Third World Quarterly

1998 - 2025

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Volume 46, issue 3, 2025

Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination pp. 277-295

Babalola Joseph Balogun and Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan pp. 296-315

Debbie Samaniego

The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging pp. 316-334

Arshid Iqbal Dar

Pride and the politics of international defiance: Brazil, the United States, and UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 pp. 335-352

John de Bhal

Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation pp. 353-371

Rabia Nadir, Kamal Munir and Shafqat Hussain

International higher education as a soft power tool of Turkish foreign policy: the case of Azerbaijan pp. 372-390

Ayça Ergun, Yasar Kondakci, Merve Zayim-Kurtay and Anar Valiyev

Volume 46, issue 2, 2025

Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition pp. 97-116

Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu and Kerem Öktem

Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations pp. 117-135

Erol Saglam

Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa pp. 136-152

Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner

The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy pp. 153-169

Marcus Mietzner

Resistance under confinement: resilience of protests and their limits in authoritarian Turkey pp. 170-192

Mert Arslanalp and T. Deniz Erkmen

Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans pp. 193-214

Lura Pollozhani and Florian Bieber

Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil pp. 215-236

Guilherme Casarões, Déborah Silva do Monte and Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez

Formal yet ineffective opposition coordination under competitive authoritarianism: Nation Alliance in Turkey pp. 237-257

Hakan Yavuzyılmaz and Berk Esen

The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey pp. 258-275

Seren Selvin Korkmaz

Volume 46, issue 1, 2025

Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America pp. 1-19

Saul M. Rodriguez

When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil pp. 20-37

Felipe Estre

The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years pp. 38-58

Monika Sawicka

A decolonial approach to Brazilian environmental policy since 1972 pp. 59-78

Rodrigo Machado Vilani, Carlos José Saldanha Machado, Vicente Paulo dos Santos Pinto, Maria Amália Silva Alves de Oliveira and Daniel Fonseca de Andrade

Towards a more inclusive diaspora policy orientation in Africa pp. 79-96

Senayon Olaoluwa

Volume 45, issue 17-18, 2024

Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond pp. 2323-2333

Abel Polese and Joseph P. Helou

Informality and survival in times of crises: the role of the Quadripartite security committee in wartime Beirut pp. 2334-2350

Dana Abi Ghanem

Crises, labour market and informality in Brazil: the Covid-19 shock in the light of past dynamics pp. 2351-2372

Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud and Alexis Saludjian

‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry pp. 2373-2390

Claudia Eggart

Migrants in the throes of multiple crises: fragmented state authority, informal networks and forced (im)mobilities in Libya pp. 2391-2409

Eyene Okpanachi and Christian Kaunert

Speculating about the migration crisis: acting from above and below on the Canary Islands route pp. 2410-2429

Ignacio Fradejas-García and Kristín Loftsdóttir

Informality and insecurity in the Sahel: unravelling the hybrid political orders of Northern Mali and Northern Niger pp. 2430-2447

Alessio Iocchi and Edoardo Baldaro

There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: the solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon’s multi-dimensional crisis since 2020 pp. 2448-2468

Joseph P. Helou and Abel Polese

Volume 45, issue 15-16, 2024

Foreign aid of Gulf States: continuity and change pp. 2145-2154

Mohammad Yaghi, Hanaa Almoaibed and Silvia Colombo

9/11 and branding the Gulf States’ foreign aid pp. 2155-2174

Mohammad Yaghi

The changing role of Gulf-based non-state actors in foreign aid pp. 2175-2189

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

The politics of Gulf foreign aid: from survival and solidarity to political and military influence pp. 2190-2207

Khaled Almezaini

Continuity and change in Saudi Arabia’s development and humanitarian aid pp. 2208-2227

Narayani Sritharan, Ammar A. Malik and Asad Sami

Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study pp. 2228-2245

Javier Bordón and Eyad Alrefai

The evolution of the Gulf states as humanitarian donors pp. 2246-2265

Ghassan Elkahlout and Sansom Milton

Exploring the preference for bilateral aid: Gulf oil states’ aid to Yemen pp. 2266-2286

Moosa Elayah and Hasan Al-Awami

Gulf responses to Syrian refugee arrivals in Lebanon: narratives of legitimisation pp. 2287-2304

Clothilde Facon

Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid pp. 2305-2322

Altea Pericoli

Volume 45, issue 14, 2024

Understanding climate security in the Indo-Pacific pp. 2039-2046

Mely Caballero-Anthony and Alistair D. B. Cook

Climate security in Southeast Asia: navigating concepts, approaches and practices pp. 2047-2064

Mely Caballero-Anthony

Climate change in the Asia-Pacific security architecture – the case of ASEAN pp. 2065-2087

Alistair D. B. Cook

Cascading risks in a social-ecological system: the South China Sea disputes pp. 2088-2107

Maria Ortuoste

Shifting discourses of climate security in India: domestic and international dimensions pp. 2108-2126

Dhanasree Jayaram

Climate security and Japan’s new national security strategy: a policy analysis pp. 2127-2144

Hideshi Tokuchi

Volume 45, issue 13, 2024

Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids pp. 1929-1946

Bilal Hamamra, Rebecca Ruth Gould and Asala Mayaleh

From misogyny to security: women and the state in Iran pp. 1947-1962

Mehran Kamrava

Iran’s axis of resistance through the lens of ontological security pp. 1963-1980

Murat Cingöz, Fulya Özkan, Yavuz Selim Alkan and Ramazan İzol

Class grievances before and after the Arab uprisings pp. 1981-2000

Jennifer C. Olmsted and Bassam Yousif

Theorising universality in the modern world-system: the abstract, the concrete, and the case of Botswana pp. 2001-2018

Jason C. Mueller

Conflict between Fulani herders and village landowners in Ghana: capitalism, climate change, and peasant struggles pp. 2019-2037

Surulola Eke

Volume 45, issue 12, 2024

Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects pp. 1813-1831

Ghassan Elkahlout and Mona Hedaya

Rhetorical frames: a strategy of governmental power in international negotiations pp. 1832-1855

Tana Johnson and Margaret J. Foster

Norm shaper, norm implementer, or norm antipreneur? Assessing Turkish foreign policy towards R2P pp. 1856-1875

Nilay Tüzgen and Gonca Oğuz Gök

Lula, the people’s guy: populism, liberal democracy and voting in Brazil pp. 1876-1892

Luminiţa-Anda Mandache

Migrants’ entangled socio-political and biological lives during the COVID-19 emergency in Brazil pp. 1893-1911

Flávia Rodrigues de Castro, Gisela P. Zapata and Marcia Vera Espinoza

Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar pp. 1912-1927

Stephen Campbell and Ko Maung

Volume 45, issue 11, 2024

White supremacy and the racial logic of the global preventing and countering violent extremism agenda pp. 1701-1718

Elizabeth Mesok, Nora Naji and Darja Schildknecht

Debunking the myth of Brazilian subimperialism during Lula and Dilma’s governments pp. 1719-1737

Tiago Soares Nogara

Decolonisation agriculture: challenging colonisation through the reconstruction of agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava) pp. 1738-1757

Necmettin Türk and Joost Jongerden

Transition meets instability: Chad after Idriss Déby Itno pp. 1758-1776

Darrin Patrick McDonald

How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept pp. 1777-1792

Mathias Larsen

Southern agency in global norms creation: Bangladesh in the SDGs formulation process pp. 1793-1812

ASM Ali Ashraf and Syeda Rozana Rashid

Volume 45, issue 10, 2024

Theorising uprisings: Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen pp. 1573-1588

Zahra Ali

Deleuze & Guattari on protest weakness in Iraq pp. 1589-1607

Benedict Robin-D’Cruz

Politicians, officers and political transition: the case of post 2003 Iraq pp. 1608-1626

Maria Luisa Fantappie

Locating the local police in Iraq’s security arena: community policing, the ‘three Ps’ and trust in Ninawa Province pp. 1627-1645

Jessica Watkins, Abdulkareem al-Jerba and Mahdi al-Delaimi

‘We want a country’: the urban politics of the October Revolution in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square pp. 1646-1662

Taif Alkhudary

Diffusion of digital authoritarianism? Censorship, surveillance and beyond in Türkiye pp. 1663-1681

Mesut Aslan and Gözde Yilmaz

Who’s responsible for intellectual displacement? Objective representations of exiled professionals in Canada pp. 1682-1700

Camelia Tigau

Volume 45, issue 9, 2024

Sanitation is political: understanding stakeholders’ incentives in funding sanitation for the Gaza Strip, Palestine pp. 1437-1457

Mariam Zaqout, Mariam Fayad, Dani J. Barrington, Anna Mdee and Barbara E. Evans

Standing tall like Caesar? Qatar’s unwavering voice for Palestine at the United Nations pp. 1458-1475

Bülent Aras and Majed Al Ansari

Floating people, changing climate: a migrant-sensitive approach to climate adaptation and mobilities in the Bengal Delta pp. 1476-1496

Tanaya Dutta Gupta and Danielle Falzon

The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia pp. 1497-1516

Clara Voyvodic

Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-19 pp. 1517-1535

Yeshe Smith, Aidan Craney and Chris Roche

The hostile side of the state: Siracusa Principles, human rights and the precarity of COVID-19 policing in Nigeria pp. 1536-1553

Ali Oladimeji Shodunke

The Alevis and Roma/Gypsy in Turkey: republican freedom revisited pp. 1554-1571

Burak Tamaç, Ogan Yumlu and Cemil Boyraz

Volume 45, issue 8, 2024

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Bad adopters or bad proponents of technology? Facebook and the violence against Muslims in Myanmar pp. 1309-1324

Aleksandar Deejay, Tamas Wells, Kathryn Henne and Stefan Bächtold

Dependency theory meets feminist economics: a research agenda pp. 1325-1342

Belén Villegas Plá

A dialogical appraisal of diasporic women’s work to impact change in Iran pp. 1343-1361

Rebecca Barlow, Shahram Akbarzadeh and Sanaz Nasirpour

Unravelling the interlinkages: agency and vulnerability of hazardous child labour in Bangladesh pp. 1362-1381

Mohammed Abdul Baten, Shafiqul Alam and Golam Mostofa

Labour segmentation in NCR Delhi’s automobile sector: a political response of capital to labour struggles pp. 1382-1397

Shreya Ghosh and Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

Deeply divided along aid lines? Chinese loans, Cameroon and Anglophone marginalisation pp. 1398-1417

Afa’anwi Ma’abo Che and Makolo Joseph Njie

Unpacking the impact of mega-regional agreements: the EU–Mercosur case pp. 1418-1435

Ana Paula Tostes and Marianna Albuquerque

Volume 45, issue 7, 2024

COVID-19 and the racialisation of Chinese wildlife consumption pp. 1177-1198

Hairong Yan and Barry Sautman

The gendered politics of Iran-U.S. relations: sanctions, the JCPOA and women’s security pp. 1199-1218

Valentine M. Moghadam

Who owns the land? Socio-cultural and economic drivers of unequal agrarian land ownership in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh pp. 1219-1237

Saleh Ahmed and Elizabeth Marie Eklund

Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance pp. 1238-1255

Tobias Tseer, Kasim Salifu and Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh

Prison reform in conflict-affected contexts: evidence from Somaliland and Puntland pp. 1256-1272

Lina Grip and Jenniina Kotajoki

Broadening the concept of interregionalism: beyond state-centrism and Eurocentrism pp. 1273-1290

Andréas Litsegård and Frank Mattheis

Dislodging the hegemony of the white epistemological frame pp. 1291-1308

Thapelo Tselapedi

Volume 45, issue 6, 2024

Political healing in East Asian international relations: what, why and how pp. 1019-1034

Ching-Chang Chen, Astrid H. M. Nordin and Peter Karl Mayer

Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: a critical engagement with contemporary international relations pp. 1035-1050

Kosuke Shimizu and Sei Noro

Discourse, medical metaphor and the East Asian medicine approach to conflict resolution pp. 1051-1069

Chin-Kuei Tsui

Healing an abnormalised body: bringing the agency of unseen people back to the inter-Korean border pp. 1070-1087

Jooyoun Lee

Conflict as imbalance: political healing of and through emotions in Korea pp. 1088-1105

Andrei Yamamoto

Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description: revisiting the national identity formation process pp. 1106-1121

Jungmin Seo

Embodying the state differently in a Westphalian world: an ontological exit for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute pp. 1122-1140

Nina C. Krickel-Choi, Ching-Chang Chen and Alexander Bukh

Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin–yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations pp. 1141-1158

Boyu Chen and Ching-Chang Chen

Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective pp. 1159-1176

Wan-Ping Lin

Volume 45, issue 5, 2024

Interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered violence and resistance in Latin America pp. 827-833

Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Sanne Weber

Feminist intersectional activism in the Colombian Truth Commission: constructing counter-hegemonic narratives of the armed conflict in the Colombian Caribbean pp. 834-852

Juliana González Villamizar

Embodied healing and justice in wounded territories: reflections from feminist and decolonial research-activism in Guatemala pp. 853-869

Aisling Walsh

Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict pp. 870-887

Kiran Stallone

Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico pp. 888-902

Alejandra Díaz de León

Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War pp. 903-925

Samuel Ritholtz

From financial inclusion to financial health of refugees: urging for a shift in perspective pp. 926-945

Swati Mehta Dhawan, Kim Wilson and Hans-Martin Zademach

Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi pp. 946-962

Martin Webb, Aasim Khan, Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Riad Azam and Farhat Salim

Broadening perspectives on inclusive peacemaking: the case of the UN mediation in Syria pp. 963-980

Sara Hellmüller

Forging alliances: political competition and industrial policy in democratic Brazil pp. 981-1002

Renato H. de Gaspi

The role of the Sustainable Development Goals for digital development professionals: lessons for the post-2030 development goals pp. 1003-1018

Franz-Ferdinand Rothe

Volume 45, issue 4, 2024

Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South pp. 607-623

Trent Brown and Geert De Neve

Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan pp. 624-639

Geoffrey Gowlland

Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil pp. 640-657

Liliana Gil

Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India pp. 658-676

Advaita Rajendra

Skills to stay: social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka pp. 677-697

Soundarya Iyer and Nitya Rao

Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul pp. 698-714

Banu Şenay and Faik Gür

Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India pp. 715-733

Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve

Hāth se sīkhna: geographies of practical learning and India’s agricultural skills agenda pp. 734-752

Trent Brown

Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India pp. 753-770

Carol Upadhya and Supriya RoyChowdhury

Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers pp. 771-789

Arnaud Kaba

Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy pp. 790-809

Aditya Ray

More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi pp. 810-826

Abhishek Ranjan Datta

Volume 45, issue 3, 2024

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey pp. 445-457

Huseyin Zengin

The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka pp. 458-474

Karen Brounéus, Erika Forsberg, Kristine Höglund and Kate Lonergan

Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory pp. 475-492

Selver B. Sahin and Stepan Verkhovets

Development and national security: Indonesia’s Natuna Island and the South China Sea issue pp. 493-512

Yani Yang and Yizheng Zou

Theory importation and the death of homegrown disciplinary potential: an autopsy of Turkish IR pp. 513-530

Ersel Aydinli

A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era pp. 531-547

Fariborz Arghavani Pirsalami, Arash Moradi and Hosein Alipour

Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach pp. 548-566

Jess Marinaccio

Power and networks in the shaping of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) pp. 567-588

Stefan Vicedom and Rachel Wynberg

Environmental pollution, variegated violence: the fizzling bond of Delta State diaspora from their homeland pp. 589-605

Henrietta Omo Oshokunofa

Volume 45, issue 2, 2024

Memory and justice after famines: an introduction pp. 247-258

Camilla Orjuela and Swati Parashar

Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialisation pp. 259-276

Camilla Orjuela

The lyrics of hunger: Cabo Verdean music as a space for organic remembering pp. 277-293

Lisa Åkesson and Alícia Borges Månsson

Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis pp. 294-313

David Mwambari

Hunger as a weapon of war: Biafra, social media and the politics of famine remembrance pp. 314-331

Obinna Chukwunenye Nweke

The concentration camps for famine victims in Brazil and the struggle for their public memorialisation pp. 332-349

Thiago Lima

Imperial wars and the violence of hunger: remembering and forgetting the Great Persian Famine 1917–1919 pp. 350-366

Zahra Edalati and Majid Imani

Negotiating caste-subaltern imaginations of the 1943 Bengal famine: methodological underpinnings of a creative-collaborative practice pp. 367-384

Ram Krishna Ranjan

Challenges in the pursuit of justice for East Timor’s Great Famine (1977–1979) pp. 385-402

Vannessa Hearman

Finding the ‘other’ from within: how the CCP survived the legitimacy crisis after China’s Great Leap Famine pp. 403-419

Jingyang Rui

Ethiopia’s 1984/85 famine and the Red Terror Trials pp. 420-438

Fisseha Fantahun Tefera

Memory and the social meanings of famine pp. 439-443

Alex de Waal

Volume 45, issue 1, 2024

Legacies and futures for Global South research pp. 1-5

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Shahram Akbarzadeh, Morten Bøås, Matt Davies, Jing Gu, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, Marianne H. Marchand, Sam Okoth Opondo, Heloise Weber and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Qatar’s approach across the Triple Nexus in conflict-affected contexts: the case of Darfur pp. 6-23

Wadee Alarabeed

The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine pp. 24-42

Jeffrey S. Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz

Beyond ‘networked individuals’: social-media and citizen-led accountability in political protests pp. 43-60

Obert Hodzi and Özge Zihnioğlu

Stopping Firestone and starting a citizen ‘revolution from below’: reflections on the enduring exploitation of Liberian land and labour pp. 61-78

Robtel Neajai Pailey

The continuity of Othering in feminist methodology: activist-scholar and the insider/outsider dynamics pp. 79-94

Afaf Jabiri

Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority pp. 95-112

Yahya Sseremba

Between cooperation and conflict: tracing the variance in relations of traditional governance institutions and the state in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 113-132

Florian G. Kern, Katharina Holzinger and Daniela Kromrey

Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana pp. 133-150

Joanne Tomkinson

China reshaping green value chain initiatives: between global and Southern standards pp. 151-170

Flavia Fabiano and Benoit Daviron

Legitimacy-seeking: China’s statements and actions on combating climate change pp. 171-188

Chenchao Lian and Jinhong Li

Revisiting neoliberalism and new developmentalism: lessons from Turkey and Argentina pp. 189-207

Sumercan Bozkurt Gungen

Truth processes and decolonial transformation: a comparative view of Guatemala, Peru, Chile and Colombia pp. 208-228

Carola Ramos-Cortez and Timothy MacNeill

COVID-19 and aid distribution in the Philippines: a patron-clientelist explanation pp. 229-246

Pauline Eadie and Chester Yacub