Third World Quarterly

Papers
(The TQCC of Third World Quarterly is 4. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transforming global critical minerals governance: is a green new international economic order possible?43
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict42
Gender and urban poverty in India35
The evolving multilateral defence diplomacy in the Caribbean region: prospects and challenges33
Extractivism as a constitutional bind: a material analysis31
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean28
Pluriversality as methodology27
Microfinance as post-conflict women’s economic development: issues in adopting a smart economic strategy26
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina24
The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis23
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War23
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers23
Adaptive political economy of the Egyptian small and medium enterprises (SMEs)22
‘Don’t cause trouble’: speculative governance, ward administration and fragmented sovereignty in urban Myanmar22
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination21
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)21
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)20
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South19
The visual politics of polyalignment in Argentina: lithium extraction in the geopolitics of clean-energy transitions19
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland18
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries18
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil16
Security assistance to Africa: new Cold War or new public goods?16
Paradox of plenty in Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 policy implementation: implications for effective policy execution16
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices16
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation16
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square16
Ghost airports: the boom and bust of large infrastructure projects15
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model15
The truth behind tariff threats: unpacking the economic and strategic fallout of the 2025 US–India dispute15
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia14
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity14
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria14
Cooperation or risk? Rethinking the Belt and Road Initiative and the geopolitical dynamics of the Western Balkans13
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War13
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges13
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery12
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations12
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?12
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective12
Structural exploitation in the Colombian Amazon: a materialist study of forest carbon offsets12
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis12
Perceptions of China in the Middle East and North Africa: an analysis in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza11
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes11
Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood: governing street vendors in Kolkata11
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency11
Between insurance and refuge: minority precarity and diaspora citizenship in France and Argentina11
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study11
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators11
The geopolitics of reporting a genocide: an analysis of the coverage of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in Foreign Affairs and the Ne11
Resilience by design: emergency architecture, testing and the ecology of aid (1970–1980)11
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict10
What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide10
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes9
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus9
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin9
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena9
The emergence and politics of polyalignment9
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi9
The evolution of the national discourse on Chinese mining in Ecuador9
The everyday lives of drugs9
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis9
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians9
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine9
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice9
Even sovereignist rulers need foreign friends: how political leaders in Africa design external engagement for domestic legitimacy9
Who decides how women travel? Gender, authority and transportation in Hyderabad, India9
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism8
Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water8
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets the state: a post-pandemic compromise8
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’8
From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana8
When agency meets the Global South: normativity, empirics and anticipated consequences for the study of international relations8
Global care chains: everyday infrastructures of extractive constitutionalism8
The defence of wealth in fragile democracies and authoritarian regimes: lessons from El Salvador8
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya8
The monetary dimension of ecological damage in the Global South8
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study8
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans8
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
‘Authentic’ multilateralism and the stigmatisation of ‘small circles’: China, India, and the contestation over institutional design8
Fixed attitudes, contextual shifts: deconstructing public support for Lebanese Hezbollah through survey experiments8
Re-indigenising feminism: gender, genocide and Gaza8
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines8
The pressure of waste: technopolitical crisis, ecological imaginaries and toilet redesign in South Africa8
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law7
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge7
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing7
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey7
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar7
The Russia–Ukraine war: understanding the Global South’s vote at the UN and its implications for the current world order7
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana7
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh7
From Turtle Island to Palestine: settler-colonial Canada, genocide, and Indigenous foreign policy7
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry7
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?7
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?7
Beyond the binary: why nuanced gender backlash analysis matters in Iraq7
Spanish official development assistance to Colombia from 2007 to 20237
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala7
Dependent development in the twenty-first century7
A digital cold war in Africa? Capitalist multiplicity, digital transformation, and shifting dependencies amid US–China tech rivalry7
Step up, step down, step out: the gendering of community health work in pastoralist Kenya7
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects7
Colonial scripts: how Western political discourse facilitates the erasure of Palestinian humanity6
Against the charge of charity: refugee-led organisations, localisation and decolonising humanitarianism6
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival6
Locating Africa in the Second Cold War: the geopolitical economy of Kenyan polyalignment6
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan6
The diffusion of the concept of ‘the Global South’ in the press: the case of Africa6
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?6
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations6
Gold as something to be proud of? Contradictions of ethical consumerism in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America6
Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia6
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma6
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia6
Agency, extractivism, and development: the case of the Lobito Corridor6
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’6
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector6
Procedural (in)justice: unpacking the role of humanitarian aid targeting in shaping host–refugee relations in Lebanon6
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations6
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey6
Hierarchy, hypocrisy and accountability in the Inter-American Development Bank6
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar6
Democracy, oligarchy and institutionalised violence: the Colombian experience6
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan6
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation5
Correction5
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design5
Planned misery in paradise: a justice-centered analysis of the socio-legal exploitation of Puerto Rico5
Exploring coloniality of knowledge in Pakistani public policy5
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka5
Sensing, tracing, walking: phenomenological investigations of ruins and afterlives of projects5
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction5
NGOs and the sociocultural adaptation of refugees: exploring challenges and impact5
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies5
Repressive connectivity and digital resistance: internet shutdowns, speech and networked counterpublics in Manipur5
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa5
Proxy wars in a multipolar world: mechanisms of strategic influence and power reconfiguration5
Rural mobilities, gendered youth transitions and delineations of a transient citizenship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia4
African coups and the limits of electoralism4
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen4
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1964
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine4
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept4
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza4
Financial footprint of development finance institutions in the restructuring of Turkey’s agri-food sector4
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image4
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil4
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging4
China and South America in the Antarctic: divergent motivations and diplomatic alignment4
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’4
Presidents and diplomacy: ideology’s impact on Brazil’s international forest engagement4
Fragmented multilateralism and international institutions: between complexities and challenges4
Statement of Removal4
Ghost projects and the ambiguity of infrastructure development4
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence4
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia4
‘Our existence is the resistance’: features of Mapuche slow resistance4
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America4
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia4
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach4
Variations in right-wing populism: a comparative study of Türkiye and Brazil4
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security4
Connecting ambitions: how Riyadh and Ankara navigate China’s Belt and Road Initiative for economic and geopolitical gains4
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil4
Banking without governance: the paradox of financial performance under institutional collapse in Haiti4
The (In)Visibility of Equality: A Critique of Islamic-Legal Feminism discourse in Iran4
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America4
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia4
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