OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	29
Location-specific citizenship: state visions of spatial selectivity in the cities of Beijing and Suzhou	29
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	26
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	21
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	20
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	19
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	19
The development of public policies for the sustainable governance of Vicugna vicugna	18
Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: the post-socialist experience with local brownfield management	18
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	17
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	17
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
Social economy, sustainable entrepreneurship and regional policy drivers	12
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	12
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	12
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	11
Correction	11
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	11
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	11
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	10
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	10
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	10
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	10

From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	10
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	9
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’: the border spectacle of EU migration information campaigns in Niger	9
New imagined geographies into old geobodies: problems and prospects for China and Taiwan in the South China Sea	9
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	9
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	8
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	8
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	8
The role and place of ‘military territoriality’ in the Clausewitzian conception of war	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	8
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	7
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	7
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	7
The impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes: a multilevel international comparative study	7
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	7
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	6
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	6
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	6
Governing infrastructure, development and inequality around deindustrialized US cities	6
Editorial board 2024	6
Wages of politics or last-mile welfare? The case of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)	6
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	6
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	6
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	5
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	5
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	5
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
Territorializing sustainability: decoupling and the foundational economy in Wales	5
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	5
What next? Leveraging a new global crisis to mitigate an older one: opportunities and challenges in Romania and Britain	5
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	5
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	5
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia	5
Governance, politics and political economy – England’s questions after Brexit	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	5
State actors, human rights violations and informal livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	5
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	5