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Papers

(The median citation count of Security Dialogue is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans	49
The strange resilience of the UK e-Borders programme: Technology hype, failure and lock-in in border control	21
Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’	18
(In)security in subordination: Policing and policework in postcolonial Pakistan	17
Audience agency in a curious instance of failed securitization: Public resistance to the Singapore government’s eugenics program	15
‘My body is my piece of land’: Indebted deportation among undocumented migrant sex workers from Thailand and Nigeria in Europe	15
Towards theorizing from the Arab non-periphery: Hyphenated identities and the boundless security field	14
Race, transnational militarism, and neocoloniality: The politics of the THAAD deployment in South Korea	13
Expecting the exceptional in the everyday: Policing global transportation hubs	11
Intelligence and radicalization in French prisons: Sociological analysis bottom-up	11
Transnationally entangled (in)securities: The UAE, Turkey, and the Saharan political economy of danger	11
Security as white privilege: Racializing whiteness in critical security studies	11
Police work and the politics of expendability in India	10
New materialism, whiteness and the politics of vitality: Rethinking activity/passivity in critical security studies	9
Making amends: Towards an antiracist critical security studies and international relations	9
The banalization of race in international security studies: From absolution to abolition	9
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia	9
On whiteness in critical security studies: The case of nuclear weapons	9
‘Yeah, this one will be a good one’, or Tacit knowledge, prophylaxis and the border: Exploring everyday health security decisionmaking	8
The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty	8
What makes violence martial? Adopt A Sniper and normative imaginaries of violence in the contemporary United States	8
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in democracies	8
Refusal as caretaking: Lyric poetry and the War on Terror	7
The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis	7
The technopolitics of border security R&D: Shaping the EU’s border in the Security Research Programme	7

‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security	7
The biopolitics of algorithmic governmentality: How the US military imagines war in the age of neurobiology and artificial intelligence	7
The intersectionality of health (in)security: Healthcare, disposable workers, and exposure within Brazil’s pandemic politics	7
Assessing threatening uncertainties: Counterterrorism and everyday practices of preemptive policing in Ghana	7
To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story	6
Transness as insecurity: Anti-trans movements and the security politics of reproduction	6
Registers of security: The concept of tryghed in Danish politics	6
Porous bunker: Private security contractors and the plasticity of Mogadishu’s international ‘green zone’	6
Peace needs constant reproduction: The temporality of the diplomatic system	6
Critical privilege studies: Making visible the reproduction of racism in the everyday and international relations	5
Organizing for future war and warfare: Complexity as ‘folk theory’ in NATO policy	5
The contingencies of whiteness: Gendered/racialized global dynamics of security narratives	5
The necropolitics of military amnesty: Peacebuilding and Othering in Northern Ireland	5
The neuropolitical imaginaries of cognitive warfare	5
A call for abolition: The disavowal and displacement of race in critical security studies	5
Racial militarism and civilizational anxiety at the imperial encounter: From metropole to the postcolonial state	5
The micro-dynamics of peace and conflict	5
Threats, deportability and aid: The politics of refugee rentier states and regional stability	5
Do the right thing: Vigilant citizenship and the surveillance of race in Miami	5
The mundane politics of war in Taiwan: Psychological preparedness, civil defense, and permanent war	4
Saving the souls of white folk: Humanitarianism as white supremacy	4
The technological obstructions of asylum: Asylum seekers as forced techno-users and governing through disorientation	4
Demystifying trauma in international relations theory: From incomprehensibility to the liberatory real	4
Engineered migration at the Greek–Turkish border: A spectacle of violence and humanitarian space	4
Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare	4
Diversity of thought as ‘mission critical’: Knowledge, politics and power in UK national security policymaking	4
Race, space, and ‘terror’: Notes from East Africa	4
Pharmacotic wargames: Military play as ritual sacrifice	4
Late modern war and the geos: The ecological ‘beforemaths’ of advanced military technologies	4
Singing truth to power: Transformative (gender) justice, musical spatialities and creative performance in periods of transition from violence	3
Policing the (migrant) crisis: Stuart Hall and the defence of whiteness	3
Settler militarism: Affective colonial pursuits and the militarized atmosphere of war commemoration	3
A self-fulfilling prophecy? Constructions of youth-as-troublemakers in UN DDR processes	3
Viral sites: The oligoptical power of emergency operations centres (EOCs)	3
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’	3
Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation	3
Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance	3
Transformative incrementalism: Palestinian women’s strategies of resistance and resilience amid gendered insecurity and neoliberal co-optation	3
A gendered security dispositif: Mobilizing gender in Mexico City	3
Memoirs of women-in-conflict: Ugandan ex-combatants and the production of knowledge on security and peacebuilding	3
Delivering life, delivering death: Reaper drones, hysteria and maternity	3
Vital encounters: Violence, multiple (in)securities and the reproduction of ordinary life in Colombia	2
Making pushbacks public: Secrecy, material witnesses and devices of dis/appearance	2
Decolonizing the Responsibility to Protect: On pervasive Eurocentrism, Southern agency and struggles over universals	2
Peace that antagonizes: Reading Colombia’s peace process as hegemonic crisis	2
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps and the public/private co-production of security	2
Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention	2
Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party	2
The undersecuritization of COVID-19 in Japan: Voluntary behavioral change as self-defense?	2