Third World Quarterly

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict126
Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey53
Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination37
Totallynapse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia35
The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis33
Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)26
Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina24
Political economy of South–South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean21
Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers20
The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa20
Beyond the coloniser’s model of the world: towards reworlding from the Global South20
Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)19
Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War18
The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery18
Gender and urban poverty in India18
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War16
The failure of (neo-)extractivism in Latin America – explanations and future challenges16
All geopolitics is local: the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor amidst overlapping centre–periphery relations16
The politics around safe zones: a comparative perspective on return to Northern Syria15
When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil15
Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia15
Security assistance to Africa: new Cold War or new public goods?15
Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation15
Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria15
‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy15
Complementary institutions of industrial policy: a quasi-market role of government inspired by the evolutionary China Model14
Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town14
‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square14
Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees14
Intersections between the global economy and gender structures in the workforce in relocated industries14
Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq14
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity14
Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland13
Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices13
Paradox of plenty in Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 policy implementation: implications for effective policy execution13
‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda13
Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery12
Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study12
Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective12
Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?12
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians11
A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era11
Manufacturing consent in Africa? Multinationals, NGOs and the (re)invention of resistance in the Niger Delta’s oilscapes11
Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes11
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 conflict10
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
A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry10
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis10
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: the symbolic power of law in practice10
The Western imperial order on display in Gaza: Palestine as an ideological fault line in the international arena10
Untold story of the expanding armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest: linking the communal-level collaborators10
Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis10
From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana10
Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine9
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus9
The everyday lives of drugs9
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library9
Dependent development in the twenty-first century9
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin9
Deadly global alliance: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism9
Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs9
Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study9
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’9
Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing9
Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya9
A sensitivity to sensitisation: a case study of participatory approaches within government-mandated climate resettlement in Malawi9
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system9
‘Authentic’ multilateralism and the stigmatisation of ‘small circles’: China, India, and the contestation over institutional design9
‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry9
Norm-busting: rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies9
Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey8
The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years8
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
Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law8
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: an exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines8
Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey8
Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo8
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans8
Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh8
Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines8
The pressure of waste: technopolitical crisis, ecological imaginaries and toilet redesign in South Africa8
Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana8
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge8
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul8
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media: deconstructing Eurocentrism?8
Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations7
Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism?7
Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab7
Comments on authoritarianism: YouTube-mediated feelings of young citizens in Turkey7
Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival7
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
The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations7
G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers?7
Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism7
Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security7
The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso7
Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar7
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia7
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
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar7
Gold as something to be proud of? Contradictions of ethical consumerism in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America7
Correction7
Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation7
Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma7
The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy7
‘Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector7
Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan7
Why is Cuba’s economic reform progressing so slowly?7
Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia6
Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory6
Against the charge of charity: refugee-led organisations, localisation and decolonising humanitarianism6
Memory and justice after famines: an introduction6
Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen6
Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts6
Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’6
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept6
Issues of gender in sport leadership: reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa6
Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia6
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design6
Statement of Removal6
Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America6
Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza6
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan6
Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil6
Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies6
The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka6
NGOs and the sociocultural adaptation of refugees: exploring challenges and impact6
Correction6
From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1966
Under the leadership of our president: ‘Potemkin AI’ and the Turkish approach to artificial intelligence6
A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace5
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging5
Constructing a Vishwaguru (world teacher): Hindu nationalism, populism and the domestic consumption of Narendra Modi’s global image5
Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe5
Revisiting antisystemic movements in the Global South: struggles against exclusion and struggles against exploitation5
Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects5
Walking the talk: autoethnographic reflections on co-creating regenerative education within international development studies5
A history of ananyamukuta – Shona midwives: identity, roles and development in Zimbabwe, 1880s to 1970s5
Refugee recognition in Brazil under Bolsonaro: the domestic impact of international norms and standards5
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa5
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work5
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America5
Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict5
The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine5
Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation5
Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach5
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union5
Resurrecting a presumed ghost: the challenges and revival of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania in a changing political landscape5
The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion?5
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico5
The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering5
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond5
Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia5
The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia5
Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia5
Variations in right-wing populism: a comparative study of Türkiye and Brazil5
¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia5
The evangelical foreign policy model: Jair Bolsonaro and evangelicals in Brazil5
‘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
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance5
Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies5
Perspectives on violent extremism from development–humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia5
Gender mainstreaming 2.0: emergent gender equality agendas under Sustainable Development Goals5
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