Mark Beeson

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
176 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Mark Beeson is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Beeson has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 69 papers in Development and 49 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Beeson's work include International Development and Aid (69 papers), International Relations and Foreign Policy (46 papers) and Global trade and economics (25 papers). Mark Beeson is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (69 papers), International Relations and Foreign Policy (46 papers) and Global trade and economics (25 papers). Mark Beeson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Mark Beeson's co-authors include Richard Higgott, Diane Stone, Fujian Li, Alex J. Bellamy, Stephen Bell, Mark T. Berger, Jinghan Zeng, Fujian Li, Gregory W. Noble and Kanishka Jayasuriya and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, International Affairs and The Journal of Development Studies.

In The Last Decade

Mark Beeson

156 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The coming of environmental authoritarianism

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Beeson Australia	27	1.5k	961	817	411	298	176	2.5k
Atul Kohli United States	21	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	582 0.7×	502 1.2×	826 2.8×	48	3.2k
Sarah Babb United States	19	844 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	457 0.6×	186 0.5×	334 1.1×	34	2.4k
Emma Mawdsley United Kingdom	27	819 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	107 0.3×	239 0.8×	63	2.5k
Andrew Hurrell United Kingdom	23	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	910 1.1×	161 0.4×	227 0.8×	58	2.5k
Sam Hickey United Kingdom	24	480 0.3×	915 1.0×	585 0.7×	177 0.4×	301 1.0×	72	2.0k
Judith Goldstein United States	19	1.6k 1.1×	645 0.7×	547 0.7×	503 1.2×	249 0.8×	37	2.2k
Stuart Corbridge United Kingdom	30	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 2.0×	364 0.4×	123 0.3×	447 1.5×	92	3.5k
Terry Lynn Karl United States	15	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	469 0.6×	773 1.9×	274 0.9×	30	2.8k
James Petras United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	283 0.3×	257 0.6×	275 0.9×	305	2.9k
Enzo Faletto Chile	9	907 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	429 0.5×	404 1.0×	347 1.2×	36	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Beeson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Beeson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Beeson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Beeson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Beeson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mark Beeson. Mark Beeson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Beeson, Mark. (2025). China: Australia’s new great and powerful friend?. Australian Journal Of International Affairs. 79(5). 782–788.

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Beeson, Mark, et al.. (2022). Does Multilateralism still Matter? ASEAN and the Arctic Council in Comparative Perspective. Global Policy. 13(2). 208–218. 1 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark, et al.. (2022). Putting the BRI in Perspective: History, Hegemony and Geoeconomics. Chinese Political Science Review. 8(1). 45–62. 20 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark, et al.. (2021). Regionalism for Realists? The Evolution of the Indo-Pacific. Chinese Political Science Review. 6(2). 167–186. 10 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2021). Decentered? ASEAN's Struggle to Accommodate Great Power Competition. Global Studies Quarterly. 2(1). 12 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2021). Environmental Anarchy?. Bristol University Press eBooks.

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Beeson, Mark. (2020). The Regional Path to Peaceful Change: What the Asian and European Experiences Tell Us. Ethics & International Affairs. 34(4). 535–545. 1 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark & Philomena Murray. (2019). Testing Times for Regionalism: Coping with Great Power Rivalry in the Asia–Pacific. Asian Studies Review. 44(1). 1–9. 4 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2019). The great ASEAN Rorschach test. The Pacific Review. 33(3-4). 574–581. 9 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2019). Donald Trump and Post-Pivot Asia: The Implications of a “Transactional” Approach to Foreign Policy. Asian Studies Review. 44(1). 10–27. 12 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark, et al.. (2017). The Future of Asian Regionalism: Not What It Used to Be?. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 4(2). 195–206. 12 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2017). Coming to Terms with the Authoritarian Alternative: The Implications and Motivations of China's Environmental Policies. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 5(1). 34–46. 34 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark, et al.. (2015). Coming to terms with China: Managing complications in the Sino-Australian economic relationship. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 11(2). 21–37. 3 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2014). Can Asia's Alliances Still Keep the Peace?. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 9(3). 100–106. 1 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2014). Regionalism and globalization in East Asia: Politics, security and economic development. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 31 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2003). Trade and the national interest. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland).

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Beeson, Mark. (2003). Whatever Happened to Asia. 31. 3 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2003). Japan's Reluctant Reformers and the Legacy of the Developmental State. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 25. 25–43. 4 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (2002). Issues in Australian foreign policy: July to December 2001. Australian Journal of Politics & History. 4 indexed citations

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Beeson, Mark. (1997). Organised labour in an era of global transformation: Australia Reconstructed revisited. Journal of Australian political economy. 39. 55–71. 3 indexed citations

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