| Global norm diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan implement the responsibility to protect J Prantl, R Nakano International relations 25 (2), 204-223, 2011 | 169 | 2011 |
| The Sino–Japanese territorial dispute and threat perception in power transition R Nakano The Pacific Review 29 (2), 165-186, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
| Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics R Nakano, Y Zhu International Journal of Cultural Policy 26 (7), 869-881, 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
| A failure of global documentary heritage? UNESCO's ‘memory of the world’and heritage dissonance in East Asia R Nakano Contemporary Politics 24 (4), 481-496, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| Beyond the Western liberal order: Yanaihara Tadao and empire as society R Nakano Springer, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Heritage Soft Power in East Asia's Memory Contests: Promoting and Objecting to Dissonant Heritage in UNESCO. R Nakano Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 17 (1), 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Pre-History'of International Relations in Japan: Yanaihara Tadao's Dual Perspective of Empire R Nakano Millennium 35 (2), 301-319, 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| Japan’s demands for reforms of UNESCO’s Memory of the World: the search for mnemonical security R Nakano Cambridge Review of International Affairs 34 (4), 590-607, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Mobilizing Meiji Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's World Heritage Promotion R Nakano International Journal of Asian Studies 18 (1), 27-44, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Uncovering Shokumin: Yanaihara Tadao’s Concept of Global Civil Society R Nakano Social Science Japan Journal 9 (2), 187-202, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| The politics of norm glocalisation: Limits in applying r2p to protecting children J Prantl, R Nakano Global Responsibility to Protect 10 (1-2), 97-120, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| A geocultural power competition in UNESCO’s silk roads project: China’s initiatives and the responses from Japan and South Korea R Nakano Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 52 (2), 185-206, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
| Introduction: mobilizing nostalgia in Asia R Nakano International Journal of Asian Studies 18 (1), 1-5, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| The Wilsonian moment in Yanaihara Tadao's political thought R Nakano Japanese Journal of Political Science 19 (4), 600-611, 2018 | 3 | 2018 |
| Nostalgic Asianism in Postwar Japan R Nakano electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Japan and the liberal international order: rules-based, multilateral, inclusive and localized R Nakano International Affairs 99 (4), 1421-1438, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Unintended Consequences of UNESCO’s Documentary Heritage Program: Shaming without Naming R Nakano ASR: Chiang Mai University Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5, 99-113, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
| Governing Sustainability Transitions in Asia: Cases from Japan, Indonesia and Thailand E Zusman, SY Lee, R Nakano, D Sano, U Lualon, SB Nugroho ECO Transl. Environ. Sociol. Res 18, 115-150, 2014 | 2 | 2014 |
| Autonomy under Imperial Rule R Nakano Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society, 89-113, 2013 | 2 | 2013 |
| Geocultural power: China’s quest to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century: by Tim Winter, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2019, 304 pp., US $27.50 (paperback) R Nakano Asian Studies Review 44 (4), 730-732, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
