2026 Merje Kuus: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	26	1556	1426	54	52	70	2158

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Overview

Merje Kuus is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology, demography, geography, planning, and ecology.

They have explored a range of topics throughout their career, including:

Political Systems and Governance
European Union Policy and Governance
Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
Polar Research and Ecology
History, Culture, and Diplomacy
Peacebuilding and International Security

Their frequently published research venues include:

Political Geography
International Political Sociology
Progress in Human Geography
Geopolitics
Polar Record

Merje Kuus's recent papers comprise the following works:

"Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory" (2021), published in International Political Sociology
"Professions and their expertise: Charting the spaces of 'elite' occupations" (2020), published in Progress in Human Geography
"Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy" (2021), published in Geopolitics
"Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise" (2023), published in Polar Record
"Regulatory power and region-making in the Arctic: China and the European Union" (2020), published in European Urban and Regional Studies

Their collaborative work includes frequent coauthors such as:

Costas M. Constantinou
Jason Dittmer
Fiona McConnell
Sam Okoth Opondo
Vincent Pouliot

Best Publications

Europe's eastern expansion and the reinscription of otherness in East-Central Europe

Merje Kuus

391
Citations
Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy

Merje Kuus

140
Citations
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?

Unknown

139
Citations
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics

Klaus Dodds;Merje Kuus;Joanne P. Sharp

115
Citations
European Integration in Identity Narratives in Estonia: A Quest for Security

Merje Kuus

105
Citations
Symbolic power in diplomatic practice: Matters of style in Brussels

Merje Kuus

82
Citations
Foreign Policy and Ethnography: A Sceptical Intervention

Merje Kuus

78
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Theorizing the State Geographically: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality

Merje Kuus;John Agnew

71
Citations
Policy and Geopolitics: Bounding Europe in EUrope

Merje Kuus

59
Citations
Political geography I: Agency

Merje Kuus

34
Citations
Transnational bureaucracies: How do we know what they know?

Merje Kuus

34
Citations
Whose regional expertise? Political geographies of knowledge in the European Union

Merje Kuus

31
Citations
Sovereignty for security?: the discourse of sovereignty in Estonia

M. Kuus

30
Citations
Ubiquitous identities and elusive subjects: puzzles from Central Europe

Merje Kuus

30
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Cosmopolitan Militarism? Spaces of NATO Expansion

Merje Kuus

29
Citations
Švejkian Geopolitics: Subversive Obedience in Central Europe

Merje Kuus

28
Citations
Interventions in banal neoimperialism

Steven Flusty;Jason Dittmer;Emily Gilbert;Merje Kuus

26
Citations
Bureaucracy and place: expertise in the European Quarter

Merje Kuus

25
Citations
“Love, Peace and Nato”: Imperial Subject-Making in Central Europe

Merje Kuus

24
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For Slow Research

Merje Kuus

24
Citations
“To Understand the Place”: Geographical Knowledge and Diplomatic Practice

Merje Kuus

23
Citations
Thinking with diplomacy: within and beyond practice theory

Costas M Constantinou;Jason Dittmer;Merje Kuus;Fiona McConnell

19
Citations
“Those Goody-Goody Estonians”: Toward Rethinking Security in the European Union Candidate States

Merje Kuus

18
Citations
Interventions on Europe's political futures

Fiona McConnell;Merje Kuus;Alex Jeffrey;Heaven Crawley

17
Citations
Introduction: Geopolitics and its Critics

Klaus Dodds;Merje Kuus;Joanne Sharp

11
Citations
The Baltic transformed: complexity theory and European security

Merje Kuus

0
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Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Dittmer University College London

Klaus Dodds Middlesex University

Fiona McConnell University of Oxford

Adrian Smith University of Oxford

Iver B. Neumann Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Michele Acuto University of Bristol

Vincent Pouliot University of Montreal

Nick Vaughan-Williams University of Warwick

External Links

Personal website of Merje Kuus

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