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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness	64
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?	55
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	53
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	51
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	30
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	28
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	26
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia	25
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	25
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	24
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	23
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	20
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	19
Correction	18
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System	16
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022	16
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space	15
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	15
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	15
My Gold-Leafed Passport	15
Editorial	15
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	15
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	14
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	14
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	14

Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	14
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	13
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	13
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	13
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	13
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	12
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	12
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	12
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	11
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022	11
Rethinking the Migrant Position	11
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	11
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	11
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	10
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	10
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	10
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	10
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	9
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	9
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	9
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	9
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	9
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”	9
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	8
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures	8
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	8
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’	8
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	8
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India	7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	7
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	7
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	7
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	7
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	7
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	7
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	7
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region	7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	7
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces	6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	6
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	6
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route	6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border	6

Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics	6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	6
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	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
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	6