Geopolitics

Papers
(The TQCC of Geopolitics is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness58
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 Regimes46
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes44
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands29
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration27
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction25
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control25
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia24
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime24
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination23
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers22
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond21
Correction20
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 202218
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances18
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance16
Editorial15
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development15
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System14
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries14
My Gold-Leafed Passport14
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin13
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago13
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 Space13
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively13
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island12
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific12
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU12
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation12
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia11
Rethinking the Migrant Position11
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine11
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling11
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space11
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking10
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space10
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK10
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand9
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies9
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–20229
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective9
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR9
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration9
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates8
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes8
Accidental Border: Kinma Islands and the Making of Taiwan8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa7
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 India6
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy6
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland6
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence6
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific6
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–19146
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa6
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB6
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland6
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region6
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts5
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design5
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?5
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence5
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces5
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics5
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route5
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border5
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee5
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management5
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics5
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism5
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus5
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants5
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation5
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