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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	36
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	32
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	21
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)	17
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	17
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	17
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	16
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	15
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	14
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	14
Middle powers in the post-globalisation era: economic strategy and geopolitical repositioning in Germany and Australia	14
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	13
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	13
The future of the U.S. alliance	12
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	11
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
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	10
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	9
Climate change and Australia’s national security	9
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	9
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	9
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	9
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	8

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