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"Architecture as Soft Power in Africa's International Relations" explores how foreign governments use gifted buildings to project influence across the continent. Schools, universities, parliaments, mosques: each one a form of diplomacy made concrete.
Who decides what Africa's most powerful buildings look like and why does it matter?
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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. Â
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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”?
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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.Â
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Exploring the complex relationship between corruption and informal welfare systems using Pakistan as a case study.
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New piece by Elif Karaçimen in Third World Quarterly.
How are development finance institutions reshaping agriculture and food systems?Â
A sharp, empirically grounded read.
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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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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...
⏰ Reminder: #Kassahun_Checole PrizeÂ
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.
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 ...
🎙️ 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.
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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...
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...
