Third World Quarterly

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Volume 37, issue 12, 2016

The potential for tackling inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 2139-2155

Katja Freistein and Bettina Mahlert

Whose feminism counts? Gender(ed) knowledge and professionalisation in development pp. 2156-2175

Lata Narayanaswamy

Understanding the nature of change: how institutional perspectives can inform contemporary studies of development cooperation pp. 2176-2191

Adam Moe Fejerskov

Unethical power Europe? Something fishy about EU trade and development policies pp. 2192-2210

Catherine Gegout

Boko Haram: understanding the context pp. 2211-2228

Wisdom Oghosa Iyekekpolo

Humanitarian neophilia: the ‘innovation turn’ and its implications pp. 2229-2251

Tom Scott-Smith

Five years after the Arab Spring: a critical evaluation pp. 2252-2258

Bülent Aras and Richard Falk

State, region and order: geopolitics of the Arab Spring pp. 2259-2273

Bülent Aras and Emirhan Yorulmazlar

Turkish foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring era: from proactive to buffer state pp. 2274-2287

E. Fuat Keyman

The limits of mediation in the Arab Spring: the case of Syria pp. 2288-2303

Pınar Akpınar

The political and theological boundaries of Islamist moderation after the Arab Spring pp. 2304-2321

Halil Ibrahim Yenigün

Rethinking the Arab Spring: uprisings, counterrevolution, chaos and global reverberations pp. 2322-2334

Richard Falk

List of Reviewers pp. 2335-2336

The Editors

Volume 37, issue 11, 2016

Foreword: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) special issue pp. 1943-1945

Richard Falk

Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual pp. 1946-1956

Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds, Amar Bhatia and Sujith Xavier

The Third World intellectual in praxis: confrontation, participation, or operation behind enemy lines? pp. 1957-1971

Georges Abi-Saab

On fighting for global justice: the role of a Third World international lawyer pp. 1972-1989

M. Sornarajah

Regulation of armed conflict: critical comparativism pp. 1990-2009

Nesrine Badawi

Decolonisation, dignity and development aid: a judicial education experience in Palestine pp. 2010-2027

Reem Bahdi and Mudar Kassis

The conjunctural in international law: the revolutionary struggle against semi-peripheral sovereignty in Iraq pp. 2028-2046

Ali Hammoudi

Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the idea of Muslim Marxism: empire, Third World(s) and praxis pp. 2047-2060

Vanja Hamzić

International lawyers in the aftermath of disasters: inheriting from Radhabinod Pal and Upendra Baxi pp. 2061-2079

Adil Hasan Khan

The South of Western constitutionalism: a map ahead of a journey pp. 2080-2097

Zoran Oklopcic

Disrupting civility: amateur intellectuals, international lawyers and TWAIL as praxis pp. 2098-2118

John Reynolds

Migration, development and security within racialised global capitalism: refusing the balance game pp. 2119-2138

Adrian A. Smith

Volume 37, issue 10, 2016

Class dynamics of development: a methodological note pp. 1745-1767

Liam Campling, Satoshi Miyamura, Jonathan Pattenden and Benjamin Selwyn

Global value chains and human development: a class-relational framework pp. 1768-1786

Benjamin Selwyn

Class dynamics in contract farming: the case of tobacco production in Mozambique pp. 1787-1808

Helena Pérez Niño

Working at the margins of global production networks: local labour control regimes and rural-based labourers in South India pp. 1809-1833

Jonathan Pattenden

New forms of wage labour and struggle in the informal sector: the case of waste pickers in Turkey pp. 1834-1854

Demet Ş. Dinler

Evo Morales and the political economy of passive revolution in Bolivia, 2006–15 pp. 1855-1876

Jeffery R. Webber

Class, gender and the sweatshop: on the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation pp. 1877-1900

Alessandra Mezzadri

War, the state and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931–60 pp. 1901-1920

Owen Miller

Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India pp. 1921-1941

Satoshi Miyamura

Volume 37, issue 9, 2016

How irresponsible are rising powers? pp. 1525-1536

Julian Culp

Tradition and modernity: an obsolete dichotomy? Binary thinking, indigenous peoples and normalisation pp. 1537-1558

Celine Germond-Duret

Under construction and highly contested: Islam in the post-Soviet Caucasus pp. 1559-1580

Sofie Bedford and Emil Aslan Souleimanov

Rising competitive authoritarianism in Turkey pp. 1581-1606

Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu

The global, the local and the hybrid in the making of Johannesburg as a world class African city pp. 1607-1627

Mfaniseni F. Sihlongonyane

China’s ‘New Silk Roads’: sub-national regions and networks of global political economy pp. 1628-1643

Tim Summers

‘Occupied territory is occupied territory’: James Baldwin, Palestine and the possibilities of transnational solidarity pp. 1644-1660

Timothy Seidel

Cuba: heading for a new development and political model – an introduction pp. 1661-1665

Vegard Bye, Bert Hoffmann and Laurence Whitehead

The ‘puzzle’ of autocratic resilience/regime collapse: the case of Cuba pp. 1666-1682

Laurence Whitehead

Economic transformations in Cuba: a review pp. 1683-1697

Ricardo Torres Perez

The great paradox: how Obama’s opening to Cuba may imperil the country’s reform process pp. 1698-1712

Vegard Bye

Self-employment in Cuba: between informality and entrepreneurship – the case of shoe manufacturing pp. 1713-1729

Yailenis Mulet Concepción

Bureaucratic socialism in reform mode: the changing politics of Cuba’s post-Fidel era pp. 1730-1744

Bert Hoffmann

Volume 37, issue 8, 2016

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: managing a twenty-first century threat pp. 1299-1313

Kylie Baxter and Renee Davidson

Data hubris? Humanitarian information systems and the mirage of technology pp. 1314-1331

Róisín Read, Bertrand Taithe and Roger Mac Ginty

Consent behind the counter: aspiring citizens and labour control under precarious (im)migration schemes pp. 1332-1350

Geraldina Polanco

The paradoxes of the ‘everyday’: scrutinising the local turn in peace building pp. 1351-1370

Elisa Randazzo

Innovation spaces: lessons from the United Nations pp. 1371-1387

Louise Bloom and Romily Faulkner

Conceptualising components, conditions and trajectories of food sovereignty’s ‘sovereignty’ pp. 1388-1407

Antonio Roman-Alcalá

The Iran nuclear deal: winning a little, losing a lot pp. 1408-1424

Adam Tarock

Conceptualising and testing the ‘emerging regional power’ of Turkey in the shifting ınternational order pp. 1425-1453

Emel Parlar Dal

Humanitarianism in intra-state conflict: aid inequality and local governance in government- and opposition-controlled areas in the Syrian war pp. 1454-1482

Esther Meininghaus

Neo-extractivism and the new Latin American developmentalism: the missing piece of rural transformation pp. 1483-1504

Liisa L. North and Ricardo Grinspun

Politics of responsibility: governing distant populations through civil society in Mozambique, Rwanda and South Africa pp. 1505-1523

Håkan Thörn

Volume 37, issue 7, 2016

The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015: past as prelude? pp. 1147-1155

Thomas G. Weiss and Pallavi Roy

‘Idea-shift’: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order pp. 1156-1170

Amitav Acharya

Emerging powers and the creation of the UN: three ships of Theseus pp. 1171-1186

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

The revolt against the West: intervention and sovereignty pp. 1187-1202

Adekeye Adebajo

The South and disarmament at the UN pp. 1203-1218

Dan Plesch

Arab agency and the UN project: the League of Arab States between universality and regionalism pp. 1219-1233

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Normative human rights cascades, North and South pp. 1234-1251

Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? pp. 1252-1267

Nico Schrijver

Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view pp. 1268-1283

Fantu Cheru

Economic growth, the UN and the Global South: an unfulfilled promise pp. 1284-1297

Pallavi Roy

Volume 37, issue 6, 2016

The new face of developing country debt pp. 951-974

Roy Culpeper and Nihal Kappagoda

Understanding food security and international security links in the context of climate change pp. 975-997

Ane Cristina Figueiredo Pereira de Faria, Issa Ibrahim Berchin, Jéssica Garcia, Silvia Natália Barbosa Back and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

What celebrity humanitarianism have to do with empire? pp. 998-1015

April R. Biccum

Can the global South take over the baton? What cosmopolitanism in ‘unlikely’ places means for future world order pp. 1016-1034

Adam K. Webb

Theory and practice of labour-centred development pp. 1035-1052

Benjamin Selwyn

Assembling security in a ‘weak state:’ the contentious politics of plural governance in Lebanon since 2005 pp. 1053-1070

Waleed Hazbun

The limits of hospitality: coping strategies among displaced Syrians in Lebanon pp. 1071-1082

Cathrine Thorleifsson

The production of spatial hegemony as statecraft: an attempted passive revolution in the favelas of Rio pp. 1083-1101

Daniel S. Lacerda

Do street traders have the ‘right to the city’? The politics of street trader organisations in inner city Johannesburg, post-Operation Clean Sweep pp. 1102-1129

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

Why (most) Indonesian businesses fear the ASEAN Economic Community: struggling with Southeast Asia’s regional corporatism pp. 1130-1145

Jürgen Rüland

Corrigendum pp. 1146-1146

Waleed Hazbun

Volume 37, issue 5, 2016

The true extent of global poverty and hunger: questioning the good news narrative of the Millennium Development Goals pp. 749-767

Jason Hickel

Inducing food insecurity: financialisation and development in the post-2015 era pp. 768-780

Sally Brooks

Elite development theory: a labour-centred critique pp. 781-799

Benjamin Selwyn

Hegemony, military power projection and US structural economic interests in the periphery pp. 800-817

James M. Cypher

Recycling and expansion: an analysis of the World Bank agenda (1989–2014) pp. 818-839

João Márcio Mendes Pereira

Legitimising liberal militarism: politics, law and war in the Arms Trade Treaty pp. 840-865

Anna Stavrianakis

Two regionalisms, two Latin Americas or beyond Latin America? Contributions from a critical and decolonial IPE pp. 866-882

Ernesto Vivares and Michele Dolcetti-Marcolini

Contested water, contested development: unpacking the hydro-social cycle of the Ñuble River, Chile pp. 883-901

Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Cristian Leaman-Constanzo and Sophie Bond

The rise of biofuels in IR: the case of Brazilian foreign policy towards the EU pp. 902-916

Cristian Lorenzo and Patricio Yamin Vazquez

The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci’s national–popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran pp. 917-933

Shabnam J. Holliday

Countering piracy through private security in the Horn of Africa: prospects and pitfalls pp. 934-950

Ladan Affi, Afyare A. Elmi, W. Andy Knight and Said Mohamed

Volume 37, issue 4, 2016

South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South pp. 557-574

Kevin Gray and Barry K. Gills

BRICS, developing countries and global governance pp. 575-591

Deepak Nayyar

Emerging Southern powers and new forms of South–South cooperation: Ethiopia’s strategic engagement with China and India pp. 592-610

Fantu Cheru

BRICS banking and the debate over sub-imperialism pp. 611-629

Patrick Bond

Beyond ‘BRICS’: ten theses on South–South cooperation in the twenty-first century pp. 630-648

Thomas Muhr

Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy pp. 649-664

Soyeun Kim and Kevin Gray

Repositioning in global governance: horizontal and vertical shifts amid pliable neoliberalism pp. 665-681

James H. Mittelman

Ethno-territorial rights and the resource extraction boom in Latin America: do constitutions matter? pp. 682-702

Markus Kröger and Rickard Lalander

The prospects for transnational advocacy across the IBSA bloc – a view from Brazil pp. 703-720

Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues

Beyond varieties of development: disputes and alternatives pp. 721-732

Eduardo Gudynas

The resurgence of South–South cooperation pp. 733-743

Branislav Gosovic

Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky pp. 744-748

Barry K. Gills

Volume 37, issue 3, 2016

Introduction: Ebola and International Relations pp. 373-379

Anne Roemer-Mahler and Simon Rushton

Crisis! What crisis? Global health and the 2014–15 West African Ebola outbreak pp. 380-400

Colin McInnes

WHO’s to blame? The World Health Organization and the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa pp. 401-418

Adam Kamradt-Scott

Public health emergencies: a new peacekeeping mission? Insights from UNMIL’s role in the Liberia Ebola outbreak pp. 419-435

Sara E. Davies and Simon Rushton

Ebola respons-ibility: moving from shared to multiple responsibilities pp. 436-451

Clare Wenham

Ebola at the borders: newspaper representations and the politics of border control pp. 452-467

Sudeepa Abeysinghe

Infectious injustice: the political foundations of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone pp. 468-486

Emma-Louise Anderson and Alexander Beresford

The race for Ebola drugs: pharmaceuticals, security and global health governance pp. 487-506

Anne Roemer-Mahler and Stefan Elbe

Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola: between individual patient care and global biosecurity pp. 507-523

Polly Pallister-Wilkins

Ebola, gender and conspicuously invisible women in global health governance pp. 524-541

Sophie Harman

Ebola and the production of neglect in global health pp. 542-556

João Nunes

Volume 37, issue 2, 2016

The rise of the Global South, the IMF and the future of Law and Development pp. 191-208

Gabriel Garcia

Empowered borrowers? tracking the World Bank’s Program-for-Results pp. 209-226

Ben Cormier

Vulnerability and resilience: critical reflexivity in gendered violence research pp. 227-244

Edwina Pio and Smita Singh

Conceptualising corporate community development pp. 245-263

Glenn Banks, Regina Scheyvens, Sharon McLennan and Anthony Bebbington

Social policy and conflict: the Gezi Park–Taksim demonstrations and uses of social policy for reimagining Turkey pp. 264-280

Hakan Seckinelgin

War and state formation in Lebanon: can Tilly be applied to the developing world? pp. 281-298

Andrew Delatolla

Promoting democracy in Latin America: foreign policy change and US democracy assistance, 1975–2010 pp. 299-320

James M. Scott and Ralph G. Carter

A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building pp. 321-335

Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

Law, democracy and the fulfilment of socioeconomic rights: insights from Indonesia pp. 336-353

Andrew Rosser and Maryke van Diermen

Rwanda: an agrarian developmental state? pp. 354-370

Graham Harrison

Corrigendum pp. 371-371

The Editors

Volume 37, issue 1, 2016

The resilient state: new regulatory modes in international approaches to state building? pp. 1-16

Jan Pospisil and Florian P. Kühn

The humanitarian cyberspace: shrinking space or an expanding frontier? pp. 17-32

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Global South solidarity? China, regional organisations and intervention in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars pp. 33-50

Courtney J. Fung

The goals and reality of the water–food–energy security nexus: the case of China and its southern neighbours pp. 51-70

Sebastian Biba

Turkey and Russia in a shifting global order: cooperation, conflict and asymmetric interdependence in a turbulent region pp. 71-95

Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz

The geopolitical economy of social policy in the Philippines: securitisation, emerging powers and multilateral policies pp. 96-118

Ben Reid

Paradoxes of (dis)empowerment in the postcolony: women, culture and social capital in Ghana pp. 119-135

Sylvia Bawa

‘New’ approaches confront ‘old’ challenges in African public sector reform pp. 136-152

Pablo Yanguas and Badru Bukenya

Decentralisation, socio-territoriality and the exercise of indigenous self-governance in Bolivia pp. 153-171

Jason Tockman

Unfulfilled promises of the consultation approach: the limits to effective indigenous participation in Bolivia’s and Peru’s extractive industries pp. 172-188

Riccarda Flemmer and Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor

TWQ’s reviewers pp. 189-190

The Editors