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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity49
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism37
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View36
The Foreign Policy of Populists in Power: Contesting Liberalism in Poland and Hungary36
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management36
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity31
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance29
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty24
‘Vulnerable Refugees’ and ‘Voluntary Deportations’: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence23
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones22
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU22
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel21
The Autoimmunity of the EU’s Deadly B/ordering Regime; Overcoming its Paradoxical Paper, Iron and Camp Borders20
The Shifting Landscape of International Resettlement: Canada, the US and Syrian Refugees20
The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical Space Making through Migration Policy Instruments19
(Im)moral Borders in Practice17
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal17
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard16
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey16
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin16
Should (S)he Stay or Should (S)he Go? – Street-level Suspicion and the Construction of the ‘(Un)deserving Migrant’15
Intensifying Fissures: Geopolitics, Nationalism, Militarism, and the US Response to the Novel Coronavirus14
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy14
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office14
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance14
Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs14
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya13
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe13
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands12
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean12
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes12
Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border12
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations12
Geopolitics, (Re)territorialisation, and China’s Patriotic Tourism in the South China Sea12
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence12
Memory and Everyday Borderwork: Understanding Border Temporalities12
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions12
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond11
Migration Governance in the Mediterranean: The Siracusa Experience11
Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics11
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders10
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies10
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali10
Reconfiguring Desecuritization: Contesting Expert Knowledge in the Securitization of Migration10
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative10
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective9
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US9
Pornography at the Border: Ethnosexual Borderscapes, Gendered Violence, and Embodied control9
Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village9
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions9
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities8
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier8
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies8
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia8
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders8
Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives8
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime8
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management8
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading7
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience7
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime7
Lives in Waiting7
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction7
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route7
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar7
Base Built in the Middle of ‘Rice Fields’: A Politics of Ignorance in Okinawa7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe7
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy6
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria6
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa6
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy6
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates6
The Art Of Arms (Not) Being Governed: Means Of Violence And Shifting Territories In The Borderworlds of Myanmar5
Geopolitical Caesuras as Time-Space-Anchors of Ontological (In)security: The Case of the Fall of the Berlin Wall5
Migrant Politics in the Urban Global South: The Political Work of Nicaraguan Migrants to Acquire Urban Rights in Costa Rica5
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System5
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention5
Human Trafficking and Jurisdictional Exceptionalism in the Global Fishing Industry: A Case Study of Singapore5
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion5
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty5
Checkpoint Knowledge: Navigating the Tunnels and Al Walaja Checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories5
The Everyday Chinese Framing of Africa: A Perspective of Tourism-geopolitical Encounter5
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem5
Geopoliticizing Geographies of Care: Scales of Responsibility Towards Sea-borne Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean5
Neoliberal Capitalism and Ethno-Territoriality in Highland Northeast India: Resource-Extraction, Capitalist Desires and Ethnic Closure5
Engaging the Geopolitics of Asylum Seeking: The Care/control Function of Vulnerability Assessments in the Context of the EU–Turkey Agreement5
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border5
Assembling a Critical Toponymy of Diplomacy: The Case of Ankara, Turkey4
Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?4
Civilian at Sea: Understanding Fisheries’ Entanglement with Maritime Border Security4
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US–Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California4
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route4
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture?4
Serbia after Yugoslavia: Caught between Geopolitics and Liberal Promises4
Domesticating Geopolitics - reflections4
Critical Geopolitics of Outer Space4
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine4
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain4
Geopolitics at 25: An Editorial Journey through the Journal’s History4
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs4
The Figure of the Refugee in Superhero Cinema4
Liquid or Solid Warfare? Autocratic States, Non-State Armed Groups and the Socio-Spatial Dimension of Warfare in Yemen4
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration4
City-State Britain: A Counter-Narrative to ‘Brexit’4
Reconstituting the Cultural Geography in Zimbabwe: Place Renaming in Zimbabwe’s ‘New Dispensation’4
Postcolonial Geopolitics: Reading Contemporary Geopolitics in Maghrebi-French War Films4
Place, Displacement and Belonging: The Story of Abdi4
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands3
Mosques as Spaces of Everyday Geopolitical Tensions3
Defending Europe at the Trianon Border: Geopolitical Visions of Nationhood and the Remaking of Hungary’s Southern Border3
Bottom-up Geopolitics and Everyday Brexits at the Gibraltar-Spain Border3
Rethinking the Migrant Position3
The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order3
Towards a Schmittian Theory of Border Hardening: Nomos, Sovereignty, Political Unity and Barriers in the Middle East3
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China3
Teak & Lead: Making Borders, Resources, and Territory in Colonial Burma3
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border3
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India3
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects3
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling3
Talking to Migrants: Invisibility, Vulnerability, and Protection3
Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities3
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse3
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers3
Geopolitics on the ‘Other Side’: Counterpart’s Imaginary of a World System after the Virus3
The Geopolitics of China’s Overseas Port Investments: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Pakistan3
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?3
Towards Geopolitical Reading of ‘Periphery’ in State Spatial Strategies: Concepts and Controversies3
Chile as a Transpacific Bridge: Brokerage and Social Capital in the Pacific Basin3
Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments3
Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto: Tamil Nationalism and the Aftermath of War in Sri Lanka3
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts3
Linear Borders, Partition and Identity in Postcolonial South Asia3
A Rocket to Protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in Controversies About the European Rocket Program3
Musical Geopolitics: Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Scoring of Superman (1978–2006)2
Navigating Exclusion as Enemies of the State: The Case of Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia2
Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico2
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition2
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East2
The Cuerpo-Territorio of Displacement: A Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics of Re-Existencia2
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening up of Pandora’s Box: Anthropological Geopolitics of Renewable Energy2
The Geopolitics of Urban Green Belts: Between Exclusionary Zoning and the Militarisation of Urban Space2
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal2
Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?2
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics2
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage2
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime2
Colonial Aftermaths: Gender, Geopolitics and Hegemony in the Middle-East2
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali2
Of Mad Cows and Dead Pigs: Negotiating Food Safety and Everyday Sovereignty in Taiwan2
Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders2
Exclusion of Climate Migrants from the Global Compact on Refugees2
Reverse Discourse, Queering of Self-Determination, and Sexual Ruptures: Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdistan Workers Party, and the Problem of the Nation-State2
Through the Looking-Glass: The IOM Recasting the Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Narrative at the UN and in West Africa2
Enjoy Your New Region! The US Strategy of Shifting Turkey’s Caucus in the UN Security Council in 19532
The Politics of Temporality and the Ethos of Open Societies: Transfrontier Conservation Areas as Spatio-temporal Chokepoints2
Between the Minor and the Intimate: Encountering the Authoritarian (Extra)ordinary in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine2
Secrecy’s Performativity: Imaginaries, Encounters, Distributions2
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region2
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia2
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience2
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence2
The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International System2
Cosmopolitan Geopolitics2
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes2
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks2
Performing the Cold War through the ‘The Best Board Game on the Planet’: The Ludic Geopolitics ofTwilight Struggle2
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking2
Airpower and Migration Control2
Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making2
Project Kraken: Surveillance and Liminality ‘On the Edge’ of Land and Water2
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space2
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-192
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