Geopolitics

Papers
(The median citation count of Geopolitics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework64
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands55
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes31
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness29
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?29
Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics28
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands27
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes25
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination24
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime21
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers20
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia20
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration18
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction18
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond17
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control16
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries16
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System16
Editorial16
Correction16
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space15
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances15
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago15
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium15
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’15
My Gold-Leafed Passport15
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development14
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia14
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific13
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 202213
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine12
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU12
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island12
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space12
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively12
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation11
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK11
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin11
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space10
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling10
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–202210
Rethinking the Migrant Position10
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia9
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking9
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR9
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective9
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand9
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean9
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus9
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa8
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts8
Tourism, Resource Nationalism, and the Making of South Korea’s “Whale City”8
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration8
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates8
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence7
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’7
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance7
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland7
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland7
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes7
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India7
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB7
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands7
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures7
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation6
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific6
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan6
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–19146
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies6
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border6
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region6
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics5
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms5
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants5
I Choose to Live : Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam5
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus5
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics5
From Neoliberal Openness to Sovereign Openness: Analysing Imaginaries of European Digital Policies5
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts5
On Inclusion, Exclusion, and Racial Differentiation: Foregrounding Racism across Borderscapes5
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee5
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border5
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design5
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions5
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence5
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?5
Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market: The Geopolitics of Energy Market Regulation4
Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names4
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations4
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition4
Passports, Prosperity and Problems: (Counter)geopolitical Narratives of Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment Scheme4
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women4
Playful Encounters: Games for Geopolitical Change4
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention4
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence4
Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia4
Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization4
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders4
‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos4
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe4
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East4
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination4
Governance Challenges of South Asia’s Energy Megaprojects4
Traversing Borders and Creating Networks at Sea: The Case of Fishers in the South China Sea4
The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices: The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa4
Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities4
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route4
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality3
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs3
Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance3
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid3
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation3
Correction3
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management3
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration3
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies3
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin3
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa3
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience3
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature3
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea3
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-193
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control3
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali3
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry3
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches2
Refugee Return, Reintegration, and Sustainable Futurity: Politics, Pitfalls and Possibilities of Repatriation in Post/Conflict Situations2
Geopolitical Interstices in Planetary Urbanisation2
Detention “Keeps the Families Together”: US Zero Tolerance Separations and the Slow Violence of Litigating Family Detention2
Anatomy of a Fall: Understanding France’s Reluctant Retreat from Central Sahel2
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership2
Beyond Natural Borders and Social Bordering: The Political Agency of the Lower Rio Bravo/Grande2
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’2
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight2
‘When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity’: Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements2
Politicisation and Place: The Determinants of Labour and Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements2
International Organisations Are People, Too: IOM’s Role as Coordinator of the UN Migration Network and the Socialisation of International Organisations2
Awakening the Heartlands: A Study of Middle America and Central Europe as Geopolitical Imaginaries of the Radical Right2
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile2
Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments2
Beyond Eurocentrism: Globalising and Decentring Research on Micro-Regional Cross-Border Cooperation2
Airpower and Migration Control2
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions2
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States2
Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?2
Ultimate Concessions? Why States Agree to Independence Referendums After Long Wars2
Intraregional Geopolitical Imaginaries in Europe: Hungary and Poland Vs. France and Germany2
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador2
Critical Geopolitics of Global Environmental Norms: Exploring Indonesia’s Response to Climate Mitigation Agenda2
‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route2
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty2
Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech WorldAcemoglu, D. & Johnson, S. (2023), Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity , Public 2
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders2
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling2
Correction2
Conciliating Subaltern and Liminal Geopolitics: Reggio Emilia’s City Diplomacy and the Geographies of Lusophone Africa’s Decolonisation2
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