OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Third World Quarterly is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers	106
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos	41
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 conflict	33
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa	32
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina	29
Gender and urban poverty in India	27
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean	24
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia	23
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War	23
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination	22
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey	22
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)	20
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War	19
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South	19
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland	17
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq	17
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria	16
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria	16
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries	16
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees	15
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model	15
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town	15
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations	15
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity	14

‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda	14
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach	14
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery	14
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square	13
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia	13
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges	13
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices	13
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil	13
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation	12
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes	12
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy	12
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters	12
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis	12
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era	11
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict	11
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study	11
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?	11
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency	11
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators	11
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?	11
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry	11
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery	11
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective	11
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians	10
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya	10
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes	10
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study	10
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi	10
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus	10
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism	9
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis	9
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice	9
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine	9
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’	9
The everyday lives of drugs	9
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena	9
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library	9
Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs	9
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward	9
Ecology, security and international action: beyond sanctions on North Korea	9
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system	9
Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates	9
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines	8
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana	8
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge	8
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans	8
Norm-busting: rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies	8
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo	8
Dependent development in the twenty-first century	8
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines	8

‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry	8
The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq	8
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey	8
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years	8
Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey	8
Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections	8
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing	8
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma	7
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul	7
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar	7
Behind the scenes of science in action: a ‘replication in context’ of a randomised control trial in Morocco	7
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 Bangladesh	7
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?	7
Sub-Saharan Africa’s desire forliberaldemocracy: civil society to the rescue?	7
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?	7
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law	7
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan	7
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects	7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector	7
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations	7
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala	7
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism	7
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism	6
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan	6
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy	6
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia	6
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security	6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka	6
Correction	6
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar	6
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia	6
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival	6
Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod	6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia	6
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab	6
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey	6
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 Nations	6
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 Faso	6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept	6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies	6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory	6
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe	5
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America	5
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine	5
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil	5
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia	5
A new Chinese modernity? The discourse of Eco-civilisation applied to the belt and road initiative	5
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil	5
Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia	5
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict	5
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace	5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia	5
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (196	5
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 Teshreen	5
Correction	5
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation	5
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction	5
Pandemics and the punitive regulation of the weak: experiences of COVID-19 survivors from urban poor communities in the Philippines	5
The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement	5
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image	5
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond	5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America	5
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence	5
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation	5
Statement of Removal	5
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan	5
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza	5
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts	5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering	5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging	5
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach	5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation	5
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia	5