OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance is 4. 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
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	28
An emerging knowledge system for future water governance: sowing water for Lima	26
Politicizing the polycentric urban region: bridge connection negotiations in the Pearl River Delta, China	21
Territory, ecological transition and the changing governance of ports	20
Rural regionalism in the 21st century: a tale of no cities	19
Boundary-making with India: Chinese developmental identity and the uses of geography	18
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	18
Speaking for ‘our precious Union’: unionist claims in the time of Brexit, 2016–20	17
Relational and reputational resources in the governance of top-down asylum seekers’ reception in Italian rural areas	16
Towards smart regional growth: institutional complexities and the regional governance of Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt	15
Interrogating the popularity of direct democracy among European national publics	14
Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: the post-socialist experience with local brownfield management	14
Governance, politics and political economy – England’s questions after Brexit	14
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia	12
Policy and political implications of government responses to COVID-19 in Ethiopia	12
Social structures of urban governance: strategic spatial planning in Addis Ababa	11
Introduction: Transnational assemblages and the production of security knowledges. New perspectives on security governance in, and on, conflict and post-conflict contexts	11
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	11
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	10
Location-specific citizenship: state visions of spatial selectivity in the cities of Beijing and Suzhou	10
Liberal spaces in an illiberal regime: environmental NGOs, state sovereignty and the struggle for nature	10
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	10
In search for more ‘authentic’ EU attitudes: re-evaluating regionalist parties’ EU positioning from sub-state parliamentary debates	10
How local unions are rethinking their relationship with(in) the city: the case of a place-based mobilization in Bordeaux	10
The judicialization of territorial politics in Italy	9

Hostile terrain: on the spatial and affective conditions for revolution	9
Territory, Politics, Governance	9
Making Mars resonate: the role of analogue sites in territorializing China’s outer space imaginaries	9
What next? Leveraging a new global crisis to mitigate an older one: opportunities and challenges in Romania and Britain	8
Assemblage as heuristic: unveiling infrastructures of port city waterfronts	8
Mayoral leadership, immigrant sanctuary, and multilevel policy dynamics in San Francisco	8
Irreconcilable sovereignties? Brexit and Scottish self-government	8
The territorial politics of nation branding: marketing education in the UK and Scotland	8
Territorial governance and Smart Specialisation: empowering the sub-national level in EU regional policy	8
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	7
Capturing dissent: forensic photography of graffiti in the late German Democratic Republic	7
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	7
Governing and securing the territorial volumes of burial: transformations in the political economy and domestic geopolitics of death	7
Local government resilience in the face of Russian aggression: the case of Ukraine	7
Affective terrains of Assyrian heritage under Daesh	6
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	6
Rails through rangelands: redefining infrastructure frontiers and patronage in Kenya’s Maasai land	6
The settler-rights backlash: understanding liberal challenges to Indigenous self-determination	6
State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing	6
An extraversion affair: African states and the subnational locations of large-scale land acquisitions	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour	6
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation	6
Connecting place and multilevel governance for urban river restoration	5
Transnational counterterrorism assemblages: the case of preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali	5
Water infrastructure as a driver of regionalization in the Ruhr, Germany	5
The spatial hierarchies of a networked state: historical context and present-day imaginaries in Finland	5
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	5
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems	5
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	5
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East: the geopolitical underpinnings of Internet connectivity	5
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	5
Rescaling urban governance: an assessment of special-purpose vehicles in India	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
The RSA Awards 2024 Territory, Politics, Governance	5
Governance in post-conflict scenarios: assessing models of community-based governance in the departments of Caquetá and Cesar (Colombia)	5
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: the situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina	5
The development of public policies for the sustainable governance of Vicugna vicugna	5
Europeanization from the periphery: the case of ‘second-class’ food in Central and Eastern Europe	5
The local tackling of global issues: a governance paradox in federal states	5
Negotiating nationalism: regional politics in Italy during the health crisis	5
National standards or territorial autonomy? Public opinion and the politics of fiscal federalism for healthcare in Canada	4
‘With respect for the core business’: on regionalist parties and their minister portfolios in government	4
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	4
Territories, politics and governance of the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Conflicted translations: an analysis of the bus rapid transit policy adoption process in Cape Town	4
Just a strategic move? Exploring good reasons for self-determination referendums through the case of East Timor	4
How different multilevel and multi-actor arrangements impact policy implementation: evidence from EU regional policy	4
Peripheral activism: understanding the influence of California and Texas on the American Union	4
Dispossession through collision: low-Earth orbit and planetary sustainability	4

Securitise the volume: epistemic territorialisation and the geopolitics of China’s Arctic research	4
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	4
What is a territory? Comparative federalism and state formation in North America	4
Black-necked crane as border object: interspecies politics in Himalayan borderlands	4
Subcontracted capitalism and the polemical verification of rights: a Rancièrian interpretation of the politics of transnational private governance in Nike’s global produ	4
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	4
10th anniversary ofTerritory, Politics, Governance: achievements and prospects	4
Negotiating the global–urban: consumer flows in two Hong Kong retail sites	4
Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England	4
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	4
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	4
Friends with benefits: the emergence of the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) polycentric port region	4
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	4
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	4