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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy92
The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh38
Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy31
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order24
Informality and survival in times of crises: the role of the Quadripartite security committee in wartime Beirut22
Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger22
Gender and urban poverty in India21
‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism21
Sub-Saharan Africa’s desire forliberaldemocracy: civil society to the rescue?20
The coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa: experiences from Nigeria18
Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations17
Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod17
The gendered politics of Iran-U.S. relations: sanctions, the JCPOA and women’s security16
Migration speculation: microfinance and migration in the Global South16
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’16
The continuity of Othering in feminist methodology: activist-scholar and the insider/outsider dynamics16
Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday16
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation15
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan15
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector15
Politicians: the sinews of counterinsurgent governance in Colombia14
Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis14
Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism13
Student protests at Boğaziçi University against Turkey’s authoritarian regime13
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa13
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean12
Strengths-based Gram Sabhas? Challenges and radical possibilities when ‘measuring’ poverty in India12
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars: reconceptualising the consequences of external support11
Why veterans lose: the decline of retired military officers in Myanmar’s post-junta elections11
China’s ‘subtle ingratiation’ in the Global South: evidence from Zimbabwe11
BRICS member states as norm entrepreneurs: worldviews and bids for power in global health and world energy governance11
Contested racial capitals of English teachers in China: reassessing Whiteness by use-value11
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers10
Otherness without boundaries: an autoethnographic perspective from an aboriginal South African survivor of local xenophobia10
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination10
Deleuze & Guattari on protest weakness in Iraq9
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War9
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey9
9/11 and branding the Gulf States’ foreign aid9
‘Barbarising’ China in American trade war discourse: the assault on Huawei9
Suspending the antagonism: situated agonistic peace in a border bazaar9
Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India9
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict9
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos9
Registered NGOs and advocacy for women in Iran9
Resource allocation in power-sharing arrangements – evidence from Lebanon9
Recentring the coloniality of global policing9
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)8
Making sense of Lebanon’s approach to the (non-)securitisation of Syrian refugees: a political economic perspective8
The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria8
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South8
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)8
Autocracies and the temptation of sentimentality: repertoires of the past and contemporary meaning-making in the Gulf monarchies8
Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America8
How instability creates stability: the survival of democracy in Vanuatu8
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information8
Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy8
Floating people, changing climate: a migrant-sensitive approach to climate adaptation and mobilities in the Bengal Delta8
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism8
Who’s responsible for intellectual displacement? Objective representations of exiled professionals in Canada8
How should one read Trump’s map of the ‘deal of the century’?8
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes7
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia7
Bringing the developmental state back in: explaining South Korea’s successful management of COVID-197
Beyond postcolonial heteronomy: Kurdish question, decolonisation, and the relational time of democratic confederalism7
Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector7
Correction7
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar7
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina7
Peace and security ad hoc coalitions: engagement of the Global South and the Global North7
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia7
The Alevis and Roma/Gypsy in Turkey: republican freedom revisited7
Shifting discourses of climate security in India: domestic and international dimensions7
The concentration camps for famine victims in Brazil and the struggle for their public memorialisation7
Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India7
Political healing in East Asian international relations: what, why and how7
Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa7
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations7
Presidential prerogatives, exogenous situations, and Sisyphean IMF loan arrangements: examining fiscal crises in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt7
Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China7
Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq7
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma7
Different times, same story: the (un)changing dynamics of structural dependence in Tanzania6
Beyond ‘networked individuals’: social-media and citizen-led accountability in political protests6
The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey6
When does class matter? Unequal representation in Indonesian legislatures6
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland6
The weak institutionalisation of prior consultation in Peru: ambivalent cooperation between indigenous organisations and state activists6
Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
The hostile side of the state: Siracusa Principles, human rights and the precarity of COVID-19 policing in Nigeria6
India as a ‘crypto-ethnic democracy’: the dynamics of ‘control’ in relation to peripheral ethnic minorities6
The politics of aid: discursive boundary-making and the war of position in Greece’s humanitarian landscape6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa6
From colonial subjects to post-colonial citizens? Considerations for a contemporary study of Black México6
Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa: structures, strategies and emerging patterns6
Development and national security: Indonesia’s Natuna Island and the South China Sea issue6
Fixing the collective action problem in sovereign debt restructuring: significance of Global South solidarity6
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations5
Rereading Turkey’s recent history through the lens of rock music: how rock has lost its socio-political edge in neoliberal times5
The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actors5
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka5
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey5
(Un)familiar familialism: the recent shift in family politics in Iran5
Chinese financing in Ethiopia’s infrastructure sector: agency distribution within and outside the state5
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria5
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees5
New extractivism and failed development in Azerbaijan5
Coloniality and the Global North war against disinformation: the case of the European Union5
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group5
The Ethiopia–Eritrea rapprochement: highly personalised and less-institutionalised initiative5
The role of the Sustainable Development Goals for digital development professionals: lessons for the post-2030 development goals5
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens5
Reclaiming partnership – ‘rightful resistance’ in a Norths/Souths cooperation5
Towards a non-hegemonic world order – emancipation and the political agency of the Global South in a changing world order5
A case for agonistic peacebuilding in Colombia5
Climate security in Southeast Asia: navigating concepts, approaches and practices5
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries5
Agonistic reconciliation: inclusion, decolonisation and the need for radical innovation5
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria5
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia5
Correction5
The role of civil servants in the dignification of victims in Meta, Colombia5
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory5
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation5
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq5
Iran’s soft power in Venezuela5
In exile: the office of the African National Congress of South Africa in Sweden5
Promoting Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience in Palestine–Israel: normalising the status quo5
Brazilian alliance perspectives: towards a BRICS development–security alliance?5
The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies5
Climate change in the Asia-Pacific security architecture – the case of ASEAN5
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria4
‘They count us among the dead’: ageing women’s experiences of intergenerational conflict in a changing rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa4
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity4
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges4
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region4
Discourse, medical metaphor and the East Asian medicine approach to conflict resolution4
Women’s dialogic encounters: agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts4
The ‘competitive authoritarian’ turn in Turkey: bandwagoning versus reality4
The onset of BRICS cooperation on climate change: material change, ideational convergence and the road to Copenhagen 20094
Feminist intersectional activism in the Colombian Truth Commission: constructing counter-hegemonic narratives of the armed conflict in the Colombian Caribbean4
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies4
Solidarity and colonial analogies in Irish republican feminists’ discursive practices, 1890s–1980s4
When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law4
Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P4
Recentring industrial policy paradigm within IPE and development studies4
Memory and the social meanings of famine4
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square4
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description: revisiting the national identity formation process4
The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan4
A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia4
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model4
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation?4
Wartime protected area governance: the case of Colombia’s Alto Fragua Indiwasi National Park4
Dispossession and the militarised developer state: financialisation and class power on the agrarian–urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan4
African Ubuntu and Sustainable Development Goals: seeking human mutual relations and service in development4
Contemporary fellow travellers: Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists and the theory and political practice of Marxism4
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations4
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a ‘smart economics’ discourse empower?4
Is Africa China’s neo-dependency in the making?4
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa4
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies4
The politics of rhetoric: examining popular discourse in Jammu and Kashmir4
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town4
Traversing the intersections of decoloniality and liquid modern consumerism in human trafficking4
China as a ‘rising power’: why the status quo matters3
The use of zakat in the pandemic response: the case of Islamic Relief and BAZNAS in Indonesia3
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category3
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South3
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival3
Beyond neo-imperialist intentionality: explaining African agency in liberal peace interventions3
Expertise at the intersection of technicality and ambiguity: international governance of gender and development3
Resisting population control: global women’s health activism and contraceptive controversies, 1980s–1990s3
The Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme and the EU’s normative dilemma: the case of Myanmar’s garment sector3
Hiroshima in Egypt: interpretations and imaginations of the atomic age3
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters3
Statement of Removal3
The developmental state and its discontent: the evolution of the open government data policy in Taiwan3
Gulf responses to Syrian refugee arrivals in Lebanon: narratives of legitimisation3
Truth processes and decolonial transformation: a comparative view of Guatemala, Peru, Chile and Colombia3
Refugee flows, foreign policy, and safe haven nexus in Turkey3
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy3
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’3
Whose and what aid securitisation? An analysis of EU aid narratives and flows3
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes3
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices3
Counterinsurgency against queers in Turkey3
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar3
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil3
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era3
Land appropriation, customary tenure and rural livelihoods: gold mining in Ghana3
‘Rainbow is not the new black’: #FeesMustFall and the demythication of South Africa’s liberation narrative3
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab3
South–South cooperation: building productive bridges between Latin America and Africa3
Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses3
Navigating design and innovation hegemonies in Chilean crafts3
The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso3
Continuity and change in Saudi Arabia’s development and humanitarian aid3
White supremacy and the racial logic of the global preventing and countering violent extremism agenda3
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes3
Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa3
Constructing the future: solidarity action in Nicaragua3
A dialogical appraisal of diasporic women’s work to impact change in Iran3
Election, ethnic voting and regime change in The Gambia3
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery3
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation3
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War3
Understanding Syrian refugees in Turkey from an environment of insecurity and the conflict model of migration perspective3
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey3
The ghost of Hernán Cortés: the colonial heritage in the Americas in the Cold War and post-Cold War era3
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security3
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil3
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction3
Do regional powers prioritise their regions? Comparing Brazil, South Africa and Turkey3
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study3
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda3
Time to live well: well-being and time affluence for sustainable development3
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach3
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis3
Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia3
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict3
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza2
Migrants’ entangled socio-political and biological lives during the COVID-19 emergency in Brazil2
(Ir)relevant doctrines and African realities: neoliberal and Marxist influences on labour migration governance in Southern Africa2
Unpacking the impact of mega-regional agreements: the EU–Mercosur case2
Exploring the preference for bilateral aid: Gulf oil states’ aid to Yemen2
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency2
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia2
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)2
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus2
How do refugees navigate the UNHCR’s bureaucracy? The role of rumours in accessing humanitarian aid and resettlement2
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective2
Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids2
Ethiopia’s 1984/85 famine and the Red Terror Trials2
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world2
‘The Key to solving all problems’? Unpacking China’s development-as-security approach in Mali2
Navigating through depoliticisation: international stakeholders and refugee reception in Jordan and Turkey2
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study2
Ecology, security and international action: beyond sanctions on North Korea2
Examining Chinese peasants’ transnational communication patterns and identity negotiations on an Algerian construction site2
A historic review of deforestation and afforestation in North Korea2
‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration2
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery2
The side doors of immigration: multi-tier migration regimes in Japan and South Korea2
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen2
Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate2
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians2
Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-192
Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates2
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