economically (in)vulnerable: Australia, New Zealand, and their relations with China	4
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	4

China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries	3
AUKUS ‘behind the scenes’: through the lens of militarised neoliberalism	3
Losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere: AUKUS and New Zealand’s regional engagement	3
Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities	3
Solomon Islands’ ‘Friends to all: enemy to none’ foreign policy: reconceptualising international friendship	3
Opening the black box of international human rights enforceability through the study of migrant rights	3
Philosophical vectors of oceanic diplomacy and development: the Samoan wisdom of restraint meets the Australian indigenous relationalist ethos	3
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific	3
What is Australia’s strategic metageography? Island, continent or archipelago?	3
Introduction to the special section: reflecting on Allan Gyngell’s contributions to Australian foreign affairs practice, scholarship, and education	3
The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form	3
Violence, vulnerability and protection on the move: interrogating the intersection of scholarship and practice on displacement	3
Voting cohesion in the UNGA: do regional organisations enhance member states’ unity beyond regional affinities?	3
Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war	3
Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia	3
Will Malaysia become an active middle power?	3
International law as a discipline in crisis	3
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	3
Navigating the transactional super-power: South Korea's adaptive agency and lessons for Indo-Pacific middle powers	3
Role conceptions and diplomatic behaviours: comparing Japan and South Korea in the South China Sea	3
Growing India–US ties and what it means for India–Russia ties	3
Out of sight, out of mind? The bipartisan Australian foreign policy on irregular migration	3
The Australia-New Zealand alliance: introduction to the special section	3
Australia and the US nuclear umbrella: from deterrence taker to deterrence maker	2
The voice of Allan Gyngell in Australian foreign policy	2
The limits of pressure: China’s bounded economic coercion in response to South Korea’s THAAD	2
When political apology becomes a source of soft power: a case of South Korea and its Vietnam War experience	2
Was sovereignty ever shared in the Solomon Islands?	2
Global Britain and the European north: the building of a ‘Northernsphere’ security community	2
Tell me what you don’t know: large language models and the pathologies of intelligence analysis	2
How to behave in Britain : co-presencing Anglo-American forces in the Second World War	2
Learning from New Zealand	2
Proxy responsibility: addressing responsibility gaps in human-machine decision making on the resort to force	2
The origins of the ANZUS alliance	2
Approaching First Nations diplomacy from the Australian continent	2
Crouching tiger: India, a revisionist power in the making?	2
How a no new coal mining treaty could align climate and coal mining interests ahead of COP31	2
US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism	2
Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremacy	2
The new political economy of Australia—Southeast Asia engagement	2
How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks in the Indo-Pacific	2
Australia as an ecocidal middle power	2
No future without history: the future of international law	2
China’s socialist market economy and systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order	2
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order	2
The Charteris Oration, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 29 November 2017	2
Different nightmares, shared dreams? Australia and New Zealand's intuitive alliance	2
Fragile alliances and costly signals: analyzing Russia-North Korea strategic ties	2
Algorithmic war and the dangers of in-visibility, anonymity, and fragmentation	2
From regional to global Islamic State of Khorasan : thematic analysis of Voice of Khorasan magazine	2
Remembering Allan Gyngell as a foreign policy educator	2
Rethinking land compensation in Papua New Guinea: promoting long-term economic participation—the case for the Motu Koita people of the nation’s capital	2