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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?	27
Disputed geometries of great power politics: US–China perspectives on minilateralism	24
New Zealand, Australia and grounds for strategic scepticism toward AUKUS	19
Navigating change in international relations: gendered games still	19
Australian foreign policy, the media and responses to mass atrocities	15
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)	14
Framing China in the Pacific Islands	13
Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples	13
Educating AI developers to prevent harmful path dependency in AI resort-to-force decision making	12
Unwanted participation? Defector public diplomacy in South Korea	12
Global IR and the middle power concept: exploring different paths to agency	12
The future of the U.S. alliance	10
The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar	10
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy: theoretical and empirical explorations	10
Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability	10
Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific	10
East Asia’s strategic positioning toward China: identifying and accounting for intra-regional variations	10
Climate change and Australia’s national security	9
Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?	9
Considering the importance of autonomous weapon system design factors to future military leaders	9
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century	8
Australia-France relations after AUKUS: Macron, Morrison and trust in International Relations	8
Deep south: Antarctica and the Australia–New Zealand strategic relationship	8
The United States is a messianic state: rhetorical roots in US foreign policy since 1991	8
Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation	7

Allan Gyngell's podcasting contribution to Australian foreign policy	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
Correction	6
Unpacking the framing of health in the United Nations Security Council	6
South Korea’s alignment shift under the competition between coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation, and role conception	6
Evolution of China’s Bilateral Swap Lines: exploring the case of East Asia	6
Making sense of China’s crisis resolution role in Ukraine	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?	5
European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific	5
Towards cross-regional alliance integration: exploring the modes and modalities of ‘Coalition-Building’ around minilaterals	5
Ukraine, Afghanistan and the failure of deterrence	5
China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism	5
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: re-instituting gender apartheid	5
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’	5
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: ambitious at three levels†	4
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras in Australia	4
Delegating war initiation to machines	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
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war	4
Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism	4
Passing of Allan Gyngell AO	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
Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy	4
Toward a historical IR?	4
Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda	4
Intermediary structure of paradiplomacy: examining sister-city links in Japan	4
Racialised foreign policy and the prospects for Indigenous diplomacy	4
The changing strategic significance of submarine cables: old technology, new concerns	3
A complex-systems view on military decision making	3
What would Allan think?	3
The strategic case for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar 2	3
A dysfunctional family: Australia’s relationship with Pacific Island states and climate change	3
Not redeemed from time: the deep time of world politics and the role of chronological horizons	3
Born of Fire and Ash Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000	3
Beyond geopolitical fetishism: a geopolitical economy research agenda	3
Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence	3
Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity	3
The Anglosphere and ‘Anglo-scepticism’ in the post-Brexit UK-Australia relationship	3
The Solomons-China 2022 security deal: extraterritoriality and the perils of militarisation in the Pacific Islands	3
Antarctica in the gray zone	3
The Turkey-China rapprochement in the context of the BRI: a geoeconomic perspective	3
The deterioration of Australia-China relations: what went wrong?	3