Geopolitics

Papers
(The median citation count of Geopolitics is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism47
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management44
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View40
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity38
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance34
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty33
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones28
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel26
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU24
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal22
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard20
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey20
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies19
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations19
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions19
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin19
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance18
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks17
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya17
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean16
Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs16
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office16
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes16
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy15
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond15
Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border15
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe15
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands14
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders14
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia14
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions13
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence13
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier13
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy12
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience12
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders12
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US12
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy11
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective11
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative11
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali11
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management11
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime10
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies10
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty9
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities9
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route9
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime9
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading8
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine8
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa8
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar8
Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making8
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration8
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture?8
The Geopolitics of China’s Overseas Port Investments: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Pakistan7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe7
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR7
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China7
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction7
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates7
The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order7
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific7
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria7
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs7
Assembling a Critical Toponymy of Diplomacy: The Case of Ankara, Turkey7
Engaging the Geopolitics of Asylum Seeking: The Care/control Function of Vulnerability Assessments in the Context of the EU–Turkey Agreement7
Serbia after Yugoslavia: Caught between Geopolitics and Liberal Promises6
European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control6
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route6
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands6
Liquid or Solid Warfare? Autocratic States, Non-State Armed Groups and the Socio-Spatial Dimension of Warfare in Yemen6
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies6
Defending Europe at the Trianon Border: Geopolitical Visions of Nationhood and the Remaking of Hungary’s Southern Border6
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion6
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System6
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border6
Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?5
Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto: Tamil Nationalism and the Aftermath of War in Sri Lanka5
A Rocket to Protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in Controversies About the European Rocket Program5
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?5
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem5
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling5
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking5
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain5
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes5
The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International System5
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention5
Geopolitical Caesuras as Time-Space-Anchors of Ontological (In)security: The Case of the Fall of the Berlin Wall5
The Art Of Arms (Not) Being Governed: Means Of Violence And Shifting Territories In The Borderworlds of Myanmar5
Reconstituting the Cultural Geography in Zimbabwe: Place Renaming in Zimbabwe’s ‘New Dispensation’5
Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments5
Place, Displacement and Belonging: The Story of Abdi5
Orbán Placed in Europe: Ukraine, Russia and the Radical-Right Populist Heartland5
Critical Geopolitics of Outer Space4
Rings in the Water: Felt Externalisation and its Rippling Effect in the Extended EU Borderlands4
City-State Britain: A Counter-Narrative to ‘Brexit’4
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts4
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali4
The Cuerpo-Territorio of Displacement: A Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics of Re-Existencia4
Performing the Cold War through the ‘The Best Board Game on the Planet’: The Ludic Geopolitics ofTwilight Struggle4
Civilian at Sea: Understanding Fisheries’ Entanglement with Maritime Border Security4
The EU Energy Transition in a Geopoliticizing World4
Postcolonial Geopolitics: Reading Contemporary Geopolitics in Maghrebi-French War Films4
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia4
Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border4
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects4
Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities4
The Politics of Temporality and the Ethos of Open Societies: Transfrontier Conservation Areas as Spatio-temporal Chokepoints4
Navigating Exclusion as Enemies of the State: The Case of Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia4
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India4
Secrecy’s Performativity: Imaginaries, Encounters, Distributions3
Geopolitics on the ‘Other Side’:Counterpart’s Imaginary of a World System after the Virus3
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers3
Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders3
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence3
Studying Borders from the Border: Reflections on the Concept of Borders as Meeting Points3
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US–Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California3
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics3
Re-producing the Humanitarian Border3
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance3
Through the Looking-Glass: The IOM Recasting the Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Narrative at the UN and in West Africa3
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal3
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space3
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and the Unmaking of an Island: The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge3
Musical Geopolitics: Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Scoring of Superman (1978–2006)3
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe3
Exclusion of Climate Migrants from the Global Compact on Refugees3
Rethinking the Migrant Position3
Between the Minor and the Intimate: Encountering the Authoritarian (Extra)ordinary in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine3
Enjoy Your New Region! The US Strategy of Shifting Turkey’s Caucus in the UN Security Council in 19532
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination2
Airpower and Migration Control2
A Buffer against Whom? Rethinking the Qing-Chosŏn Border Region2
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-192
Categorising anti-asylum Seeker Sentiment through a Regime of Securitisation2
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region2
Colonial Aftermaths: Gender, Geopolitics and Hegemony in the Middle-East2
Cosmopolitan Geopolitics2
Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market: The Geopolitics of Energy Market Regulation2
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions2
The United States as a ‘Pacific Nation’: Imaginary, Performance, and Spatialisation2
Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?2
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation2
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime2
Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge2
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage2
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition2
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East2
Of Mad Cows and Dead Pigs: Negotiating Food Safety and Everyday Sovereignty in Taiwan2
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies2
Temporality and Geopolitics: The Case of Global Catholicism2
The Prosaic Stateness of Secularism: Diversity, Incoherence and Divergence in the Application of laïcité2
Auratic Geographies: Buffers, Backyards, Entanglements2
Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace? South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America2
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin2
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience2
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control2
Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor2
Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico2
0.17173504829407