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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category72
Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: necropolitics in Turkey38
A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage32
The rise of the Global South and the rise in carbon emissions24
Refugee commodification: the diffusion of refugee rent-seeking in the Global South24
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’22
China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between ‘rising’ power status and solidarity with the Global South21
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism21
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel20
Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies18
New actors and contested architectures in global migration governance: continuity and change18
Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa17
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach16
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia16
Dispossession and the militarised developer state: financialisation and class power on the agrarian–urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan16
Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: a political economy of overoptimism16
Bringing the developmental state back in: explaining South Korea’s successful management of COVID-1916
Rethinking reintegration in Nigeria: community perceptions of former Boko Haram combatants15
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism15
Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus15
How local political economy dynamics are shaping the Belt and Road Initiative15
Economic restructuring and migrant workers’ coping strategies in China’s Pearl River Delta14
Commodification of family lands and the changing dynamics of access in Ghana14
Theorising migration politics: do political regimes matter?14
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens13
A Caribbean perspective on China–Caribbean relations: global IR, dependency and the postcolonial condition13
Journalistic routines as factors promoting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan12
Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq12
Pandemics and the punitive regulation of the weak: experiences of COVID-19 survivors from urban poor communities in the Philippines12
Criminalisation of kindness: narratives of legality in the European politics of migration containment12
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters12
Blockchain as a tool to facilitate property rights protection in the Global South: lessons from India’s Andhra Pradesh state11
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world11
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing11
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria11
Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey11
Examining the promise of ‘the local’ for improving gender equality in agriculture and climate change adaptation10
Kazakhstan’s leverage and economic diversification amid Chinese connectivity dreams10
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy10
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects9
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict9
Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India9
‘We will memorise our home’: exploring settler colonialism as an interpretive framework for Kashmir9
African Ubuntu and Sustainable Development Goals: seeking human mutual relations and service in development9
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos9
The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement9
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description: revisiting the national identity formation process9
Change and stability at the World Bank: inclusive practices and neoliberal technocratic rationality9
The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq8
Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate8
Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yinyang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations8
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward8
‘Barbarising’ China in American trade war discourse: the assault on Huawei8
Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: a critical engagement with contemporary international relations8
Doing business under the framework of disorder: illiberal legalism in Indonesia8
The coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa: experiences from Nigeria8
Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa7
Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal7
Dependent development in the twenty-first century7
Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies7
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence7
Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia7
When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law7
Do regional powers prioritise their regions? Comparing Brazil, South Africa and Turkey7
Exploring gendered change: concepts and trends in gender equality assessments7
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines7
Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring?7
Toxic turn in Brazilian agriculture? The political economy of pesticide legalisation in post-2016 Brazil7
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts7
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey7
A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia7
Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India7
Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics: interpreting the exit of Rio Tinto from the diamond fields of Central India7
Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the ‘Green economy’7
The evolution of the Gulf states as humanitarian donors7
The advance of the state and the renewal of industrial policy in the age of strategic competition7
How do refugees navigate the UNHCR’s bureaucracy? The role of rumours in accessing humanitarian aid and resettlement7
Understanding the motivations and roles of national development experts in Ghana: ‘We do all the donkey work and they take the glory’7
The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies7
The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actors6
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes6
Manufacturing the Ummah: Turkey’s transnational populism and construction of the people globally6
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation6
UN Resolution 1514: the creation of a new post-colonial sovereignty6
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge6
Recognition of states and colonialism in the twenty-first century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s recognition practice6
The impact of COVID-19 on the eradication of poverty: an incorrect diagnosis6
A conditional norm: chemical warfare from colonialism to contemporary civil wars6
The side doors of immigration: multi-tier migration regimes in Japan and South Korea6
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations6
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar6
Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development6
The turn from peacebuilding to stabilisation: Colombia after the 2018 presidential election6
Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan6
Trapped in the underground economy: Syrian refugees in the informal labour market in Turkey6
Promotion of the rule of law: reinforcing domination through the internationalisation of legal norms6
The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America6
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda6
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations6
Connecting religious transnationalism and development: charitable giving amongst Zimbabwean Catholics in London6
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South6
Disarticulation and chains of equivalence: agonism and non-sectarian movements in post-war Beirut6
Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic: on the checks and balances between the state and society6
Anti-populist coups d’état in the twenty-first century: reasons, dynamics and consequences6
Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality: from ideology to practice6
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia6
How instability creates stability: the survival of democracy in Vanuatu5
The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship: neoliberal solidarities on Zambia’s Copperbelt5
Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism5
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union5
Decolonising social norms change: from ‘grandmother-exclusionary bias’ to ‘grandmother-inclusive’ approaches5
Who depends on whom? Uganda’s refugee ‘success story’, corruption and the international community5
A new Chinese modernity? The discourse of Eco-civilisation applied to the belt and road initiative5
Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses5
ICT for development and the novel principles of the Sustainable Development Goals5
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe5
Agonistic reconciliation: inclusion, decolonisation and the need for radical innovation5
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa5
Hāth se sīkhna : geographies of practical learning and India’s agricultural skills agenda5
Suspending the antagonism: situated agonistic peace in a border bazaar5
‘What is to be done?’ Rethinking socialism(s) and socialist legacies in a postcolonial world5
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order5
Remittances and social capital: livelihood strategies of Timorese workers participating in the Australian Seasonal Worker Programme5
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo5
Climate and security: UN agenda-setting and the ‘Global South’5
The political economy of neoliberalism in Brazil: towards a Polanyian approach5
There is life beyond the European Union: revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States5
The Global South and global human rights: international responsibility for the right to development5
Skills to stay: social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka5
The UAE’s foreign policymaking in Yemen: from bandwagoning to buck-passing5
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma5
Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition5
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information5
International cooperation in peacebuilding: stakeholder interaction in Colombia5
China-backed infrastructure in the Global South: lessons from the case of the Brazil–Peru Transcontinental Railway project5
Legitimating the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from Chinese official rhetoric5
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards5
Mangling life trajectories: institutionalised calamity and illegal peasants in Colombia5
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library5
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation5
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?5
Promoting Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience in Palestine–Israel: normalising the status quo5
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar4
Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda4
Revisiting agrarian questions of capital: examining diversification by capitalist farmers in Punjab, India4
Towards social justice and economic empowerment? Exploring Jamaica’s progress with implementing cannabis law reform4
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism4
Communicating creativities: interculturality, postcoloniality and power relations4
Upside-down diplomacy – foreign perceptions about Bolsonaro’s intentions and initial transformations of Brazil’s foreign policy and status4
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace4
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators4
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia4
‘Rainbow is not the new black’: #FeesMustFall and the demythication of South Africa’s liberation narrative4
‘They count us among the dead’: ageing women’s experiences of intergenerational conflict in a changing rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa4
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model4
Domestic humanitarianism: the Mission France of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde4
Demystifying the causes of the Amhara people’s protest in Ethiopia4
Humanitarian fables: morals, meanings and consequences for humanitarian practice4
Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India4
Managing the humanitarian micro-space: the practices of relief access in Syria4
Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections4
The plurinational state and Bolivia’s formación abigarrada4
Challenging stories about child domestic work: evidence from South-West Nigeria4
‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration4
Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses4
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq4
Syrian refugees in Turkey: exploring the role of I/NGOs in refugee crisis4
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group4
After authoritarian technocracy: the space for industrial policy-making in democratic developing countries4
The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a tale of two discourses4
Modes of governance and the everyday lives of illicit drug producers in Afghanistan4
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals4
Deportability, humanitarianism and development: neoliberal deportation and the Global Assistance for Irregular Migrants program4
Corporate labour standards and work quality: insights from the agro-export sector of Guanajuato, Central Mexico4
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil4
Another decolonial approach is possible: international studies in an antiblack world4
Bringing states back into commodity-centric environmental governance: the telecoupled soy trade between Brazil and China4
The developmental state and its discontent: the evolution of the open government data policy in Taiwan4
The ‘competitive authoritarian’ turn in Turkey: bandwagoning versus reality4
South–South cooperation resilience in Brazil: presidential leadership, institutions and bureaucracies3
From field to theory: rethinking development studies through study tours3
‘World of tomorrow’ Afro–Asian solidarity and the Great Leap Forward of Culture in the People’s Republic of China3
Navigating through depoliticisation: international stakeholders and refugee reception in Jordan and Turkey3
Citizen assessments of clientelistic practices in South Africa3
High in the sky: Turkish–Argentine South–South space cooperation3
Agonistic interaction in practice: laughing, dissensus and hegemony in the Northern Ireland Assembly3
Exploring dignity in the context of displacement – evidence from Rohingyas in Bangladesh and IDPs in Afghanistan3
Outsiders to urban-centric growth: the dual social exclusion of migrant tenant farmers in China3
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South3
Facial recognition technology for policing and surveillance in the Global South: a call for bans3
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region3
Manufacturing-led development in the digital age: how power trumps technology3
Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa3
From livelihoods to leisure and back: refugee ‘self-reliance’ as collective practices in Lebanon, India and Greece3
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation3
Understanding power in development studies through emotion and affect: promising lines of enquiry3
The concentration camps for famine victims in Brazil and the struggle for their public memorialisation3
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa3
Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates3
Three locals of peace: a typology of local capacities for peace3
Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs3
Islam and International Relations (IR): why is there no Islamic IR theory?3
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict3
Overlooked forms of non-democracy? Insights from hybrid regimes3
Healing an abnormalised body: bringing the agency of unseen people back to the inter-Korean border3
Developmentalism at the periphery: addressing global financial asymmetries3
Expertise at the intersection of technicality and ambiguity: international governance of gender and development3
From financial inclusion to financial health of refugees: urging for a shift in perspective3
Towards a non-hegemonic world order – emancipation and the political agency of the Global South in a changing world order3
Negotiating caste-subaltern imaginations of the 1943 Bengal famine: methodological underpinnings of a creative-collaborative practice3
Chinese financing in Ethiopia’s infrastructure sector: agency distribution within and outside the state3
Agency and governance in European Union international development3
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies3
The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion?3
Challenging inequality in Kenya, Mexico and the UK3
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey3
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering3
Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis3
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system3
What role do social accountability actors play in resisting media capture in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana3
Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics: legitimising the ‘inferiority’ of Global South countries3
‘Doing good and feeling good’: how narratives in development stymie gender equality in organisations3
Imperial wars and the violence of hunger: remembering and forgetting the Great Persian Famine 1917–19193
Amazonian socio-environmental frontier: struggles, resistance and contradictions in confronting the agrarian extractive frontier3
Refugee flows, foreign policy, and safe haven nexus in Turkey3
Hunger as a weapon of war: Biafra, social media and the politics of famine remembrance3
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges3
Leaving Africa behind? COVID-19 and global public goods3
China as a ‘rising power’: why the status quo matters3
Transnational political economic structures: explaining transnational environmental movements against dams in the lower Mekong region3
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa3
More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi3
New extractivism and failed development in Azerbaijan3
The long shadow of the developmental state: energy infrastructure and environmental sustainability in Southeast Asia3
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia3
Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod3
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine3
The gendered politics of Iran-U.S. relations: sanctions, the JCPOA and women’s security2
Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy2
How should one read Trump’s map of the ‘deal of the century’?2
Democracy in postcolonial Ghana: tropes, state power and the defence committees2
Migration speculation: microfinance and migration in the Global South2
Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy2
Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China2
Registered NGOs and advocacy for women in Iran2
Autocracies and the temptation of sentimentality: repertoires of the past and contemporary meaning-making in the Gulf monarchies2
Left turn to legalism: fact-finding inquiries as political critique in 1970s India2
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy2
Resource allocation in power-sharing arrangements – evidence from Lebanon2
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers2
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