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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict124
The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis51
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)37
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination35
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia35
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey32
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean28
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers25
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War24
Gender and urban poverty in India24
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South21
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa20
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina20
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)20
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War18
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil17
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery17
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia16
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation16
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria16
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town16
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq16
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries15
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square15
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria15
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges15
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model15
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda14
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland14
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach14
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity14
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices14
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations13
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy13
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes13
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees13
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study13
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians12
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?12
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery12
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective12
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?11
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency11
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict11
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
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
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry11
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators10
From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana10
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis10
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’10
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism10
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena10
The everyday lives of drugs10
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine10
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi10
From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward10
Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates10
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya10
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice10
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus9
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin9
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing9
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo9
Norm-busting: rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies9
Dependent development in the twenty-first century9
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study9
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library9
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans9
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge9
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines9
Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs9
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system9
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry9
Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey9
The pressure of waste: technopolitical crisis, ecological imaginaries and toilet redesign in South Africa9
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana9
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?8
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law8
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey8
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan8
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar8
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul8
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh8
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?8
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines8
Behind the scenes of science in action: a ‘replication in context’ of a randomised control trial in Morocco8
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism8
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects8
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?8
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations7
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil7
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction7
Correction7
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival7
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
Locating Africa in the Second Cold War: the geopolitical economy of Kenyan polyalignment7
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy7
Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia7
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design7
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa7
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab7
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?7
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma7
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia7
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan7
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey7
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism7
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia7
The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso7
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’7
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala7
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations7
Statement of Removal6
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America6
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts6
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza6
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond6
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia6
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka6
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen6
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1966
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’6
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine6
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image6
Correction6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies6
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation6
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe6
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence6
Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia6
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia5
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia5
The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement5
Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects5
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work5
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance5
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union5
‘The tears don’t give you funding’: data neocolonialism in development in the Global South5
Fixing China’s humanitarian aid architecture: what are the lessons from the European Union and the United States?5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation5
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering5
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace5
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico5
Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India5
The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion?5
Walking the talk: autoethnographic reflections on co-creating regenerative education within international development studies5
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards5
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict5
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging5
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa5
Weaving an alternative partnership: a collaborative autoethnography on ‘failing’ to research epistemic freedom5
More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi5
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals5
Resurrecting a presumed ghost: the challenges and revival of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania in a changing political landscape5
Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies5
Resisting population control: global women’s health activism and contraceptive controversies, 1980s–1990s4
BRICS member states as norm entrepreneurs: worldviews and bids for power in global health and world energy governance4
‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan4
Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia4
Forging alliances: political competition and industrial policy in democratic Brazil4
Syrian refugees in Turkey: exploring the role of I/NGOs in refugee crisis4
Developmentalism at the periphery: addressing global financial asymmetries4
Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi4
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: the solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon’s multi-dimensional crisis since 20204
Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday4
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation4
Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger4
Framing ‘love jihad’: nationalists’ discourse construction in a right-wing extremist sub-issue on social media4
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region4
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group4
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South4
The continuity of Othering in feminist methodology: activist-scholar and the insider/outsider dynamics4
The Ethiopia–Eritrea rapprochement: highly personalised and less-institutionalised initiative4
The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh4
A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures4
Degrees of peace: universities and embodied experiences of conflict in post-war Sri Lanka4
Challenges to the relational integration of urban refugee children into the national education system of Mozambique4
Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid4
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes4
A history of ananyamukuta – Shona midwives: identity, roles and development in Zimbabwe, 1880s to 1970s4
Moral geographies: Indian exceptionalism, Africa, and the politics of South–South cooperation4
Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America4
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order4
Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority4
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations4
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar4
Overlooked forms of non-democracy? Insights from hybrid regimes4
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information4
Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the ‘Green economy’4
Feminicides in Peru and Colombia: the role of legal and illegal capitalist relations4
From misogyny to security: women and the state in Iran4
Correction4
Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans4
Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector4
Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal4
Otherness without boundaries: an autoethnographic perspective from an aboriginal South African survivor of local xenophobia4
‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism4
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey3
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world3
Decolonising faith: Palestinian Liberation Theology in the context of settler-colonialism3
‘Faith in the revolution’: political-religious experiences in Argentina in the 1970s3
The Chagos dispute: where right makes might3
The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan3
Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P3
Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia3
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel3
Leaving Africa behind? COVID-19 and global public goods3
What role do social accountability actors play in resisting media capture in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana3
The state of academic (un)freedom and scholar rescue programmes: a contemporary and critical overview3
Southern agency in global norms creation: Bangladesh in the SDGs formulation process3
Towards a more inclusive diaspora policy orientation in Africa3
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a ‘smart economics’ discourse empower?3
Neo-Ottomanism, Islam and migrants: the AKP’s battle in North Cyprus3
Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the COVID-19 pandemic response and future implications3
Martyrs as a conduit for legitimacy – explaining Iran’s foreign policy towards Syria3
Towards a non-hegemonic world order – emancipation and the political agency of the Global South in a changing world order3
Deeply divided along aid lines? Chinese loans, Cameroon and Anglophone marginalisation3
Joining a migrant caravan: herd behaviour and structural factors3
Who’s in the driving seat? The interplay between advocacy organisations and local communities resisting coal mining in rural Kenya3
China reshaping green value chain initiatives: between global and Southern standards3
Familiar strangers? Mainland Chinese immigrants navigating racial capital in Hong Kong3
Rescuing reconciliation: finding its role in peace research and practice3
Understanding climate security in the Indo-Pacific3
The struggle for water in rural Paraguay: a ‘perverse confluence’ analysis of subversive participation3
From epistemic erasure to epistemic resistance: autoethnographic reflections on the potential of body mapping in decolonising methodologies3
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation?3
Refugee flows, foreign policy, and safe haven nexus in Turkey3
A case for agonistic peacebuilding in Colombia3
They sold our festival : transnational activism and contested public memory making around Telangana ‘state festivals’3
An informal mode for multilateral cooperation: assessing the European Union’s engagements with informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs)3
Exploring dignity in the context of displacement – evidence from Rohingyas in Bangladesh and IDPs in Afghanistan3
Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-193
Politicians, officers and political transition: the case of post 2003 Iraq3
Toxic turn in Brazilian agriculture? The political economy of pesticide legalisation in post-2016 Brazil3
The war on terror in context: domestic dimensions of Ethiopia and Kenya’s policies towards Somalia3
What makes an acute emergency? Temporal manifestation patterns and global health emergencies3
Maritime strategy in Africa: strategic flaws exposing Africa to vulnerabilities from food insecurity to external domination3
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