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📢 New #ThirdWorldQuarterly research examines the lived experiences of women managers in Sierra Leone’s NGO sector—and how gendered norms, opaque promotion systems and work–family conflict continue to shape their careers.
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Breaking the glass ceiling revisited: examining the lived experiences and reflections of women in managerial positions in Sierra Leone
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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September 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
📢 New #ThirdWorldQuarterly research examines the lived experiences of women managers in Sierra Leone’s NGO sector—and how gendered norms, opaque promotion systems and work–family conflict continue to shape their careers.
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🎉📚 Congratulations to Azzeddine Tajjiou, the inaugural recipient of the TWQ Kassahun Checole Award in #AfricanStudies! His innovative work rethinks how African literatures are studied and compared, opening up new possibilities for scholarship in the field.
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September 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
🎉📚 Congratulations to Azzeddine Tajjiou, the inaugural recipient of the TWQ Kassahun Checole Award in #AfricanStudies! His innovative work rethinks how African literatures are studied and compared, opening up new possibilities for scholarship in the field.
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Review of International Studies is looking for a new editorial team 📣
An exciting opportunity to edit one of the discipline’s leading journals! 📚
You can find out more about RIS here and submit today! 👉 https://ow.ly/F10250ZkzjC
Andy Hom Juanita Elias @julietdryden.bsky.social
An exciting opportunity to edit one of the discipline’s leading journals! 📚
You can find out more about RIS here and submit today! 👉 https://ow.ly/F10250ZkzjC
Andy Hom Juanita Elias @julietdryden.bsky.social
New editorial team for Review of International Studies: Call for expressions of interest
We are seeking to appoint a new editorial team for our journal Review of International Studies.
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September 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Review of International Studies is looking for a new editorial team 📣
An exciting opportunity to edit one of the discipline’s leading journals! 📚
You can find out more about RIS here and submit today! 👉 https://ow.ly/F10250ZkzjC
Andy Hom Juanita Elias @julietdryden.bsky.social
An exciting opportunity to edit one of the discipline’s leading journals! 📚
You can find out more about RIS here and submit today! 👉 https://ow.ly/F10250ZkzjC
Andy Hom Juanita Elias @julietdryden.bsky.social
New Special Issue in Third World Quarterly (TWQ): Polyalignment and the Second Cold War
🌍This SI explores why many states refuse to choose between the US and China and why “alignment” looks different in a deeply interconnected world.
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🌍This SI explores why many states refuse to choose between the US and China and why “alignment” looks different in a deeply interconnected world.
Read more about the SI here 👇
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TWQ Special Issue: Polyalignment and the Second Cold War - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
“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...
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September 2, 2026 at 9:35 AM
New Special Issue in Third World Quarterly (TWQ): Polyalignment and the Second Cold War
🌍This SI explores why many states refuse to choose between the US and China and why “alignment” looks different in a deeply interconnected world.
Read more about the SI here 👇
globalsouth.org/2026/09/twq-...
🌍This SI explores why many states refuse to choose between the US and China and why “alignment” looks different in a deeply interconnected world.
Read more about the SI here 👇
globalsouth.org/2026/09/twq-...
How do changes in political leadership reshape the institutions responsible for delivering social policy?
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Policy implementation and public organisations: exploring change and stability in Ecuador’s social sector (2007–2023)
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...
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August 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
How do changes in political leadership reshape the institutions responsible for delivering social policy?
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What happens when football becomes more than a game—when it also becomes a political and symbolic arena?
⚽ Read the article in Third World Quarterly.
⚽ Read the article in Third World Quarterly.
Beyond the pitch: sportswashing and nation-building in Latin American World Cup media
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...
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August 25, 2026 at 9:04 AM
What happens when football becomes more than a game—when it also becomes a political and symbolic arena?
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⚽ Read the article in Third World Quarterly.
Why does violence persist alongside democracy in Colombia?
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Turbulent equilibria: the coexistence of civil and warring oligarchic modes of rule in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
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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August 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Why does violence persist alongside democracy in Colombia?
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Revisit recent TWQ articles exploring humanitarian action, dignity, justice, and power across the Global South in this World Humanitarian Day🌍 under the 2026 theme “Strengthening Global Solidarity and Empowering Local Communities,”
August 19, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Revisit recent TWQ articles exploring humanitarian action, dignity, justice, and power across the Global South in this World Humanitarian Day🌍 under the 2026 theme “Strengthening Global Solidarity and Empowering Local Communities,”
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This guide offers practical steps to build a strong digital presence with traditional and AI-enhanced approaches to amplify research impact.
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August 17, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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New research collection
Taylor & Francis Group has launched a free-to-access collection of research to support the global response to Ebola, bringing together perspectives from across the medical and social sciences.
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Taylor & Francis Group has launched a free-to-access collection of research to support the global response to Ebola, bringing together perspectives from across the medical and social sciences.
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Ebola: Free-to-access medical and social science research
Journal articles, books, and book chapters to support the global response to the Ebola epidemic, handpicked by our expert editors and publishers.
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August 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
New research collection
Taylor & Francis Group has launched a free-to-access collection of research to support the global response to Ebola, bringing together perspectives from across the medical and social sciences.
Explore
Taylor & Francis Group has launched a free-to-access collection of research to support the global response to Ebola, bringing together perspectives from across the medical and social sciences.
Explore
Woman, Life, Freedom — or Jin, Jiyan, Azadî in Kurdish — became the defining slogan of the 2022 movement in Iran. But what happens when its Kurdish and decolonial roots are overlooked?
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Jin, Jiyan Azadî: decolonising the ‘Iranian Nation’
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...
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August 10, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Woman, Life, Freedom — or Jin, Jiyan, Azadî in Kurdish — became the defining slogan of the 2022 movement in Iran. But what happens when its Kurdish and decolonial roots are overlooked?
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🚨 Calling all early-career researchers!
Interested in becoming a more confident and effective peer reviewer?
Join the upcoming Reviewer Event hosted by Third World Quarterly, Central Asian Studies, and Globalizations
Interested in becoming a more confident and effective peer reviewer?
Join the upcoming Reviewer Event hosted by Third World Quarterly, Central Asian Studies, and Globalizations
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August 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🚨 Calling all early-career researchers!
Interested in becoming a more confident and effective peer reviewer?
Join the upcoming Reviewer Event hosted by Third World Quarterly, Central Asian Studies, and Globalizations
Interested in becoming a more confident and effective peer reviewer?
Join the upcoming Reviewer Event hosted by Third World Quarterly, Central Asian Studies, and Globalizations
Has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) fully embraced climate action?
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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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July 31, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) fully embraced climate action?
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Now online: the full video from Third World Quarterly special issue launch🌍
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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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July 29, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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What does digital sovereignty mean when AI infrastructure, expertise and standards remain controlled elsewhere?
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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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July 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
What does digital sovereignty mean when AI infrastructure, expertise and standards remain controlled elsewhere?
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Event in Leeds on July 27th with Ivanir dos Santos : Race, Religion and Resistance in Brazil
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July 21, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Follow SLAS across all platforms for the latest in Latin American studies!
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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
Submissions should be in the form of Research Notes.
📅 Abstract deadline: 23 August 2026.
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July 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM
📢 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
Submissions should be in the form of Research Notes.
📅 Abstract deadline: 23 August 2026.
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#CallForPapers
What would it mean to treat pluriversality not only as a theoretical concept, but as a methodology?
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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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July 22, 2026 at 7:31 AM
What would it mean to treat pluriversality not only as a theoretical concept, but as a methodology?
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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.
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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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July 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
📖 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.
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⚖️ 17 July, World Day for International Justice.
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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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July 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM
⚖️ 17 July, World Day for International Justice.
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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.
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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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July 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
🚨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....
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....
TWQ is recruiting a Coordinating Lead Editor | Third World Quarterly.
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https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruitment/coordinating-lead-editor-needed-for-third-world-quarterly/
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July 15, 2026 at 8:04 AM
TWQ is recruiting a Coordinating Lead Editor | Third World Quarterly.
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https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruitment/coordinating-lead-editor-needed-for-third-world-quarterly/
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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
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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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July 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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
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#BeltAndRoad