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TWQ journal publishes leading research in international studies, examining issues, policy & development discourses that affect the Global South.
Has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) fully embraced climate action? Read the full article:
Macro-critical but market-centric: the IMF’s half-turn on climate
This article examines the evolving climate policy stance of the International Monetary Fund (hereafter the IMF or the Fund), highlighting an evolution towards greater acceptance of climate policy, ...
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Now online: the full video from Third World Quarterly special issue launch🌍 🎥 Watch :
Full Video: Ghost Projects and Infrastructure Development - Third World Quarterly Special Issue Launch - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
Guest-edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn, Eric Kioko and Theo Aalders from our sub-project C03 “Green Futures”, this special issue of Third World Quarterly was
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What does digital sovereignty mean when AI infrastructure, expertise and standards remain controlled elsewhere? Read:
Reimagining sovereignty in the Global South: digital dependency, AI and cybersecurity
Much of how cybersecurity is implemented and regulated today is now shaped by new developments in artificial intelligence (AI). International standards and donor benchmarks demand AI-related risk m...
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Event in Leeds on July 27th with Ivanir dos Santos : Race, Religion and Resistance in Brazil Sign up: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... @slaslatam.bsky.social @mariekeriethof.bsky.social
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📢 Call for Research Notes | Third World Quarterly Submissions should be in the form of Research Notes. 📅 Abstract deadline: 23 August 2026. 🔗 Find out more: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/what-remains-the-afterlives-of-conflict-fieldwork/ #CallForPapers
What would it mean to treat pluriversality not only as a theoretical concept, but as a methodology? Read the Research Note:
Pluriversality as methodology
This reflection highlights three key political, ethical, and methodological contributions of pluriversality that demand attention. First, pluriversality as methodology or cosmopraxis is not just ab...
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📖 A new article in Third World Quarterly by Natalia Torres Zúñiga explores how law shapes agrarian extractivism in Colombia through the concepts of wasteland, property, and improvement. 📚 Read the article here:
Law and agrarian extractivism in Colombia: property, public wasteland and improvement
This article examines the relationship between law and agrarian extractivism in Colombia by analysing the 2016 legislation that created the country’s ‘zones of interest for rural, economic, and soc...
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⚖️ 17 July, World Day for International Justice. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0143... 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0143... 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0143... 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0143... #InternationalJusticeDay #ThirdWorldQuarterly #GlobalSouth
Sudan’s forgotten war and exploitation: reasserting the legal obligations of parties to prevent trafficking and slavery during armed conflicts
Relative to other global conflicts, the ongoing war in Sudan has exemplified a paradigmatic forgotten war, despite its varying ramifications for victims and the wider civilian population. In many w...
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🚨New Article🚨 Kodili Henry Chukwuma's new paper in @thirdworldq.bsky.social conceptualises terrorism trials as opaque shows, highlighting the ambivalent reproduction of law and order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Opaque trials: prosecuting terrorist suspects in Nigeria
This article examines the prosecution of Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria through an analysis of official reports and court documents from the so-called Kainji trials. Moving beyond dominant narrativ...
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TWQ is recruiting a Coordinating Lead Editor | Third World Quarterly. ➡️ Read more and apply: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruitment/coordinating-lead-editor-needed-for-third-world-quarterly/
Two countries, two very different BRI strategies. New at TWQ: Saudi Arabia hedges with China from a position of strength (oil money, centralised decisions); Turkiye hedges from vulnerability (locked out of IMEC, running a trade deficit). https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2026.2685312 #BeltAndRoad
Connecting ambitions: how Riyadh and Ankara navigate China’s Belt and Road Initiative for economic and geopolitical gains
This paper argues that the Belt and Road Initiative has catalysed a fundamental strategic reorientation in the Middle East, particularly for the agency of ambitious regional nodal powers like Turki...
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New in TWQ: Azami and Sandal on how Iran's government state-supported film industry functions as a tool of statecraft or foreign policy tool —not just to entertain people, but to shape how Iran is seen at home and abroad. Read here:
Cinematic statecraft: ontological security and state-supported filmmaking in Iran
This article examines state-supported Iranian cinema as a form of statecraft that mediates the Islamic Republic’s pursuit of ontological security. Drawing on international relations theory, it argu...
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Why do peace interventions keep missing the people they're meant to help? Lakitsch says it's an ontology problem, and proposes "relational peace" — pluriversal, non-anthropocentric, built from cases in Iraq, Rwanda, East Timor, Nepal, Yemen. 🧵
Relational peace: navigating pluriversal and non-anthropocentric international peace practice
International peace interventions are being haunted by an inability to relate to the lived realities of actors living in (post-)conflict environments. The crucial underlying challenge concerns the ...
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Sudan's war (150k+ dead, 14m+ displaced) has a trafficking and slavery crisis that's barely been studied. Ogunniyi traces it from the Pharaohs to RSF slave markets today — and asks why international law isn't being enforced. 🧵 https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2026.2682544 #Sudan #HumanRights
Sudan’s forgotten war and exploitation: reasserting the legal obligations of parties to prevent trafficking and slavery during armed conflicts
Relative to other global conflicts, the ongoing war in Sudan has exemplified a paradigmatic forgotten war, despite its varying ramifications for victims and the wider civilian population. In many w...
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What shapes public support for political conditionality in Africa? 🔗 Read the open-access article: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2026.2676291 #ForeignAid #PoliticalConditionality #Afrobarometer #DemocracyPromotion
Public support for political conditionality in Africa
The recent spate of coups d’état and other threats to democratisation in Africa has raised questions about the role international actors can play in addressing democratic backsliding. International...
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What does divorce mean when the courts have closed, the shelter has collapsed, and there is no food? Read the full article:
Family fragmentation, divorce and legal limbo in Gaza: a qualitative study of Palestinian mothers
This study explores how genocide in Gaza has reconfigured family life, with a focus on divorce, family fragmentation and legal paralysis. This research examines the lived experiences of Palestinian...
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🌍 Marking World Refugee Day on 20 June, and during Refugee Week in the UK, revisit recent open access articles from Third World Quarterly exploring refugees, displacement, humanitarianism, violence, repatriation, and epistemic erasure across the Global South.
Design is often presented as the solution to humanitarian and development crises — but is it really neutral, effective, or just? Explore the issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/47/9 📅 Launch webinar — Mon 22 June, 15:00 CAT: https://bit.ly/TWQ22June
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Who decides what Africa's most powerful buildings look like and why does it matter? 📖https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/47/7 #Africa #SoftPower #InternationalRelations #Architecture #GlobalSouth #ThirdWorldQuarterly
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Architecture as Soft Power in Africa. Guest editors: Irene Addo Appeaning, Mjiba Frehiwot, Lloyd Amoah, Nnamdi Elleh, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher. Volume 47, Issue 7 of Third World Quarterly
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⏰ Reminder: #Kassahun_Checole Prize Early Career Researchers (ECRs), including African writers and scholars writing on African contexts. Articles accepted for publication by 1 July 2026 will be considered for the prize.
Kassahun Checole Prize - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
Kassahun Checole Prize in African Studies Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is delighted to offer a prize in honour of Kassahun Checole for the best and most innovative article published in the Journal by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the field of African Studies. We encourage both African writers a...
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As #BISA2026 comes to an end, TWQ is pleased to make its special issue, “The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North”, guest edited by Ibrahim Fraihat and Abeer Al-Najjar, free to access for June and July. 🔗 Access the issue here:
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The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North. Guest Editors: Ibrahim Fraihat and Abeer Al-Najjar. Volume 47, Issue 10 of Third World Quarterly
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🎙️ We're delighted to sponsor the conference keynote at #BISA2026! Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmucu.bsky.social will speak on Violence and the Meaning of Peace on 3 June, 17:00–18:30. 📍 Visit the TWQ & @globalsouthshub.bsky.social stand. More info: indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/579/ti...
New in Third World Quarterly🌍📚 Exploring the complex relationship between corruption and informal welfare systems using Pakistan as a case study. 🔗
Corruption and informal welfare regime: a case study of Pakistan
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and informal security welfare regimes, where weak formal welfare systems drive reliance on community and patron-client networks. While schola...
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New piece by Elif Karaçimen in Third World Quarterly. How are development finance institutions reshaping agriculture and food systems? A sharp, empirically grounded read. 🔗
Financial footprint of development finance institutions in the restructuring of Turkey’s agri-food sector
Over the past decade, transformations in the agri-food sector – catalysed by the 2008 global financial and food crises – have intensified the financialisation of agriculture. While this process has...
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What might we miss when Indigenous-led prayer camps for land and water protection are understood as simply a language of “protest”? Read the article here:
More-than-human mediation in land protection: prayer as analytic
This research note highlights the more-than-human agents (such as tobacco and other plant medicines, ancestors, and sacred entities) involved in prayer camps organised for land and water protection...
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Beyond contributing to the literature on Confucius Institutes and China’s global presence, this new study published in Third World Quarterly offers broader lessons for global cultural diplomacy. Read the article:
China’s Confucius Institutes without headquarters: an insider’s perspective
As the incubator of all Confucius Institutes, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (CIH) was once among the most influential cultural and language organisations in the world. Yet the impact of its ...
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