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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?144
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes42
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races36
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework35
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics27
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands27
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination23
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures22
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime21
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction21
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers21
Correction19
Editorial19
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries19
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration19
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control19
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development19
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium18
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’18
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago17
The Global East in the Anthropocene as a Boundary Event17
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia17
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 202216
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances16
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively14
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices14
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island13
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean13
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine13
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation13
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space11
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean11
The United States, China, and Strategic Technologies: Domestic Coalitions, Foreign Policy, and Multilateral Cooperation in the Biden Era11
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand11
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU11
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific11
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line11
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration10
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK10
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies10
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space10
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia10
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”9
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking9
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–20229
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling9
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration9
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus9
Rethinking the Migrant Position9
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa8
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts8
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’8
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes8
‘A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’: The Oligopticon of Interpretation8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War8
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB8
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates8
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands8
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence7
Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar7
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–19147
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland7
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy7
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood7
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption7
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence:7
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements7
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies7
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa7
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective6
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants6
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus6
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific6
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts6
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design6
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence6
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?6
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries?6
From Neoliberal Openness to Sovereign Openness: Analysing Imaginaries of European Digital Policies5
Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization5
Changing Functions of a Border Festival: Insights from Friendship/Slavic Unity Festival at the Triple Border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus5
I Choose to Live : Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam5
The Constitution and Contestability of Borders5
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms5
Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names5
Elastic Borders: Fluctuating Policies of Securitization, Deterrence, and Expulsion in the United States5
Re-Configuring the Sahel: The Imaginary Turn of Geopolitics in a Kaleidoscopic Region5
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border5
On Inclusion, Exclusion, and Racial Differentiation: Foregrounding Racism across Borderscapes5
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects5
‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos4
Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market: The Geopolitics of Energy Market Regulation4
Passports, Prosperity and Problems: (Counter)geopolitical Narratives of Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment Scheme4
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women4
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route4
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature4
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination4
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East4
Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Reception and Settlement4
Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities4
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations4
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea4
Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia4
The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices: The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa4
Traversing Borders and Creating Networks at Sea: The Case of Fishers in the South China Sea4
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence4
Nontraditional Security Challenges and the Geopolitics of Transnational Security Cooperation in the Mekong Region4
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs4
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders4
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin3
Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance3
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid3
Correction3
Borders Ending Nowhere: The Geopolitical Imaginaries and Practices of Russia’s Spheres of Interest in Africa3
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling3
Narrating Geopolitics: Strategic Narratives of Georgia’s EU Candidacy3
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States3
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control3
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality3
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry3
Green Windows or Old Traps? Geopoliticization, Extractivism, and Policy Challenges in the Global South3
Guesthouses as Sites of Geopolitical Practice: Rethinking China–Nepal Relations Through Tourism3
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’3
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty3
Beyond Eurocentrism: Globalising and Decentring Research on Micro-Regional Cross-Border Cooperation3
Living with Isolation: The Local Border Resilience in the Kaliningrad Region3
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration3
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-193
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa3
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation3
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies3
Airpower and Migration Control3
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight3
Correction3
From a Buffer Zone to a Frontline Region? Unmapping Eastern Europe in a Multi-Order World3
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge2
Politicisation and Place: The Determinants of Labour and Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements2
Critical Geopolitics of Global Environmental Norms: Exploring Indonesia’s Response to Climate Mitigation Agenda2
Mind the Conceptual Gap: Making Sense of the Geopolitical Roles of De Facto States2
Refugee Return, Reintegration, and Sustainable Futurity: Politics, Pitfalls and Possibilities of Repatriation in Post/Conflict Situations2
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches2
Anatomy of a Fall: Understanding France’s Reluctant Retreat from Central Sahel2
Ultimate Concessions? Why States Agree to Independence Referendums After Long Wars2
Geopolitical Interstices in Planetary Urbanisation2
From the Core to the Periphery of EU Foreign Policy: Brexit as a Case of Internal Re-Bordering of the EU2
Grief Activism and Solidarity with Migrants Along the EU’s Eastern Migratory Route2
Environmental Justice and the (Re) Production of Sacrifice Zones: The Impact of Migration Policies and Practices in the Aegean2
Within ‘Our European Family’? The Role of the Local EU Delegation as an Intermediary in EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Relations2
Les Identitaires ’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System2
Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South2
‘When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity’: Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements2
Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time2
Conciliating Subaltern and Liminal Geopolitics: Reggio Emilia’s City Diplomacy and the Geographies of Lusophone Africa’s Decolonisation2
Zombies, Miracles, and Memory: Towards a Research Agenda on Mobility, Temporality, and Political Possibility2
Geopolitics and Disability Visibility in Humanitarian Action: Rethinking the Importance of Norms, Advocacy, and Research2
Intraregional Geopolitical Imaginaries in Europe: Hungary and Poland Vs. France and Germany2
‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route2
Rethinking the International Organization for Migration2
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal2
Law of the Sea and the Territorialisation of Maritime Spaces and Islands in the China Seas and Beyond2
Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities2
Transnational Bloggers in China: Geographical Imagination, Territorial Subjectivity and Digital Geopolitics2
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance2
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile2
Detention “Keeps the Families Together”: US Zero Tolerance Separations and the Slow Violence of Litigating Family Detention2
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador2
What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary2
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
International Organisations Are People, Too: IOM’s Role as Coordinator of the UN Migration Network and the Socialisation of International Organisations2
Awakening the Heartlands: A Study of Middle America and Central Europe as Geopolitical Imaginaries of the Radical Right2
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade2
European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control2
The Prosaic Stateness of Secularism: Diversity, Incoherence and Divergence in the Application of laïcité2
Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway2
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation: A Feminist Geography of Shitty Jobs2
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