OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geopolitics is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework	64
Geopolitics as Architecture: Parallax Nation-‘Building’ in the Czech Lands	55
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	31
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness	29
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 Geopolitics	28
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	27
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	25
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	24
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	21
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia	20
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	20
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	18
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	18
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	17
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	16
The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries	16
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System	16
Editorial	16
Correction	16
Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East, 2011-2021: From a “Flash in the Pan” of Regional Cooperation to Liquid Alliances	15
The Affect of Memory: The Affective Community in the Matsu Borderland Archipelago	15
Governance of Fisheries in the International Watercourses of Spain and Portugal: The River Minho Condominium	15
Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio’	15
My Gold-Leafed Passport	15

Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space	15
Arms Race or Innovation Race? Geopolitical AI Development	14
Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia	14
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022	13
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific	13
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices	12
‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island	12
Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space	12
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively	12
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	12
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU	12
The Changing Boundaries of Trade Governance: The Cases of the EU and the UK	11
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	11
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation	11
Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling	10
A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022	10
Rethinking the Migrant Position	10
When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space	10
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	9
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies	9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
Producing and Embodying the Humanitarian Border: The Gendered Geopolitics of Responding to (and Preventing) Gender-Based Violence Among Burmese Displaced in Thailand	9
The Politics of Geopolitics: Italy’s Engagement in the Sahel and the Geopolitical Imaginary of the Wider Mediterranean	9
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus	9
Liminal Bodies and Spaces: Farianas’ Gendered Contestations in Northeast Colombia	9
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking	9
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts	8
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 Migration	8
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration	8
American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession During the Korean War	8
Geopolitics of Technological Futures: Warfare Technologies and Future Battlefields in German Security Debates	8
The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier: Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa	8
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	7
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	7
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	7
Pauline Geopolitics: Thinking Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes	7
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India	7
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	7
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands	7
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures	7
A Tale of Two Bandungs: Between Rebuke and Redemption	7
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	7
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences: A Visual and Sensory Ethnography of the Finnish–Russian Borderscapes in ‘Times of Stress’	7
Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan	6
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	6
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	6
Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	6

Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border	6
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region	6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	6
Global Reaches of Bordered Spaces	6
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	6