OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of International Affairs 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	38
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)	33
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	21
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	18
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	17
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	17
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	17
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	16
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	16
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	16
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	14
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	14
The future of the U.S. alliance	13
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	13
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	12
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	11
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	10
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	10
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	10
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	10
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	10
Climate change and Australia’s national security	10
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	9
Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	9
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	9

AI and the decision to go to war: future risks and opportunities	8
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	8
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	8
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	7
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	7
Democracy, firms, and cyber punishment: what cyberspace challenge do democracies face from the private sector?	7
Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change	7
Indonesia’s G20 presidency: neoliberal policy and authoritarian tendencies	7
Correction	7
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	6
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	6
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	6
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	6
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	6
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	6
Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war	6
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	6
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	6
Russia’s stance on the Israel–Iran war and its declining influence in the Middle East	6
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	5
Delegating war initiation to machines	5
The Anglosphere and the European radical right	5
Global health governance through the UN Security Council: health security vs. human rights?	5
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	5
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	5
A humanitarian perspective: keeping people and their health, not national security, at the centre	5
Participation and direction by multilateral diplomacy	5
The anglosphere as non-contiguous region. Remarks on CANZUK	5
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	5
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	5
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	5
Toward a historical IR?	5
‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era	4
A complex-systems view on military decision making	4
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	4
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	4
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	4
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	4
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	4
What would Allan think?	4
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	4
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	4
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	4
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	4
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	4
Between self-reliance and pragmatic interests: the impact of North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine on its people	4