Globally, gender inequality in corporate management remains a recurring problem as women continue to be underrepresented in managerial roles despite increasing participation in the workforce. In Si...

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“We’re neither facing east nor west; we're facing forward where opportunities are.” Those are the words of Kenyan President William Ruto in response to a journalist who asked whether Kenya would prefe...

This research analyses organisational changes in Ecuador’s social sector on the premise that the implementation of new policies entails transformations in the institutions responsible for their exe...

This study examines how the FIFA World Cup has been framed as a political and symbolic arena in Latin American newspaper coverage from 1978 to 2022. Drawing on thematic content analysis of 49 artic...

This paper explores the persistence of the Colombian Puzzle, democracy with violence, in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast by analysing the coexistence of distinct modes of oligarchic rule, drawing on Win...

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The national question in Iran has been both a catalyst for and an obstacle to the women-led 2022 Jin, Jiyan, Azadî (JJA; Woman, Life, Freedom) movement. While the movement generated unprecedented t...

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, ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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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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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The September 2025 youth-led protests in Nepal show how fragile democracies can escalate into rapid, multi-domain legitimacy crises when regulatory interventions collide with low trust and entrench...

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This paper critically re-examines prevailing interpretations of Iran’s regional policy in sponsoring the axis of resistance, with particular focus on the theory of forward defence. The uncoordinate...

This paper examines the Western legacy media’s coverage of the war on Gaza, particularly news media organisations with business models that allow them to be independent and, therefore, not complete...

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 ...

This article explores labour importism (LI) as a process of labour provisioning whose organising principle is the importation of temporary migrant workers. The analysis is developed around the Arab...

This research note offers an introduction to and critique of contemporary vehicle financing in Uganda’s motorcycle-taxi (boda boda) industry. Informal workers in this sector have long accessed moto...