ThirdWorlds
About the Book Series
THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.
THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those ‘Souths’ within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.
Rising Powers and South-South Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Gray, Barry Gills
October 18, 2018
This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alternative to contemporary global economic and political governance through emergent forms of South-South cooperation. In contrast to the Third Worldism of...
The Green Economy in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefano Ponte, Daniel Brockington
September 27, 2018
The idea and practice of the ‘green economy’ is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. ‘Green economic initiatives’ in the Global South are multiplying, and ...
Corruption in the Aftermath of War
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonas Lindberg, Camilla Orjuela
June 07, 2017
Corruption is a serious concern, one which can undermine state legitimacy, exacerbate inequality, and affect trust between social groups. Such effects are particularly problematic in societies that have gone through violent conflict, and are struggling to rebuild institutions, restore social trust,...
Emerging Powers and the UN: What Kind of Development Partnership?
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Weiss, Adriana Abdenur
June 07, 2017
The post-2015 sustainable development goals and the changing environment for development cooperation requires a renewed and transformed UN system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers, a growing number of emerging countries will play an expanded role in the UN system, which...
Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Citizens’ Needs, Entitlements and Struggles for Access
1st Edition
Edited
By David Gullette, Jeanne Féaux de la Croix
June 07, 2017
The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on energy in the region has thus largely focused on related geopolitical issues and national policies. However, little is known about citizens’ needs within this broader ...
Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Gray, Craig N. Murphy
November 08, 2016
This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance. Through studies of Brazil, India, China, and other important developing countries within their respective regions ...
Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond: Contested Trajectories
1st Edition
Edited
By Madeleine Reeves
October 10, 2016
Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the ...
Political Civility in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederic Volpi
October 10, 2016
Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states. For contemporary scholars and policy makers, the challenge is to insert meaningfully the political evolution of the Middle East in the dominant ...
The Afghan Conundrum: intervention, statebuilding and resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Goodhand, Mark Sedra
October 10, 2016
This book covers the period spanning the international invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to the foreign military withdrawal in 2014. It explores and dissects the conflictual encounter between international troops, statebuilders and donors on the one hand, and Afghan elites and the wider population on...
The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Nana Poku, Jim Whitman
October 10, 2016
As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ‘snapshot’ fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. ...
The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Meike Fechter
October 10, 2016
This book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work. The contributions to this edited volume are based on the assumption that all actors are relevant in development, including national and international aid workers. A key question which...
The Political Invention of Fragile States: The Power of Ideas
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonja Grimm, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Olivier Nay
October 10, 2016
This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of...