Benjamin Zala

438 total citations
21 papers, 197 citations indexed

About

Benjamin Zala is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Zala has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 197 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Zala's work include International Relations and Foreign Policy (12 papers), Nuclear Issues and Defense (8 papers) and Global Peace and Security Dynamics (7 papers). Benjamin Zala is often cited by papers focused on International Relations and Foreign Policy (12 papers), Nuclear Issues and Defense (8 papers) and Global Peace and Security Dynamics (7 papers). Benjamin Zala collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Benjamin Zala's co-authors include Edward Newman, Shahar Hameiri, Paul Rogers, George Lawson, Robyn Eckersley, Nick Bisley and Paul Bracken and has published in prestigious journals such as Third World Quarterly, Review of International Studies and The Pacific Review.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Zala

20 papers receiving 181 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Zala Australia	8	142	89	30	24	12	21	197
Robert Cooper United States	2	185 1.3×	93 1.0×	22 0.7×	22 0.9×	6 0.5×	4	258
Subhash Shukla	2	100 0.7×	74 0.8×	19 0.6×	23 1.0×	10 0.8×	3	168
Van Jackson New Zealand	9	177 1.2×	116 1.3×	58 1.9×	29 1.2×	10 0.8×	31	233
Jonathan Fulton United Arab Emirates	10	104 0.7×	105 1.2×	52 1.7×	29 1.2×	6 0.5×	24	167
Wang Jisi China	8	141 1.0×	76 0.9×	69 2.3×	16 0.7×	12 1.0×	25	211
Alyson J. K. Bailes Iceland	7	191 1.3×	126 1.4×	30 1.0×	34 1.4×	38 3.2×	52	267
Michael Vatikiotis United States	7	99 0.7×	128 1.4×	30 1.0×	6 0.3×	9 0.8×	18	181
Brendon J. Cannon United Arab Emirates	10	148 1.0×	154 1.7×	70 2.3×	15 0.6×	8 0.7×	49	251
Nicholas Khoo New Zealand	7	143 1.0×	94 1.1×	69 2.3×	17 0.7×	9 0.8×	30	183
Rosita Dellios Australia	6	96 0.7×	69 0.8×	31 1.0×	22 0.9×	17 1.4×	33	159

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bracken, Paul, et al.. (2025). The Global Third Nuclear Age. Monash University Research Portal (Monash University).

Zala, Benjamin. (2024). Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability. Australian Journal Of International Affairs. 78(2). 154–163. 2 indexed citations

Zala, Benjamin. (2023). ‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age. Review of International Studies. 49(5). 795–812. 1 indexed citations

Bisley, Nick, et al.. (2022). For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century. Australian Journal Of International Affairs. 76(2). 138–160. 6 indexed citations

Zala, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Strategic non-nuclear weapons and the onset of a Third Nuclear Age. European Journal of International Security. 6(3). 257–277. 20 indexed citations

Zala, Benjamin. (2020). Interpreting great power rights in international society: Debating China’s right to a sphere of influence. Journal of International Political Theory. 16(2). 210–230. 8 indexed citations

Zala, Benjamin. (2019). Regionalism and Great Power Management in the Asia–Pacific: Complementary or Competing Forces?. Asian Studies Review. 44(1). 61–78. 4 indexed citations

Zala, Benjamin. (2019). How the next nuclear arms race will be different from the last one. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 75(1). 36–43. 8 indexed citations

Newman, Edward & Benjamin Zala. (2017). Rising powers and order contestation: disaggregating the normative from the representational. Third World Quarterly. 39(5). 871–888. 22 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2017). The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World. The RUSI Journal. 162(4). 68–69. 23 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2017). Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2017. Australian Journal of Politics & History. 63(4). 610–623. 3 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2016). The Australian2016 Defence White Paper, great-power rivalry and a ‘rules-based order’: an imagined correspondence between Carr, Bull and Bell. Australian Journal Of International Affairs. 70(5). 441–452. 2 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2016). Great power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society. Review of International Studies. 43(2). 367–388. 13 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2016). Polarity Analysis and Collective Perceptions of Power: The Need for a New Approach. Journal of Global Security Studies. 2(1). 2–17. 9 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin, et al.. (2015). Coordinating the arm swing with the pivot: nuclear deterrence, stability and US strategy in the Asia-Pacific. The Pacific Review. 28(3). 367–390. 3 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2015). Strategy in an Era of Rising Powers. The RUSI Journal. 160(6). 12–18. 3 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin, et al.. (2013). ADVANCED US CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. The Nonproliferation Review. 20(1). 107–122. 5 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin & Paul Rogers. (2011). The ‘Other’ Global Security Challenges. The RUSI Journal. 156(4). 26–33. 2 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2010). Review Article: Weighing up the balance: What role for the balance of power in the twenty-first century?. Cooperation and Conflict. 45(2). 245–252. 1 indexed citations

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Zala, Benjamin. (2010). Contemporary Security Studies. Medicine Conflict & Survival. 26(4). 314–315. 61 indexed citations

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