OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	38
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	35
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	25
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	24
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	23
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	23
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	22
Location-specific citizenship: state visions of spatial selectivity in the cities of Beijing and Suzhou	21
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	19
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	18
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	16
The development of public policies for the sustainable governance of Vicugna vicugna	16
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	14
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	14
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	13
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	13
Correction	13
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	13
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	12
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	12
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	11
New imagined geographies into old geobodies: problems and prospects for China and Taiwan in the South China Sea	10
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10

The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	10
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	10
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	10
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	9
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	9
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	9
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	9
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’: the border spectacle of EU migration information campaigns in Niger	9
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	8
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	8
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	8
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	8
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	8
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	8
The role and place of ‘military territoriality’ in the Clausewitzian conception of war	8
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	7
Governing infrastructure, development and inequality around deindustrialized US cities	7
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	7
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	7
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	7
Editorial board 2024	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	7
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	6
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	6
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia	6
Territory, Politics, Governance	6
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	6
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	6
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	5
Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	5
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	5
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	5
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	5
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	5
‘It would be smart to discuss this on telegram’: China’s digital territorialization project and its spatial effects on contentious politics	5
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5

The politicization and framing of migration in West Africa: transition to democracy as a game changer?	5
The political economy of territorial integration referendums	5