OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness	58
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?	54
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	46
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	44
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	29
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	27
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	25
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	25
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	24
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia	24
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	23
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	22
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	21
Correction	20
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	18
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022	18
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance	16
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	15
Editorial	15
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System	14
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	14
My Gold-Leafed Passport	14
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	13
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	13
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	13

Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space	13
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	13
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	12
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	12
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	12
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	12
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	11
Rethinking the Migrant Position	11
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	11
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	11
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	11
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	10
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	10
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	10
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	9
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	9
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	9
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	9
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022	9
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures	8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”	8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	8
Accidental Border: Kinma Islands and the Making of Taiwan	8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	7
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’	7
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India	6
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border	6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	6
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	6
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	6
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	6
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	6
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	6
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region	6
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	6
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces	5
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics	5
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route	5

Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border	5
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	5
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	5
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics	5
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	5
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	5
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants	5
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	5
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts	5
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	5
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?	5
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence	5
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination	4
I Choose to Live : Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam	4
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions	4
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention	4
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East	4
Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization	4
Traversing Borders and Creating Networks at Sea: The Case of Fishers in the South China Sea	4
On Inclusion, Exclusion, and Racial Differentiation: Foregrounding Racism across Borderscapes	4
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations	4
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects	4
The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices: The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa	4
Playful Encounters: Games for Geopolitical Change	4
Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market: The Geopolitics of Energy Market Regulation	4
Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names	4
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms	4
Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia	4
‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos	4
Passports, Prosperity and Problems: (Counter)geopolitical Narratives of Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment Scheme	4
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition	3
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women	3
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	3
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry	3
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs	3
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea	3
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa	3
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature	3
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	3
Islamophobia, Terrorism and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse	3
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation	3
Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance	3
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies	3
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-19	3
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control	3
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence	3
Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities	3
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	3
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali	3
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration	3
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience	3
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid	3
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty	2
Conciliating Subaltern and Liminal Geopolitics: Reggio Emilia’s City Diplomacy and the Geographies of Lusophone Africa’s Decolonisation	2
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership	2
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile	2
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse	2
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions	2
Beyond Natural Borders and Social Bordering: The Political Agency of the Lower Rio Bravo/Grande	2
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States	2
Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?	2
Detention “Keeps the Families Together”: US Zero Tolerance Separations and the Slow Violence of Litigating Family Detention	2
‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route	2
Beyond Eurocentrism: Globalising and Decentring Research on Micro-Regional Cross-Border Cooperation	2
Airpower and Migration Control	2
Correction	2
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality	2
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin	2
Anatomy of a Fall: Understanding France’s Reluctant Retreat from Central Sahel	2
Intraregional Geopolitical Imaginaries in Europe: Hungary and Poland Vs. France and Germany	2
‘When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity’: Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements	2
Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech WorldAcemoglu, D. & Johnson, S. (2023), Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity , Public	2
Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments	2
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’	2
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight	2
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling	2
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders	2
International Organisations Are People, Too: IOM’s Role as Coordinator of the UN Migration Network and the Socialisation of International Organisations	2