Geopolitics

Papers
(The median citation count of Geopolitics is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women54
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe44
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India43
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies37
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence33
Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time29
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights: Jurisdiction and Border Control Under the European Convention on Human Rights25
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border24
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland24
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime22
Containing the ‘Suspect’ Other: Perpetuating Colonial Spaces Through a Global Counterterrorism Regime in Nairobi21
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness19
Trapped in (In)visibility: Contested Intercorporeality in Undocumented migrants’ Lives17
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches17
The Belgrade ‘Campscape’: Refugee Spatialities, Mobilities and Migration Corridor Geographies17
Islamophobia, Terrorism and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse17
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes16
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland15
Veterans, Families and the Domestic Geopolitics of Remembering War14
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB14
Russia’s Hybrid Interference Campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: A Challenge against Trust in Liberal Democracies?14
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria14
Reorienting EU Border Externalization Studies: A Decolonial Intersectional Approach13
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador13
The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International System12
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe12
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa11
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition11
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs11
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance11
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management11
Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders11
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates11
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions10
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies10
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands10
Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places9
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route9
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–19149
Re-producing the Humanitarian Border9
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management9
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes9
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control8
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs8
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction8
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia8
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control8
Making Mars: The Emergence of a Resources-Territory Areopolitics8
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers8
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy8
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration8
Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace? South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America8
The European Union and Co-Constitutive External Engagement: An Analysis of EU-Eastern Neighbourhood Relations in the Policing Sector8
Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge7
Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South7
Musical Geopolitics: Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Scoring of Superman (1978–2006)7
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy6
Les Identitaires ’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System6
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature6
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration6
Nationality Beyond the Nation-State? The Search for Autonomy in Abdullah Öcalan and Otto Bauer6
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-196
A Rocket to Protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in Controversies About the European Rocket Program6
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation6
Russia’s Patronage Over Post-Soviet De Facto States: Protecting Compatriots or Geopolitical Interest in Transnistria?6
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime6
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond6
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality6
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination6
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade6
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements5
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border5
Torture Survivors in Asylum – Ignoring the Obvious5
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry5
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience5
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin5
Powers of the Gun: On Violence, Frontier and Community5
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction5
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region5
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation5
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali5
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies5
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage5
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid5
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood5
Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance4
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific4
Tourism Development on China’s Northwestern Border: Territorialisation, Reterritorialisation, and Geopolitics of the Great Altai Region in Inner Asia4
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience4
Supranational to the Grave? On the Geopolitics of Corpse Repatriation in the EU4
‘Beneficiary-Ownership’? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa4
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea4
Editorial4
Popular Geopolitics 3.0? Deconstructing the Boundaries of Popular Geopolitics4
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal4
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge4
Categorising anti-asylum Seeker Sentiment through a Regime of Securitisation4
Higher Education Under Siege: Attacking Spaces of Hope in Palestine4
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 20224
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces4
Towards Financial Autonomy: The Geopolitical Economy of EUR-Denominated Clearing Services Relocation3
Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics3
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries3
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse3
Analysing Climate Change Through a Human Security Lens – a Case Study of Fishermen in Crisis from Peninsular Malaysia3
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali3
Walling In, Walling Out: Differentiated Impacts of the US-Mexico Border Wall3
Maritime Security in the Caribbean: Causes and Impacts of the Regionalism of Small and Micro-States3
Polar Contradictions: China’s Dialectical Thinking About the Arctic3
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation: A Feminist Geography of Shitty Jobs3
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’3
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design3
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System3
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling3
The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border3
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy3
Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts3
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean3
Secrecy’s Performativity: Imaginaries, Encounters, Distributions2
Producing Territory, Resisting the State: Embodiment, Discourse, and Symbolism in Street Demonstrations in Iranian Kurdistan2
Imagination, Geopolitics, and the Anthropocene Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse , by Elena dell’Agnese, London and New York, Routledg2
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development2
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism2
Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space2
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Beyond Natural Borders and Social Bordering: The Political Agency of the Lower Rio Bravo/Grande2
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee2
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya2
Powered by Secrecy: Contesting Imaginaries of Migration Governance in Turkey2
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China2
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance2
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium2
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route2
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago2
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight2
Making ‘EUrope’ through Technologised Mobility Control: Schengen, R&D, and the Imagined Community of ‘EUrope’2
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and the Unmaking of an Island: The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge2
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders2
Rings in the Water: Felt Externalisation and its Rippling Effect in the Extended EU Borderlands2
Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities2
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty2
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions2
My Gold-Leafed Passport2
Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway2
Auratic Geographies: Buffers, Backyards, Entanglements2
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances2
Intimacy-Geopolitics, Remote Warfare and Domestic Violence: Disrupting Hierarchies of Violence1
Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities1
European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control1
The Trajectory Between Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, and Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Kalapani Border Dispute Between India and Nepal1
The Infrastructural Power of the Cayman Islands and the US State Power: A Financial Networks Centrality Approach1
Between the Minor and the Intimate: Encountering the Authoritarian (Extra)ordinary in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine1
The EU Energy Transition in a Geopoliticizing World1
Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making1
‘We’re an Organization that Does Stuff ’: The International Organization for Migration, Logistics and Expert Authority in Migration Governance1
Airpower and Migration Control1
Externalising Migration Controls through Development Programs in Egypt1
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific1
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty1
Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments1
Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech WorldAcemoglu, D. & Johnson, S. (2023), Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity , Public 1
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively1
Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border1
The Geopolitics in the Global Compacts: Sovereignty, Emerging Norms, and Hypocrisy in Global Migration Governance1
Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs: Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU1
“Do It Yourself!” Pedagogical Performances, Technical Expertise, and Crimmigration Control in the IOM’s Capacity-Building Practices in Nigeria1
Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions1
“Ready? Now Drop the Bomb”: A Feminist Reading of Nuclear Overlay Maps and the Cartographic Politics of Comparison1
The Politics of Temporality and the Ethos of Open Societies: Transfrontier Conservation Areas as Spatio-temporal Chokepoints1
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU1
Linguistic Vulnerability and Slow Bureaucratic Violence in Institutional Welfare Borderscapes1
Parties’ Platforms, Migration, and Security: Patterns and Determinants1
Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?1
Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership1
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island1
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination1
Peace and Conflict in Public Space: Gendered Murals Shaping Belfast1
Rethinking the International Organization for Migration1
Anatomy of a Fall: Understanding France’s Reluctant Retreat from Central Sahel1
The Role of Local Staff in the International Organization for Migration (IOM)‘S State-Building Work in Djibouti: A Postcolonial Perspective1
The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-20231
Entangled Vulnerabilities: Gendered and Racialised Bodies and Borders in EU External Border Security1
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders1
The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms1
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation1
“Everything Is Revealed in Maps”: The European Far Right and the Legacy of Classical Geopolitics during the Cold War1
Studying Borders from the Border: Reflections on the Concept of Borders as Meeting Points1
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