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.
War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century: Development, Violence and Insecurity
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Berger, Heloise Weber
September 10, 2012
The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy ...
War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen F. Jones
December 15, 2011
The South Caucasus has traditionally been a playground of contesting empires. This region, on the edge of Europe, is associated in Western minds with ethnic conflict and geopolitical struggles in August 2008. Yet, another war broke out in this distant European periphery as Russia and Georgia ...
Market-Led Agrarian Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff
May 03, 2011
Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian ...
Globalisation and Migration: New Issues, New Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronaldo Munck
August 10, 2010
This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how ...
Connecting Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Bainbridge
March 18, 2009
This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble ...
From Nation-Building to State-Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark T. Berger
February 23, 2009
This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, ...
The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer
February 20, 2009
The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of ...
Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq
1st Edition
By Sultan Barakat
January 25, 2008
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective. Post 9/11 the US developed a policy of War on Terror, taking the ...
The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Cornwall, Maxine Molyneux
December 28, 2007
Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings. ...