OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of International Affairs is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	29
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	28
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	19
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	17
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)	16
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	15
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	13
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	13
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	12
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	12
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	11
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	11
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	11
The future of the U.S. alliance	10
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	9
Climate change and Australia’s national security	9
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	9
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	9
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	9
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	8
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	8
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	8
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	8
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	8

Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	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
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	7
AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	6
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	6
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	6
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	6
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	6
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	6
Correction	6
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	6
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	5
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	5
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	5
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	5
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	5
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	5
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	5
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	5
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	5
Delegating war initiation to machines	4
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	4
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	4
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	4
Toward a historical IR?	4
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	4
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	4
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	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
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	4
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific: combined military exercises and the functional modalities of cross-regional defence cooperation	3
Elevating humanism in high-stakes automation: experts-in-the-loop and resort-to-force decision making	3
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	3
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	3
‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality	3
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	3
Decoupling from China: how U.S. Asian allies responded to the Huawei ban	3
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	3
What would Allan think?	3
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	3
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	3
Yolŋu diplomacy	3
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia: key issues, actors, and discourses	3

The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Antarctica in the gray zone	3