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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category	70
Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: necropolitics in Turkey	37
A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage	30
An inquiry into the digitisation of border and migration management: performativity, contestation and heterogeneous engineering	27
New drivers of conflict in Nigeria: an analysis of the clashes between farmers and pastoralists	26
Iran’s strategic culture: the ‘revolutionary’ and ‘moderation’ narratives on the ballistic missile programme	26
Refugee commodification: the diffusion of refugee rent-seeking in the Global South	24
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’	22
The rise of the Global South and the rise in carbon emissions	22
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category – global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism	21
China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between ‘rising’ power status and solidarity with the Global South	21
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel	20
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism	19
New actors and contested architectures in global migration governance: continuity and change	18
Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies	18
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia	16
Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: a political economy of overoptimism	16
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach	16
How local political economy dynamics are shaping the Belt and Road Initiative	15
Bringing the developmental state back in: explaining South Korea’s successful management of COVID-19	15
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism	15
Rethinking reintegration in Nigeria: community perceptions of former Boko Haram combatants	15
Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus	15
Sustainable sanitation jobs: prospects for enhancing the livelihoods of pit-emptiers in Bangladesh	15
Dispossession and the militarised developer state: financialisation and class power on the agrarian–urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan	14

Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa	14
Economic restructuring and migrant workers’ coping strategies in China’s Pearl River Delta	14
Theorising migration politics: do political regimes matter?	13
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens	13
Commodification of family lands and the changing dynamics of access in Ghana	13
A Caribbean perspective on China–Caribbean relations: global IR, dependency and the postcolonial condition	13
Criminalisation of kindness: narratives of legality in the European politics of migration containment	12
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters	12
Journalistic routines as factors promoting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan	12
The ‘state’ of postcolonial development: China–Rwanda ‘dependency’ in perspective	12
Pandemics and the punitive regulation of the weak: experiences of COVID-19 survivors from urban poor communities in the Philippines	12
Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq	12
Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey	11
Blockchain as a tool to facilitate property rights protection in the Global South: lessons from India’s Andhra Pradesh state	11
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world	11
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing	11
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria	11
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy	10
Kazakhstan’s leverage and economic diversification amid Chinese connectivity dreams	10
Examining the promise of ‘the local’ for improving gender equality in agriculture and climate change adaptation	10
Framing and movement outcomes: the #BringBackOurGirls movement	10
The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico	10
‘We will memorise our home’: exploring settler colonialism as an interpretive framework for Kashmir	9
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description: revisiting the national identity formation process	9
Change and stability at the World Bank: inclusive practices and neoliberal technocratic rationality	9
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict	9
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos	9
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects	9
African Ubuntu and Sustainable Development Goals: seeking human mutual relations and service in development	9
Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India	9
Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: a critical engagement with contemporary international relations	8
The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement	8
The coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa: experiences from Nigeria	8
The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq	8
Doing business under the framework of disorder: illiberal legalism in Indonesia	8
‘Barbarising’ China in American trade war discourse: the assault on Huawei	8
Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations	8
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward	8
Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate	8
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence	7
Trade union education in former French Africa (1959–1965): ideological transmission and the role of French and Italian communists	7
A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia	7
Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India	7
Exploring gendered change: concepts and trends in gender equality assessments	7
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines	7
Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies	7
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts	7
When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law	7
The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies	7
Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa	7

Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics: interpreting the exit of Rio Tinto from the diamond fields of Central India	7
Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the ‘Green economy’	7
Toxic turn in Brazilian agriculture? The political economy of pesticide legalisation in post-2016 Brazil	7
Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia	7
Understanding the motivations and roles of national development experts in Ghana: ‘We do all the donkey work and they take the glory’	7
Do regional powers prioritise their regions? Comparing Brazil, South Africa and Turkey	7
Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal	7
Dependent development in the twenty-first century	7
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations	6
Disarticulation and chains of equivalence: agonism and non-sectarian movements in post-war Beirut	6
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge	6
Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring?	6
Recognition of states and colonialism in the twenty-first century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s recognition practice	6
Democratisation in ambiguous environments: positive prospects for democracy in the MENA region after the Arab Spring	6
The impact of COVID-19 on the eradication of poverty: an incorrect diagnosis	6
A conditional norm: chemical warfare from colonialism to contemporary civil wars	6
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations	6
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey	6
The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actors	6
Manufacturing the Ummah: Turkey’s transnational populism and construction of the people globally	6
UN Resolution 1514: the creation of a new post-colonial sovereignty	6
Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan	6
Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies	6
Anti-populist coups d’état in the twenty-first century: reasons, dynamics and consequences	6
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes	6
Trapped in the underground economy: Syrian refugees in the informal labour market in Turkey	6
How do refugees navigate the UNHCR’s bureaucracy? The role of rumours in accessing humanitarian aid and resettlement	6
Deconstructing the local in peacebuilding practice: representations and realities of Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone	6
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda	6
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation	6
Connecting religious transnationalism and development: charitable giving amongst Zimbabwean Catholics in London	6
Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development	6
The turn from peacebuilding to stabilisation: Colombia after the 2018 presidential election	6
The evolution of the Gulf states as humanitarian donors	6
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar	6
Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic: on the checks and balances between the state and society	6
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South	6
The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America	6
The side doors of immigration: multi-tier migration regimes in Japan and South Korea	6
Digital4development? European data protection in the Global South	6
Agonistic reconciliation: inclusion, decolonisation and the need for radical innovation	5
Hāth se sīkhna : geographies of practical learning and India’s agricultural skills agenda	5
Promoting Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience in Palestine–Israel: normalising the status quo	5
Remittances and social capital: livelihood strategies of Timorese workers participating in the Australian Seasonal Worker Programme	5
Suspending the antagonism: situated agonistic peace in a border bazaar	5
‘What is to be done?’ Rethinking socialism(s) and socialist legacies in a postcolonial world	5
Who depends on whom? Uganda’s refugee ‘success story’, corruption and the international community	5
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
ICT for development and the novel principles of the Sustainable Development Goals	5
The advance of the state and the renewal of industrial policy in the age of strategic competition	5
An imaginary line? Decolonisation, bordering and borderscapes on the Ghana–Togo border	5
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia	5
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe	5
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa	5
Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition	5
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information	5
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union	5
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order	5
Decolonising social norms change: from ‘grandmother-exclusionary bias’ to ‘grandmother-inclusive’ approaches	5
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards	5
Legitimating the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from Chinese official rhetoric	5
A new Chinese modernity? The discourse of Eco-civilisation applied to the belt and road initiative	5
Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality: from ideology to practice	5
Promotion of the rule of law: reinforcing domination through the internationalisation of legal norms	5
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?	5
Skills to stay: social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka	5
The UAE’s foreign policymaking in Yemen: from bandwagoning to buck-passing	5
The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship: neoliberal solidarities on Zambia’s Copperbelt	5
Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism	5
International cooperation in peacebuilding: stakeholder interaction in Colombia	5
Climate and security: UN agenda-setting and the ‘Global South’	5
China-backed infrastructure in the Global South: lessons from the case of the Brazil–Peru Transcontinental Railway project	5
There is life beyond the European Union: revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States	5
The political economy of neoliberalism in Brazil: towards a Polanyian approach	5
Mangling life trajectories: institutionalised calamity and illegal peasants in Colombia	5
Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses	5
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation	5