Third World Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Third World Quarterly is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers106
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos41
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)34
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict33
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa32
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina29
Gender and urban poverty in India27
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean24
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia23
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War23
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey22
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination22
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)20
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South19
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War19
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq17
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland17
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries16
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria16
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria16
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations15
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees15
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model15
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town15
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery14
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity14
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda14
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach14
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil13
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square13
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia13
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges13
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices13
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation12
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes12
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy12
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters12
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis12
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry11
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery11
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective11
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict11
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study11
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?11
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency11
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators11
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?11
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi10
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus10
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians10
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya10
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes10
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study10
Ecology, security and international action: beyond sanctions on North Korea9
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system9
Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates9
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism9
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis9
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice9
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine9
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’9
The everyday lives of drugs9
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena9
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library9
Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs9
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward9
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey8
Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections8
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing8
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines8
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana8
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge8
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans8
Norm-busting: rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies8
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo8
Dependent development in the twenty-first century8
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines8
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry8
The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq8
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey8
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar7
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects7
Behind the scenes of science in action: a ‘replication in context’ of a randomised control trial in Morocco7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?7
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh7
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?7
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma7
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law7
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul7
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan7
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?7
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations7
Sub-Saharan Africa’s desire forliberaldemocracy: civil society to the rescue?7
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala7
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism7
Correction6
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar6
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia6
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival6
Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia6
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab6
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey6
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’6
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations6
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?6
The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism6
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan6
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy6
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia6
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka6
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil5
Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia5
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict5
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia5
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1965
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’5
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen5
Correction5
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation5
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction5
Pandemics and the punitive regulation of the weak: experiences of COVID-19 survivors from urban poor communities in the Philippines5
The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement5
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image5
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America5
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence5
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation5
Statement of Removal5
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan5
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza5
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging5
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation5
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia5
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe5
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America5
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine5
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil5
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia5
A new Chinese modernity? The discourse of Eco-civilisation applied to the belt and road initiative5
The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion?4
The continuity of Othering in feminist methodology: activist-scholar and the insider/outsider dynamics4
Overlooked forms of non-democracy? Insights from hybrid regimes4
Degrees of peace: universities and embodied experiences of conflict in post-war Sri Lanka4
Forging alliances: political competition and industrial policy in democratic Brazil4
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance4
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia4
Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies4
‘The tears don’t give you funding’: data neocolonialism in development in the Global South4
Weaving an alternative partnership: a collaborative autoethnography on ‘failing’ to research epistemic freedom4
Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq4
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals4
Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector4
Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects4
Syrian refugees in Turkey: exploring the role of I/NGOs in refugee crisis4
Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the ‘Green economy’4
Challenges to the relational integration of urban refugee children into the national education system of Mozambique4
Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi4
Walking the talk: autoethnographic reflections on co-creating regenerative education within international development studies4
Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India4
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico4
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards4
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: the solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon’s multi-dimensional crisis since 20204
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union4
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes4
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa4
‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism4
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work4
Feminicides in Peru and Colombia: the role of legal and illegal capitalist relations4
From misogyny to security: women and the state in Iran4
Correction4
Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal4
Developmentalism at the periphery: addressing global financial asymmetries4
Fixing China’s humanitarian aid architecture: what are the lessons from the European Union and the United States?4
The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a tale of two discourses4
More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi4
Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid4
Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans4
Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday4
Neo-Ottomanism, Islam and migrants: the AKP’s battle in North Cyprus3
Land appropriation, customary tenure and rural livelihoods: gold mining in Ghana3
Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P3
Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate3
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group3
Third World feminism, transnationalism, and international solidarity: the Indian Women’s Charter of Rights and Duties (1945) and the Federation of South African Women’s Charter (1954)3
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South3
Exploring dignity in the context of displacement – evidence from Rohingyas in Bangladesh and IDPs in Afghanistan3
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations3
The Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme and the EU’s normative dilemma: the case of Myanmar’s garment sector3
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order3
The struggle for water in rural Paraguay: a ‘perverse confluence’ analysis of subversive participation3
The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh3
Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America3
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation3
Maritime strategy in Africa: strategic flaws exposing Africa to vulnerabilities from food insecurity to external domination3
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world3
Resisting population control: global women’s health activism and contraceptive controversies, 1980s–1990s3
The side doors of immigration: multi-tier migration regimes in Japan and South Korea3
Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia3
Joining a migrant caravan: herd behaviour and structural factors3
‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan3
Refugee flows, foreign policy, and safe haven nexus in Turkey3
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar3
‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration3
A case for agonistic peacebuilding in Colombia3
Unpacking the impact of mega-regional agreements: the EU–Mercosur case3
Otherness without boundaries: an autoethnographic perspective from an aboriginal South African survivor of local xenophobia3
Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger3
The Ethiopia–Eritrea rapprochement: highly personalised and less-institutionalised initiative3
Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia3
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel3
Between cooperation and conflict: tracing the variance in relations of traditional governance institutions and the state in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region3
Another decolonial approach is possible: international studies in an antiblack world3
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey3
The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan3
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation?3
Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-193
Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority3
Deeply divided along aid lines? Chinese loans, Cameroon and Anglophone marginalisation3
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information3
Towards a more inclusive diaspora policy orientation in Africa3
Towards a non-hegemonic world order – emancipation and the political agency of the Global South in a changing world order3
BRICS member states as norm entrepreneurs: worldviews and bids for power in global health and world energy governance3
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a ‘smart economics’ discourse empower?3
It will take a global village to find cures for global pandemics: the Ubuntu perspective3
‘Allow her to flourish and grow’: commodifying gendered handicraft labour in conscious capitalist brand imagery on Instagram2
Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy2
Rethinking recipient agency: what can we learn from Haitian accounts?2
After authoritarian technocracy: the space for industrial policy-making in democratic developing countries2
The Alevis and Roma/Gypsy in Turkey: republican freedom revisited2
Contested food, conflicting policies: health and development in tribal communities in India2
Blockchain as a tool to facilitate property rights protection in the Global South: lessons from India’s Andhra Pradesh state2
Hunger as a weapon of war: Biafra, social media and the politics of famine remembrance2
Buy clandestine misoprostol, get feminist advice for free: powerful narratives in women’s digital counterpublics on reproductive rights in South America2
Qatar’s approach across the Triple Nexus in conflict-affected contexts: the case of Darfur2
Who’s responsible for intellectual displacement? Objective representations of exiled professionals in Canada2
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