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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	156
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands	48
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics	37
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races	37
Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme	30
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?	28
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework	24
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	23
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	22
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	22
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	21
Editorial	20
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	20
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	20
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	20
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures	20
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	19
Correction	19
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	19
The Global East in the Anthropocene as a Boundary Event	17
Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China	17
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	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
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia	16
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	16

European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	14
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	14
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	14
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	13
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	12
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	11
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean	11
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	11
The United States, China, and Strategic Technologies: Domestic Coalitions, Foreign Policy, and Multilateral Cooperation in the Biden Era	11
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	11
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	11
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	10
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line	10
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	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
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	10
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	10
Switzerland by Design: The Co-Shaping of Secure Messaging and National Identity Among Geopolitical Controversies	10
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus	10
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022	9
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	9
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	9
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	9
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	9
Accumulation by Securitisation in Tourism: Reflections from the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala	9
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’	8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”	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
‘A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’: The Oligopticon of Interpretation	8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	8
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts	8
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	8
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	8
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	8
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	7
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence:	7
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	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
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	7
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption	7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	7
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	7
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics	6

Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	6
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border	6
Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar	6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts	6
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	6
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries?	6
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective	6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit	6