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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of cities in good governance for food security: lessons from Madrid’s urban food strategy	20
Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy	19
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	18
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’: the border spectacle of EU migration information campaigns in Niger	18
State actors, human rights violations and informal livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	18
Ad-hocratic immigration governance: how states secure their power over immigration through intentional ambiguity	17
Governing ‘places that don’t matter’: agonistic spatial planning practices in Finnish peripheral regions	17
The city as actor in UN frameworks: formalizing ‘urban agency’ in the international system?	17
The politicization and framing of migration in West Africa: transition to democracy as a game changer?	14
Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance: climate policy in the devolved territories of the UK	14
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	14
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	14
Real estate investment and urban density: exploring the polycentric urban region using a topological lens	14
Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England	13
The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources	13
Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK	13
Power, persuasion and preservation: exacting times in the World Heritage Committee	12
State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing	12
Polycentric urbanization as enclave urbanization: a research agenda with illustrations from the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR), China	12
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	12
Territorial governance and Smart Specialisation: empowering the sub-national level in EU regional policy	11
Sharing heritage? Politics and territoriality in UNESCO’s heritage lists	11
Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc	10
Mutations of the emerging new globalization in the post-COVID-19 era: beyond Rodrik’s trilemma	10
How different multilevel and multi-actor arrangements impact policy implementation: evidence from EU regional policy	10

Hong Kong – a model on the rocks?	9
Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US	9
Irreconcilable sovereignties? Brexit and Scottish self-government	9
Politics of adjustment: rural mayors and the accommodation of refugees	9
Inequality and voting in Italy’s regions	9
Contesting sovereignty and borders: Northern Ireland, devolution and the Union	9
Inequalities, territorial politics, nationalism	9
Brexit geographies of transnational education: uncertainty, ‘global Britain’ and European (re-)integration	9
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	9
Relational and reputational resources in the governance of top-down asylum seekers’ reception in Italian rural areas	9
Nativist with(out) a cause: a geographical analysis of the populist radical right in the 2017 and 2021 Czech parliamentary elections	8
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	8
Urbanizing Tibet: differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China	8
Megaprojects, mirages and miracles: territorializing the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and state restructuring in contemporary India	8
Neoliberal commensuration and new enclosures of the commons: mining and market–environmentalism governmentalities	8
Institutionalizing authoritarian urbanism and the centralization of urban decision-making	8
Burden, benefit, gift or duty? Dutch mayors’ framing of the multilevel governance of asylum in rural localities and cities in Zeeland	8
The politics of unilateral secession in the European Union: the case of Catalonia	8
Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean	8
Infrastructures and b/ordering: how Chinese projects are ordering China–Myanmar border spaces	8
The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece	8
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
The Belt and Road Initiative as a variegated agglomeration of multi-scalar state spatial strategies	7
Relational regulation and Chinese real estate investment in London: moving beyond the territorial trap	7
Becoming glocal bureaucrats: mayors, institutions and civil society in smaller cities in Brandenburg during the ‘migration crisis’, 2015–17	7
Between two unions: UK devolution, European integration and Brexit	7
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems	7
Wales and the United Kingdom: a territorial constitutional policy drive	7
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	7
Creating new states: the strategic use of referendums in secession movements	7
Depoliticization and (re)politicization tactics in refugee governance in Lebanon: comparing Western and Gulf donors’ interventions	6
Preserving order: narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp	6
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	6
Governance in post-conflict scenarios: assessing models of community-based governance in the departments of Caquetá and Cesar (Colombia)	6
Beyond displacement: territorialization in the port city of Buenaventura, Colombia	6
Agglomeration is in the eye of the beholder: the changing governance of polycentrism	6
The politics of public–private partnerships: state–capital relations and spatial fixes in Indonesia and the Philippines	6
Towards smart regional growth: institutional complexities and the regional governance of Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt	6
‘Tuscans are different’: the cognitive dimension of local asylum policymaking during the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’	6
Health policy and federalism in India	6
Governing polycentric urban regions	6
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs	6
Territorial cohesion: discussing the mismatch between conceptual definitions and the understanding of local and intra-regional public decision-makers	5
Merging, disaggregating and clustering local authorities: do structural reforms affect perceptions about local governance and democracy?	5
Negotiating nationalism: regional politics in Italy during the health crisis	5
Speaking for ‘our precious Union’: unionist claims in the time of Brexit, 2016–20	5
From below and from within: fishing communities under the COVID-19 pandemic and other globalizations in southern Manabí, Ecuador	5
Borders and guns: does violent repression impact border violence?	5
Centre–periphery contestation and the spatialization of Covid-19 discourse in Norway	5
Assemblage as heuristic: unveiling infrastructures of port city waterfronts	5

Politicizing the polycentric urban region: bridge connection negotiations in the Pearl River Delta, China	5
The co-constitution of regional politics and massive infrastructures in the Transaqua water project	5
Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India	5
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	5
Subnational governance strategies at the extractive frontier: collaboration and conflict in Peru	5