Geopolitics

Papers
(The median citation count of Geopolitics is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women47
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative44
Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time40
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights: Jurisdiction and Border Control Under the European Convention on Human Rights27
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland26
Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders22
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border22
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition20
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime20
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates19
Islamophobia, Terrorism and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse19
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches18
Trapped in (In)visibility: Contested Intercorporeality in Undocumented migrants’ Lives17
Containing the ‘Suspect’ Other: Perpetuating Colonial Spaces Through a Global Counterterrorism Regime in Nairobi16
The Belgrade ‘Campscape’: Refugee Spatialities, Mobilities and Migration Corridor Geographies16
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness16
Veterans, Families and the Domestic Geopolitics of Remembering War15
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?15
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador14
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria14
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route13
Reorienting EU Border Externalization Studies: A Decolonial Intersectional Approach13
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa12
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management12
The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International System12
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe12
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions11
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office11
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance11
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs11
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB11
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes10
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes10
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe9
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands9
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies9
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality8
Nationality Beyond the Nation-State? The Search for Autonomy in Abdullah Öcalan and Otto Bauer8
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control8
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation8
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies8
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime8
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood8
Russia’s Patronage Over Post-Soviet De Facto States: Protecting Compatriots or Geopolitical Interest in Transnistria?8
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy8
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India8
Geopolitics on the ‘Other Side’:Counterpart’s Imaginary of a World System after the Virus8
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region7
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–19147
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management7
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction7
A Rocket to Protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in Controversies About the European Rocket Program7
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration7
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control7
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage7
Higher Education Under Siege: Attacking Spaces of Hope in Palestine7
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid7
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers6
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia6
Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South6
Musical Geopolitics: Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Scoring of Superman (1978–2006)6
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy6
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge6
Powers of the Gun: On Violence, Frontier and Community6
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience6
Navigating Exclusion as Enemies of the State: The Case of Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia6
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea6
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali6
Categorising anti-asylum Seeker Sentiment through a Regime of Securitisation5
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction5
Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace? South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America5
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements5
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-195
Les Identitaires ’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System5
Making Mars: The Emergence of a Resources-Territory Areopolitics5
Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge5
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond5
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa5
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin5
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies5
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry4
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade4
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling4
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel4
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific4
Re-producing the Humanitarian Border4
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation4
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China4
Torture Survivors in Asylum – Ignoring the Obvious4
Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places4
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration4
Postcolonial Geopolitics: Reading Contemporary Geopolitics in Maghrebi-French War Films4
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border4
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces4
The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border3
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance3
Walling In, Walling Out: Differentiated Impacts of the US-Mexico Border Wall3
Analysing Climate Change Through a Human Security Lens – a Case Study of Fishermen in Crisis from Peninsular Malaysia3
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation: A Feminist Geography of Shitty Jobs3
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States3
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience3
Supranational to the Grave? On the Geopolitics of Corpse Repatriation in the EU3
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’3
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design3
Auratic Geographies: Buffers, Backyards, Entanglements3
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts3
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and the Unmaking of an Island: The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge3
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics3
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism3
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy3
Secrecy’s Performativity: Imaginaries, Encounters, Distributions3
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal3
European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control2
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse2
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space2
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System2
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries2
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali2
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 20222
Polar Contradictions: China’s Dialectical Thinking About the Arctic2
My Gold-Leafed Passport2
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development2
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty2
Beyond Natural Borders and Social Bordering: The Political Agency of the Lower Rio Bravo/Grande2
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions2
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee2
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics2
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances2
Editorial2
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’2
Correction2
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight2
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago2
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route2
Correction2
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean2
Towards Financial Autonomy: The Geopolitical Economy of EUR-Denominated Clearing Services Relocation2
Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway2
Engaging the Geopolitics of Asylum Seeking: The Care/control Function of Vulnerability Assessments in the Context of the EU–Turkey Agreement2
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU1
“Everything Is Revealed in Maps”: The European Far Right and the Legacy of Classical Geopolitics during the Cold War1
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty1
Rings in the Water: Felt Externalisation and its Rippling Effect in the Extended EU Borderlands1
Civilian at Sea: Understanding Fisheries’ Entanglement with Maritime Border Security1
Theoretical Premises of Support of and Opposition to NATO Enlargement1
Powered by Secrecy: Contesting Imaginaries of Migration Governance in Turkey1
The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-20231
The Infrastructural Power of the Cayman Islands and the US State Power: A Financial Networks Centrality Approach1
The Prosaic Stateness of Secularism: Diversity, Incoherence and Divergence in the Application of laïcité1
“Do It Yourself!” Pedagogical Performances, Technical Expertise, and Crimmigration Control in the IOM’s Capacity-Building Practices in Nigeria1
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain1
Airpower and Migration Control1
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?1
‘We’re an Organization that Does Stuff ’: The International Organization for Migration, Logistics and Expert Authority in Migration Governance1
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space1
Peace and Conflict in Public Space: Gendered Murals Shaping Belfast1
The Geopolitics in the Global Compacts: Sovereignty, Emerging Norms, and Hypocrisy in Global Migration Governance1
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine1
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal1
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border1
The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order1
Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?1
Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech WorldAcemoglu, D. & Johnson, S. (2023), Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity , Public 1
The EU Energy Transition in a Geopoliticizing World1
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders1
The ‘Cultural Life’ of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)1
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey1
Producing Territory, Resisting the State: Embodiment, Discourse, and Symbolism in Street Demonstrations in Iranian Kurdistan1
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination1
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions1
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively1
Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making1
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US–Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California1
Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities1
Setting the Standard? Revisiting the Unfolding Discourse in American and British Online News on the Snowden Revelations1
Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs: Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU1
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya1
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership1
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms1
Imagination, Geopolitics, and the Anthropocene Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse , by Elena dell’Agnese, London and New York, Routledg1
Studying Borders from the Border: Reflections on the Concept of Borders as Meeting Points1
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