OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geopolitics is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands	84
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	68
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	36
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness	31
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races	30
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?	30
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics	29
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	26
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework	25
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	24
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	23
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	22
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	20
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	20
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia	19
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	19
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	18
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures	18
Editorial	18
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	17
Correction	17
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia	16
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	15
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	15
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	15

Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	14
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022	14
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	13
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	13
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	13
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	13
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	12
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	12
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	11
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	11
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	11
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	10
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line	10
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022	10
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	10
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	10
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus	10
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	10
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	10
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	10
Rethinking the Migrant Position	10
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	10
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	9
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	9
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	9
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean	9
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts	8
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’	8
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	8
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	8
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures	8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”	8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	7
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption	7
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	7
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	7
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	7
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit	6
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics	6
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	6

Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	6
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective	6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	6
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	6
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	6
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics	6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts	6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	6
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India	6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	6