OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geopolitics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women	54
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	44
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India	43
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	37
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence	33
Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time	29
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights: Jurisdiction and Border Control Under the European Convention on Human Rights	25
Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland	24
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border	24
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime	22
Containing the ‘Suspect’ Other: Perpetuating Colonial Spaces Through a Global Counterterrorism Regime in Nairobi	21
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness	19
The Belgrade ‘Campscape’: Refugee Spatialities, Mobilities and Migration Corridor Geographies	17
Islamophobia, Terrorism and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse	17
Trapped in (In)visibility: Contested Intercorporeality in Undocumented migrants’ Lives	17
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches	17
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes	16
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland	15
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 Syria	14
Veterans, Families and the Domestic Geopolitics of Remembering War	14
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB	14
Reorienting EU Border Externalization Studies: A Decolonial Intersectional Approach	13
Between ‘ Trochas ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador	13
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe	12

The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International System	12
Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders	11
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates	11
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	11
The Global Authoritarian Turn, Democratic Vulnerability, and Geo-digital Competition	11
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs	11
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: A Geopolitical Balance	11
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	11
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	10
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions	10
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies	10
Re-producing the Humanitarian Border	9
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	9
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	9
Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places	9
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	9
The geopolitics of the ‘Modern Breakthrough’: Cultural internationalisation and geopolitical decline in Scandinavia 1870–1914	9
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy	8
‘Stop the Pact‘! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration	8
Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace? South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America	8
The European Union and Co-Constitutive External Engagement: An Analysis of EU-Eastern Neighbourhood Relations in the Policing Sector	8
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control	8
Disrupting Self-Representations: Confession, ‘Coming-of-Age,’ and Temporality in Queer SWANA Refugee Memoirs	8
Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction	8
Pipelines and Power Lines: China, Infrastructure and the Geopolitical (Re)construction of Central Asia	8
Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control	8
Making Mars: The Emergence of a Resources-Territory Areopolitics	8
Institutionalising the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers	8
Musical Geopolitics: Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Scoring of Superman (1978–2006)	7
Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge	7
Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South	7
Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime	6
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	6
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality	6
Beyond National Boundaries: Unpacking Türkiye’s Role in the Sahel and Beyond Through Geopolitical Imagination	6
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade	6
The Spatial Dimension of the ‘New’ Chinese State Capitalism: Exploring RMB Transnationalization in Luxembourg and Its Implications for Monetary Autonomy	6
Les Identitaires ’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System	6
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature	6
Making All Deserts Bloom: The Racist Space/Time of UAE-Israel Collaboration	6
Nationality Beyond the Nation-State? The Search for Autonomy in Abdullah Öcalan and Otto Bauer	6
Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-19	6
A Rocket to Protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in Controversies About the European Rocket Program	6
The City as a Geopolitical Actor: Conceptualising Cities’ Political Agency in the Planetary Geographies of Urbanisation	6
Russia’s Patronage Over Post-Soviet De Facto States: Protecting Compatriots or Geopolitical Interest in Transnistria?	6
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation	5
En Route to Europe? The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali	5
Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies	5
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage	5
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid	5

Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood	5
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements	5
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border	5
Torture Survivors in Asylum – Ignoring the Obvious	5
Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry	5
Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy Vis-à-vis Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience	5
Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin	5
Powers of the Gun: On Violence, Frontier and Community	5
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction	5
Unravelling Local Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Border Region	5