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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger102
Informality and survival in times of crises: the role of the Quadripartite security committee in wartime Beirut38
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)33
The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh32
Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy29
Migration speculation: microfinance and migration in the Global South26
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’25
The gendered politics of Iran-U.S. relations: sanctions, the JCPOA and women’s security23
Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday23
The continuity of Othering in feminist methodology: activist-scholar and the insider/outsider dynamics22
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan22
Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis20
Politicians: the sinews of counterinsurgent governance in Colombia20
Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism17
Student protests at Boğaziçi University against Turkey’s authoritarian regime17
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa16
The concentration camps for famine victims in Brazil and the struggle for their public memorialisation16
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean16
Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq16
Gender and urban poverty in India16
‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism15
Why veterans lose: the decline of retired military officers in Myanmar’s post-junta elections14
Sub-Saharan Africa’s desire forliberaldemocracy: civil society to the rescue?14
Strengths-based Gram Sabhas? Challenges and radical possibilities when ‘measuring’ poverty in India14
Contested racial capitals of English teachers in China: reassessing Whiteness by use-value14
Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod14
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers13
China’s ‘subtle ingratiation’ in the Global South: evidence from Zimbabwe13
BRICS member states as norm entrepreneurs: worldviews and bids for power in global health and world energy governance13
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars: reconceptualising the consequences of external support13
Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations12
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination12
Otherness without boundaries: an autoethnographic perspective from an aboriginal South African survivor of local xenophobia12
Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos12
Recentring the coloniality of global policing11
Deleuze & Guattari on protest weakness in Iraq11
Suspending the antagonism: situated agonistic peace in a border bazaar11
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War11
9/11 and branding the Gulf States’ foreign aid11
Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India10
The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria10
Floating people, changing climate: a migrant-sensitive approach to climate adaptation and mobilities in the Bengal Delta10
Resource allocation in power-sharing arrangements – evidence from Lebanon10
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict10
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)9
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South9
Who’s responsible for intellectual displacement? Objective representations of exiled professionals in Canada9
Political healing in East Asian international relations: what, why and how9
Making sense of Lebanon’s approach to the (non-)securitisation of Syrian refugees: a political economic perspective9
Autocracies and the temptation of sentimentality: repertoires of the past and contemporary meaning-making in the Gulf monarchies9
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia9
Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy9
Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America9
How should one read Trump’s map of the ‘deal of the century’?9
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar9
Bringing the developmental state back in: explaining South Korea’s successful management of COVID-198
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma8
Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa8
Peace and security ad hoc coalitions: engagement of the Global South and the Global North8
Shifting discourses of climate security in India: domestic and international dimensions8
The Alevis and Roma/Gypsy in Turkey: republican freedom revisited8
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina8
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia8
Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector8
Beyond postcolonial heteronomy: Kurdish question, decolonisation, and the relational time of democratic confederalism8
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy8
Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes8
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations8
Correction8
‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order7
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information7
Presidential prerogatives, exogenous situations, and Sisyphean IMF loan arrangements: examining fiscal crises in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt7
Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China7
Resisting population control: global women’s health activism and contraceptive controversies, 1980s–1990s7
Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority7
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland7
Interrupting whatever seems inevitable: decolonising knowledge to make another experience of ‘we’7
Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India7
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey7
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism7
Towards a non-hegemonic world order – emancipation and the political agency of the Global South in a changing world order7
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey7
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia7
‘Rainbow is not the new black’: #FeesMustFall and the demythication of South Africa’s liberation narrative7
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation7
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a ‘smart economics’ discourse empower?7
Beyond ‘networked individuals’: social-media and citizen-led accountability in political protests7
The politics of aid: discursive boundary-making and the war of position in Greece’s humanitarian landscape7
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa6
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries6
In exile: the office of the African National Congress of South Africa in Sweden6
India as a ‘crypto-ethnic democracy’: the dynamics of ‘control’ in relation to peripheral ethnic minorities6
Brazilian alliance perspectives: towards a BRICS development–security alliance?6
Fixing the collective action problem in sovereign debt restructuring: significance of Global South solidarity6
Solidarity and colonial analogies in Irish republican feminists’ discursive practices, 1890s–1980s6
Climate security in Southeast Asia: navigating concepts, approaches and practices6
Rereading Turkey’s recent history through the lens of rock music: how rock has lost its socio-political edge in neoliberal times6
Development and national security: Indonesia’s Natuna Island and the South China Sea issue6
Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group6
The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey6
The weak institutionalisation of prior consultation in Peru: ambivalent cooperation between indigenous organisations and state activists6
Climate change in the Asia-Pacific security architecture – the case of ASEAN6
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees6
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia6
A case for agonistic peacebuilding in Colombia6
Iran’s soft power in Venezuela5
The Ethiopia–Eritrea rapprochement: highly personalised and less-institutionalised initiative5
A dialogical appraisal of diasporic women’s work to impact change in Iran5
Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia5
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity5
Hiroshima in Egypt: interpretations and imaginations of the atomic age5
International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters5
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar5
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices5
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation5
The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan5
The role of civil servants in the dignification of victims in Meta, Colombia5
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town5
The developmental state and its discontent: the evolution of the open government data policy in Taiwan5
South–South cooperation: building productive bridges between Latin America and Africa5
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy5
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda5
Truth processes and decolonial transformation: a comparative view of Guatemala, Peru, Chile and Colombia5
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery5
From ghost projects to grassroots future: the Gwadar Haq Do Tehreek and reclamation of failed development in Gwadar, Balochistan5
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations5
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model5
Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa5
Do regional powers prioritise their regions? Comparing Brazil, South Africa and Turkey5
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil5
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction5
The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso5
White supremacy and the racial logic of the global preventing and countering violent extremism agenda5
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab5
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria5
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria4
Is Africa China’s neo-dependency in the making?4
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies4
(Un)familiar familialism: the recent shift in family politics in Iran4
China as a ‘rising power’: why the status quo matters4
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept4
Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa: structures, strategies and emerging patterns4
Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P4
The onset of BRICS cooperation on climate change: material change, ideational convergence and the road to Copenhagen 20094
Women’s dialogic encounters: agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts4
The ‘competitive authoritarian’ turn in Turkey: bandwagoning versus reality4
Recentring industrial policy paradigm within IPE and development studies4
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges4
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq4
Coloniality and the Global North war against disinformation: the case of the European Union4
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description: revisiting the national identity formation process4
When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law4
The hostile side of the state: Siracusa Principles, human rights and the precarity of COVID-19 policing in Nigeria4
African Ubuntu and Sustainable Development Goals: seeking human mutual relations and service in development4
Reclaiming partnership – ‘rightful resistance’ in a Norths/Souths cooperation4
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa4
The role of the Sustainable Development Goals for digital development professionals: lessons for the post-2030 development goals4
Emancipatory movements in Latin America: challenges and impetus arising from the historical formation of the region4
Chinese financing in Ethiopia’s infrastructure sector: agency distribution within and outside the state4
New extractivism and failed development in Azerbaijan4
Contemporary fellow travellers: Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists and the theory and political practice of Marxism4
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security4
Different times, same story: the (un)changing dynamics of structural dependence in Tanzania4
Traversing the intersections of decoloniality and liquid modern consumerism in human trafficking4
Agonistic reconciliation: inclusion, decolonisation and the need for radical innovation4
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square4
‘They count us among the dead’: ageing women’s experiences of intergenerational conflict in a changing rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa4
A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia4
Feminist intersectional activism in the Colombian Truth Commission: constructing counter-hegemonic narratives of the armed conflict in the Colombian Caribbean4
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations4
The politics of rhetoric: examining popular discourse in Jammu and Kashmir4
The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actors3
Wartime protected area governance: the case of Colombia’s Alto Fragua Indiwasi National Park3
Voices from the periphery: a critique of postcolonial theories and development practice3
Joining a migrant caravan: herd behaviour and structural factors3
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens3
The Global South and global human rights: international responsibility for the right to development3
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia3
(Ir)relevant doctrines and African realities: neoliberal and Marxist influences on labour migration governance in Southern Africa3
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category3
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era3
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation?3
Response to Martin Fredriksson, ‘Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library’3
Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia3
‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan3
The ghost of Hernán Cortés: the colonial heritage in the Americas in the Cold War and post-Cold War era3
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War3
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes3
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival3
Beyond neo-imperialist intentionality: explaining African agency in liberal peace interventions3
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka3
The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies3
Promoting Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience in Palestine–Israel: normalising the status quo3
Hard borders and soft agreements: evaluating governance within the Global Compact for Migration3
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies3
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan3
Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses3
‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration3
From colonial subjects to post-colonial citizens? Considerations for a contemporary study of Black México3
The Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme and the EU’s normative dilemma: the case of Myanmar’s garment sector3
Election, ethnic voting and regime change in The Gambia3
Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach3
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes3
Correction3
Towards a more inclusive diaspora policy orientation in Africa3
Counterinsurgency against queers in Turkey3
Revisiting the moderation controversy with space and class: the Tunisian Ennahda3
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil3
Memory and the social meanings of famine3
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory3
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America3
Examining the ‘developmentalisation’ of humanitarian response: the politics of migration and development in Tunisia3
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria3
Constructing the future: solidarity action in Nicaragua3
Dispossession and the militarised developer state: financialisation and class power on the agrarian–urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan3
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world3
Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey3
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’3
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts3
Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South3
Statement of Removal3
Whose and what aid securitisation? An analysis of EU aid narratives and flows3
How internationally funded NGOs promote gender equality in horticulture value chains in Kenya3
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation3
Understanding Syrian refugees in Turkey from an environment of insecurity and the conflict model of migration perspective3
When do civilians resist military coup attempts?2
Navigating design and innovation hegemonies in Chilean crafts2
Healing an abnormalised body: bringing the agency of unseen people back to the inter-Korean border2
‘Must Fall’ movements globally: transnational flows of South African student activism2
Doing business under the framework of disorder: illiberal legalism in Indonesia2
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel2
Continuity and change in Saudi Arabia’s development and humanitarian aid2
High in the sky: Turkish–Argentine South–South space cooperation2
Latin American structure and Pan-Am Games: analysing the medal table from International Relations2
Land appropriation, customary tenure and rural livelihoods: gold mining in Ghana2
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence2
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators2
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study2
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study2
Gulf responses to Syrian refugee arrivals in Lebanon: narratives of legitimisation2
Expertise at the intersection of technicality and ambiguity: international governance of gender and development2
Coloniality of power and social control strategies in mining: an analysis of MAM activists’ narratives2
Diffusion of digital authoritarianism? Censorship, surveillance and beyond in Türkiye2
Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids2
Pride and the politics of international defiance: Brazil, the United States, and UN General Assembly Resolution 33792
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America2
Resistance under confinement: resilience of protests and their limits in authoritarian Turkey2
Colonial capitalism, boundary demarcation and imperial placemaking in South Arabia2
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