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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?	144
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	42
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races	36
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework	35
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics	27
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands	27
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	23
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths: The Technological Mediation of Automated Dialect Recognition in Asylum Procedures	22
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	21
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	21
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	21
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	19
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	19
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	19
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	19
Correction	19
Editorial	19
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	18
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	18
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	17
The Global East in the Anthropocene as a Boundary Event	17
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia	17
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	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
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	14

European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	14
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	13
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	13
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	13
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean	13
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
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	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	11
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	11
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean	11
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	10
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	10
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	10
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	10
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	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
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	9
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus	9
Rethinking the Migrant Position	9
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”	9
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	9
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	8
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	8
‘A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’: The Oligopticon of Interpretation	8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	8
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	8
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	8
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures	8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	8
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	8
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	8
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 Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	7
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	7
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	7
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption	7
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence:	7
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	7
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	7
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	7
Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar	7
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	7
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	7
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics	6

The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions	6
Borderwork as Artistic Practice: Creation, Belonging and the Irish Border in the Wake of Brexit	6
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts	6
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee	6
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design	6
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence	6
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?	6
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries?	6
Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective	6
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants	6
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	6