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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transforming global critical minerals governance: is a green new international economic order possible?47
‘Don’t cause trouble’: speculative governance, ward administration and fragmented sovereignty in urban Myanmar41
The visual politics of polyalignment in Argentina: lithium extraction in the geopolitics of clean-energy transitions39
Gender and urban poverty in India31
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict31
The evolving multilateral defence diplomacy in the Caribbean region: prospects and challenges29
Extractivism as a constitutional bind: a material analysis28
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean26
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)25
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)25
Adaptive political economy of the Egyptian small and medium enterprises (SMEs)24
Pluriversality as methodology23
The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis22
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia21
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War21
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination21
Microfinance as post-conflict women’s economic development: issues in adopting a smart economic strategy19
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina19
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South19
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers18
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries18
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity17
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria17
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland17
Security assistance to Africa: new Cold War or new public goods?16
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil15
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square15
Ghost airports: the boom and bust of large infrastructure projects15
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices15
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation15
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War15
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia15
Paradox of plenty in Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 policy implementation: implications for effective policy execution14
Cooperation or risk? Rethinking the Belt and Road Initiative and the geopolitical dynamics of the Western Balkans14
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations13
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges13
The truth behind tariff threats: unpacking the economic and strategic fallout of the 2025 US–India dispute13
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria13
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model13
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective12
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes12
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery12
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?12
What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide12
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes12
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry12
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis12
Structural exploitation in the Colombian Amazon: a materialist study of forest carbon offsets12
Insurgency and national security: a perspective from Cameroon’s separatist conflict11
Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood: governing street vendors in Kolkata11
Resilience by design: emergency architecture, testing and the ecology of aid (1970–1980)11
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?11
The geopolitics of reporting a genocide: an analysis of the coverage of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in Foreign Affairs and the Ne11
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians11
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study11
Perceptions of China in the Middle East and North Africa: an analysis in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza11
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators11
Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency11
The evolution of the national discourse on Chinese mining in Ecuador10
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi10
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus10
Who decides how women travel? Gender, authority and transportation in Hyderabad, India10
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study10
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets the state: a post-pandemic compromise10
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice10
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine10
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis9
Re-indigenising feminism: gender, genocide and Gaza9
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’9
Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water9
The defence of wealth in fragile democracies and authoritarian regimes: lessons from El Salvador9
From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana9
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena9
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin9
Fixed attitudes, contextual shifts: deconstructing public support for Lebanese Hezbollah through survey experiments9
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism9
The everyday lives of drugs9
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system9
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya9
‘Authentic’ multilateralism and the stigmatisation of ‘small circles’: China, India, and the contestation over institutional design9
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans8
Dependent development in the twenty-first century8
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey8
Hierarchy, hypocrisy and accountability in the Inter-American Development Bank8
Spanish official development assistance to Colombia from 2007 to 20238
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry8
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines8
Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala8
Step up, step down, step out: the gendering of community health work in pastoralist Kenya8
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
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing8
A digital cold war in Africa? Capitalist multiplicity, digital transformation, and shifting dependencies amid US–China tech rivalry8
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge8
From Turtle Island to Palestine: settler-colonial Canada, genocide, and Indigenous foreign policy8
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law8
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?8
Agency, extractivism, and development: the case of the Lobito Corridor8
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations8
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana8
The pressure of waste: technopolitical crisis, ecological imaginaries and toilet redesign in South Africa8
Global care chains: everyday infrastructures of extractive constitutionalism8
The Russia–Ukraine war: understanding the Global South’s vote at the UN and its implications for the current world order7
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan7
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
Gold as something to be proud of? Contradictions of ethical consumerism in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America7
Procedural (in)justice: unpacking the role of humanitarian aid targeting in shaping host–refugee relations in Lebanon7
Colonial scripts: how Western political discourse facilitates the erasure of Palestinian humanity7
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh7
Democracy, oligarchy and institutionalised violence: the Colombian experience7
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations7
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy7
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar7
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?7
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?7
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?7
The diffusion of the concept of ‘the Global South’ in the press: the case of Africa7
Locating Africa in the Second Cold War: the geopolitical economy of Kenyan polyalignment7
A double crisis: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Syrian refugee women in Jordan7
Against the charge of charity: refugee-led organisations, localisation and decolonising humanitarianism6
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design6
Proxy wars in a multipolar world: mechanisms of strategic influence and power reconfiguration6
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia6
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction6
Ghost projects and the ambiguity of infrastructure development6
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival6
NGOs and the sociocultural adaptation of refugees: exploring challenges and impact6
Planned misery in paradise: a justice-centered analysis of the socio-legal exploitation of Puerto Rico6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’6
Correction6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia6
Sensing, tracing, walking: phenomenological investigations of ruins and afterlives of projects6
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security6
Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies6
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil6
Exploring coloniality of knowledge in Pakistani public policy6
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey6
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa6
Statement of Removal6
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation6
Repressive connectivity and digital resistance: internet shutdowns, speech and networked counterpublics in Manipur6
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach5
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil5
Diplomats in uniform – the evolution of Rwanda’s foreign policy and how it became indispensable within a decade5
Correction5
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence5
African coups and the limits of electoralism5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America5
China and South America in the Antarctic: divergent motivations and diplomatic alignment5
‘Our existence is the resistance’: features of Mapuche slow resistance5
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza5
Co-opting rights, reframing development: anti-gender politics and the logics of smart economics5
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image5
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia5
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen5
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’5
Presidents and diplomacy: ideology’s impact on Brazil’s international forest engagement5
Banking without governance: the paradox of financial performance under institutional collapse in Haiti5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering5
Variations in right-wing populism: a comparative study of Türkiye and Brazil5
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia5
Rural mobilities, gendered youth transitions and delineations of a transient citizenship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia5
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine5
Fragmented multilateralism and international institutions: between complexities and challenges5
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1965
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging5
The (In)Visibility of Equality: A Critique of Islamic-Legal Feminism discourse in Iran5
Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects5
Gendered extraction in Sudan: how extractive economic activities exacerbate conflict in an era of great power competition4
When wage work fails: survival entrepreneurship and the reordering of construction labour in Indonesia4
Performing a paper park – visions, controversies and side-effects of a transboundary conservation megaproject4
From misogyny to security: women and the state in Iran4
Politics, pattern and processes of pseudonym of decolonisation: knowledge production and language fragility in China–Nigeria relations4
Forging alliances: political competition and industrial policy in democratic Brazil4
The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s4
Feminicides in Peru and Colombia: the role of legal and illegal capitalist relations4
Dancing in-between : interstitial feminist defiance in Iran’s public and digital spaces4
Architecture, diplomacy and soft power: Israel and Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria4
Walking the talk: autoethnographic reflections on co-creating regenerative education within international development studies4
Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India4
A history of ananyamukuta – Shona midwives: identity, roles and development in Zimbabwe, 1880s to 1970s4
Weaving an alternative partnership: a collaborative autoethnography on ‘failing’ to research epistemic freedom4
More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi4
Mobilising care: an analysis of care and mobility policies in Bogotá and Belo Horizonte4
Why not help a Muslim brother? A poststructuralist analysis of the Welfare ( Refah ) Party’s stance on the Somali intervention in the 1990s4
Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi4
Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans4
Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid4
Strategic legitimacy in global aid governance: Saudi Arabia and the UAE4
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa4
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond4
1,000,000 jobs abroad: balancing numbers and rights in Kenya’s labour migration programme4
Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies4
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico4
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union4
Fixing China’s humanitarian aid architecture: what are the lessons from the European Union and the United States?4
Productive vs. reproductive work: rethinking the relationship4
Labour Migration and Policy Negotiations: the 1976 Tunisia-EEC Cooperation Agreement and its Impact4
Incorporation and neutralisation: how the Moroccan monarchy co-opts opposition from leftists to Islamists4
The connection between particularly vulnerable tribal groups and nature in the protected areas of Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh4
The September revolution: Gen Z mobilisation and cascading failures of platform governance, policing and state credibility in Nepal4
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards4
A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures4
Rhetorical strategies and electoral legitimacy in foreign policymaking within competitive authoritarianism: Turkish policy towards Egypt4
‘The tears don’t give you funding’: data neocolonialism in development in the Global South4
On migrants, violence and the contours of colonised knowledge4
Resurrecting a presumed ghost: the challenges and revival of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania in a changing political landscape4
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals4
Correction4
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance4
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