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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands	183
Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme	66
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 Regimes	40
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics	31
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races	30
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework	29
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	27
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	25
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	25
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures	24
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	24
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	23
Editorial	22
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	22
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	22
The Global East in the Anthropocene as a Boundary Event	21
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	21
Correction	21
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	21
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	19
Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China	18
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022	18
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia	18
Decoding the New Cold War	16

Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	14
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico	14
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	13
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	13
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	12
Switzerland by Design: The Co-Shaping of Secure Messaging and National Identity Among Geopolitical Controversies	12
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	12
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	12
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean	12
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	11
The United States, China, and Strategic Technologies: Domestic Coalitions, Foreign Policy, and Multilateral Cooperation in the Biden Era	11
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	11
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	11
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	11
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
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	11
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line	10
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	10
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean	10
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus	10
Accumulation by Securitisation in Tourism: Reflections from the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala	10
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	10
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	10
‘A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’: The Oligopticon of Interpretation	9
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	9
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	9
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	9
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	9
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 Islands	9
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	8
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption	8
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	8
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts	8
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 Violence	8
Museums, Geopolitics, and Relational Localisation: The Making of China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea in a Fishing Town	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
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	7
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence:	7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	7
Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar	7
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	7
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	7
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries?	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
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	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
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	6
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border	6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit	6
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective	6
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions	6
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants	6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	6
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	6
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence	6