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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The visual politics of polyalignment in Argentina: lithium extraction in the geopolitics of clean-energy transitions39
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina35
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict35
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)30
The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis26
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers23
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean23
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)22
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia22
Gender and urban poverty in India21
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination21
The evolving multilateral defence diplomacy in the Caribbean region: prospects and challenges20
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries19
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South19
Extractivism as a constitutional bind: a material analysis19
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War19
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity19
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq19
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland18
Ghost airports: the boom and bust of large infrastructure projects17
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria16
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria16
Security assistance to Africa: new Cold War or new public goods?15
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation14
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery14
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil14
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices14
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model13
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia13
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda13
Paradox of plenty in Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 policy implementation: implications for effective policy execution13
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges13
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square13
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War12
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective12
Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood: governing street vendors in Kolkata12
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?12
What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide12
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?12
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations12
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry12
Perceptions of China in the Middle East and North Africa: an analysis in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza12
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes12
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery11
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
Structural exploitation in the Colombian Amazon: a materialist study of forest carbon offsets11
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis11
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes11
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians10
The everyday lives of drugs10
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study10
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine10
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict10
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya10
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin10
From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana10
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study10
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena10
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi10
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis10
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system10
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward9
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus9
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism9
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines9
Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey9
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’9
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets the state: a post-pandemic compromise9
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice9
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing9
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry9
Re-indigenising feminism: gender, genocide and Gaza9
‘Authentic’ multilateralism and the stigmatisation of ‘small circles’: China, India, and the contestation over institutional design9
The pressure of waste: technopolitical crisis, ecological imaginaries and toilet redesign in South Africa9
Spanish official development assistance to Colombia from 2007 to 20239
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?8
A digital cold war in Africa? Capitalist multiplicity, digital transformation, and shifting dependencies amid US–China tech rivalry8
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans8
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana8
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects8
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala8
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh8
Step up, step down, step out: the gendering of community health work in pastoralist Kenya8
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?8
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge8
The Russia–Ukraine war: understanding the Global South’s vote at the UN and its implications for the current world order8
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey8
Agency, extractivism, and development: the case of the Lobito Corridor8
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul8
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?8
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan8
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law8
Dependent development in the twenty-first century8
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines8
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
Hierarchy, hypocrisy and accountability in the Inter-American Development Bank8
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar8
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism7
Colonial scripts: how Western political discourse facilitates the erasure of Palestinian humanity7
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar7
Locating Africa in the Second Cold War: the geopolitical economy of Kenyan polyalignment7
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia7
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?7
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan7
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy7
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations7
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations7
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma7
Democracy, oligarchy and institutionalised violence: the Colombian experience7
Gold as something to be proud of? Contradictions of ethical consumerism in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America7
Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies6
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security6
Exploring coloniality of knowledge in Pakistani public policy6
Proxy wars in a multipolar world: mechanisms of strategic influence and power reconfiguration6
Correction6
Planned misery in paradise: a justice-centered analysis of the socio-legal exploitation of Puerto Rico6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka6
Repressive connectivity and digital resistance: internet shutdowns, speech and networked counterpublics in Manipur6
Against the charge of charity: refugee-led organisations, localisation and decolonising humanitarianism6
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation6
Correction6
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa6
NGOs and the sociocultural adaptation of refugees: exploring challenges and impact6
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Sensing, tracing, walking: phenomenological investigations of ruins and afterlives of projects6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia6
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design6
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey6
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival6
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza6
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America6
Statement of Removal6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
Diplomats in uniform – the evolution of Rwanda’s foreign policy and how it became indispensable within a decade5
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging5
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work5
The (In)Visibility of Equality: A Critique of Islamic-Legal Feminism discourse in Iran5
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering5
Fragmented multilateralism and international institutions: between complexities and challenges5
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico5
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond5
Walking the talk: autoethnographic reflections on co-creating regenerative education within international development studies5
Rural mobilities, gendered youth transitions and delineations of a transient citizenship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia5
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image5
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia5
Presidents and diplomacy: ideology’s impact on Brazil’s international forest engagement5
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1965
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen5
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia5
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace5
Resurrecting a presumed ghost: the challenges and revival of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania in a changing political landscape5
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach5
Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia5
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence5
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia5
Variations in right-wing populism: a comparative study of Türkiye and Brazil5
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’5
African coups and the limits of electoralism5
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation5
Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America5
Why not help a Muslim brother? A poststructuralist analysis of the Welfare ( Refah ) Party’s stance on the Somali intervention in the 1990s4
Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans4
Weaving an alternative partnership: a collaborative autoethnography on ‘failing’ to research epistemic freedom4
Correction4
Feminicides in Peru and Colombia: the role of legal and illegal capitalist relations4
Settler colonialism and the rhetoric of voluntary migration in Gaza4
Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America4
Overlooked forms of non-democracy? Insights from hybrid regimes4
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance4
Developmentalism at the periphery: addressing global financial asymmetries4
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: the solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon’s multi-dimensional crisis since 20204
Dancing in-between : interstitial feminist defiance in Iran’s public and digital spaces4
An agonistic analysis of reintegration of the FARC-EP in the Colombian peace agreement4
Performing a paper park – visions, controversies and side-effects of a transboundary conservation megaproject4
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa4
A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures4
Fixing China’s humanitarian aid architecture: what are the lessons from the European Union and the United States?4
From misogyny to security: women and the state in Iran4
Gendered extraction in Sudan: how extractive economic activities exacerbate conflict in an era of great power competition4
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union4
Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the ‘Green economy’4
Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector4
Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday4
Architecture, diplomacy and soft power: Israel and Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria4
Challenges to the relational integration of urban refugee children into the national education system of Mozambique4
On migrants, violence and the contours of colonised knowledge4
Right to employment and ecology of labour: India’s employment guarantee scheme and environmental conservation and rejuvenation4
Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal4
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals4
Syrian refugees in Turkey: exploring the role of I/NGOs in refugee crisis4
Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies4
The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion?4
Does regional market integration facilitate technological diversification? Evidence from China4
A history of ananyamukuta – Shona midwives: identity, roles and development in Zimbabwe, 1880s to 1970s4
More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi4
‘The tears don’t give you funding’: data neocolonialism in development in the Global South4
Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi4
Forging alliances: political competition and industrial policy in democratic Brazil4
Degrees of peace: universities and embodied experiences of conflict in post-war Sri Lanka4
Mobilising care: an analysis of care and mobility policies in Bogotá and Belo Horizonte4
Post-truth populism as an emerging electoral strategy: the case of Turkey’s 2023 elections4
Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid4
Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India4
Politics, pattern and processes of pseudonym of decolonisation: knowledge production and language fragility in China–Nigeria relations4
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards4
Productive vs. reproductive work: rethinking the relationship4
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
Mobility, diversity, & speculative racial capital: navigating inclusion and exclusion in an African urban gateway3
The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan3
Neo-Ottomanism, Islam and migrants: the AKP’s battle in North Cyprus3
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar3
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region3
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
Moral geographies: Indian exceptionalism, Africa, and the politics of South–South cooperation3
Partners in preservation: U.S., Iran, and the global politics of counterrevolution in Lebanon3
Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the COVID-19 pandemic response and future implications3
Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-193
The struggle for water in rural Paraguay: a ‘perverse confluence’ analysis of subversive participation3
An informal mode for multilateral cooperation: assessing the European Union’s engagements with informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs)3
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey3
Wartime burial from below: combatants’ responses to combatants’ deaths in Ukraine and South Sudan3
The Ethiopia–Eritrea rapprochement: highly personalised and less-institutionalised initiative3
Framing ‘love jihad’: nationalists’ discourse construction in a right-wing extremist sub-issue on social media3
Habitus and ideological metamorphosis: unpacking the paradox of Pakistan’s Deobandi madrassahs’ response to Taliban 2.03
Otherness without boundaries: an autoethnographic perspective from an aboriginal South African survivor of local xenophobia3
Strategies of women’s movements to counter backlashes in Pakistan: a case study of Aurat March3
Deeply divided along aid lines? Chinese loans, Cameroon and Anglophone marginalisation3
It will take a global village to find cures for global pandemics: the Ubuntu perspective3
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South3
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a ‘smart economics’ discourse empower?3
Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P3
‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan3
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group3
Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger3
The Louis Hartz trap redux: rethinking the United States–Republic of Korea relations today3
Iran in the Whirlpool of the ‘look to the east’ policy: how dignity and wisdom are sacrificed to expediency3
Economic statecraft in the New Cold War: the US and China’s competing strategies in Ethiopian industrial parks3
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