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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands183
Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme66
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?44
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes40
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics31
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races30
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework29
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction27
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime25
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers25
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures24
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration24
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control23
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries22
Editorial22
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination22
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’21
The Global East in the Anthropocene as a Boundary Event21
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium21
Correction21
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago19
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia18
Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China18
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 202218
Decoding the New Cold War16
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances14
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico14
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices13
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively13
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU12
Switzerland by Design: The Co-Shaping of Secure Messaging and National Identity Among Geopolitical Controversies12
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space12
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island12
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean12
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific11
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK11
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
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia11
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine11
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space11
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–202211
Accumulation by Securitisation in Tourism: Reflections from the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala10
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration10
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling10
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line10
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies10
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean10
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus10
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’9
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands9
‘A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’: The Oligopticon of Interpretation9
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates9
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes9
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa9
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War9
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration8
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption8
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland8
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”8
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence8
Museums, Geopolitics, and Relational Localisation: The Making of China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea in a Fishing Town8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures8
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB8
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance7
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
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence:7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood7
Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar7
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies7
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements7
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries?7
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design6
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific6
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence6
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts6
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation6
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit6
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective6
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions6
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants6
The Constitution and Contestability of Borders5
Re-Configuring the Sahel: The Imaginary Turn of Geopolitics in a Kaleidoscopic Region5
Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Reception and Settlement5
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination5
Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names5
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms5
Changing Functions of a Border Festival: Insights from Friendship/Slavic Unity Festival at the Triple Border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus5
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects5
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence5
Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia5
From Neoliberal Openness to Sovereign Openness: Analysing Imaginaries of European Digital Policies5
July 36 in Retrospect: From Autocratic Governance to the Collapse of a Repressive Regime in Bangladesh5
Elastic Borders: Fluctuating Policies of Securitization, Deterrence, and Expulsion in the United States5
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East5
I Choose to Live : Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam5
On Inclusion, Exclusion, and Racial Differentiation: Foregrounding Racism across Borderscapes5
Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization5
The Geopolitics of Mapping the Deep Seabed Frontier: Scientific Speculation and Colonial Extractivism4
‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos4
Nontraditional Security Challenges and the Geopolitics of Transnational Security Cooperation in the Mekong Region4
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route4
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid4
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa4
Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities4
Traversing Borders and Creating Networks at Sea: The Case of Fishers in the South China Sea4
The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices: The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa4
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations4
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs4
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control4
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature4
Passports, Prosperity and Problems: (Counter)geopolitical Narratives of Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment Scheme4
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders4
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women4
Correction4
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea4
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-194
Awkward Geopolitics: US President Trump’s Proposal to Acquire Greenland4
Anatomy of a Fall: Understanding France’s Reluctant Retreat from Central Sahel3
Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech WorldAcemoglu, D. & Johnson, S. (2023), Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity , Public 3
Narrating Geopolitics: Strategic Narratives of Georgia’s EU Candidacy3
Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance3
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry3
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States3
Living with Isolation: The Local Border Resilience in the Kaliningrad Region3
Detention “Keeps the Families Together”: US Zero Tolerance Separations and the Slow Violence of Litigating Family Detention3
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World3
From a Buffer Zone to a Frontline Region? Unmapping Eastern Europe in a Multi-Order World3
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’3
Green Windows or Old Traps? Geopoliticization, Extractivism, and Policy Challenges in the Global South3
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin3
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies3
Borders Ending Nowhere: The Geopolitical Imaginaries and Practices of Russia’s Spheres of Interest in Africa3
Beyond Eurocentrism: Globalising and Decentring Research on Micro-Regional Cross-Border Cooperation3
‘When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity’: Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements3
Guesthouses as Sites of Geopolitical Practice: Rethinking China–Nepal Relations Through Tourism3
Correction3
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration3
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation3
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality3
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling3
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight3
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities2
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal2
Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South2
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade2
Ultimate Concessions? Why States Agree to Independence Referendums After Long Wars2
Politicisation and Place: The Determinants of Labour and Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements2
Mind the Conceptual Gap: Making Sense of the Geopolitical Roles of De Facto States2
Climatising the Law of the Sea: Small Island Developing States and the ITLOS Advisory Opinion2
‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route2
The Politics of Infrastructural Ruination. (Re)bordering Practices in Time of ‘Emergency’ In Trieste, Italy2
The Politics of Connections in Greenland: A Typology of Imperial and Post-colonial Infrastructure Logics2
Law of the Sea and the Territorialisation of Maritime Spaces and Islands in the China Seas and Beyond2
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance2
Transnational Bloggers in China: Geographical Imagination, Territorial Subjectivity and Digital Geopolitics2
International Organisations Are People, Too: IOM’s Role as Coordinator of the UN Migration Network and the Socialisation of International Organisations2
Zombies, Miracles, and Memory: Towards a Research Agenda on Mobility, Temporality, and Political Possibility2
What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary2
Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time2
Refugee Return, Reintegration, and Sustainable Futurity: Politics, Pitfalls and Possibilities of Repatriation in Post/Conflict Situations2
Critical Geopolitics of Global Environmental Norms: Exploring Indonesia’s Response to Climate Mitigation Agenda2
Conciliating Subaltern and Liminal Geopolitics: Reggio Emilia’s City Diplomacy and the Geographies of Lusophone Africa’s Decolonisation2
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador2
Within ‘Our European Family’? The Role of the Local EU Delegation as an Intermediary in EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Relations2
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation: A Feminist Geography of Shitty Jobs2
Combining Rules and Capacity: Domestic Sources of China’s Dual Approach in Global AI Governance2
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge2
Les Identitaires ’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System2
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches2
Geopolitics and Disability Visibility in Humanitarian Action: Rethinking the Importance of Norms, Advocacy, and Research2
Awakening the Heartlands: A Study of Middle America and Central Europe as Geopolitical Imaginaries of the Radical Right2
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile2
Pandemisation of the Border: A Lens on Polish – German Rebordering Processes During and After COVID-192
Geopolitical Interstices in Planetary Urbanisation2
Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway2
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