Books in the ThirdWorlds series

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

This book provides case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. The chapters were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.

This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making.

This book seeks to provide an unflinching and empirically grounded account of the various facets of international intervention in Afghanistan and their complex and frequently unintended ramifications for Afghan society. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

The studies which comprise this volume not only critique the outcomes of the Millennium Development Goals to date, but also offer a substantial and informed critique of the development landscape beyond 2015. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The contributions in this book demonstrate how aid workers' personal and professional relationships and values influence their perspectives on, and practices of aid, and argue that these need to be taken into account to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of development. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of youth, both as a social group and a life stage, in Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union. It was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

This book brings together contributions that revisit the dynamics and complexities of the history of war and peace in relation to the pursuit of progress. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The Antipodes - Australia and New Zealand - share an ambivalent location as countries of the 'North' in wealth, development and dominant intellectual genealogies but 'South' in latitude and history. This innovative book is the first to explore the approaches to development produced by the Antipodes' geopolitical positioning. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This book examines issues critical to our understanding of health and healing in contemporary Central Asia and offers new perspectives on the history of medicine in Central Asia. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

This book explores the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of both successful and failed state-led development, the authors push the analysis of the developmental state beyond its original limitations and into the 21st century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarte

This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This book is the first collection devoted to a regional exploration of issues of well-being and shows how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being influence an analysis of Central Asia and informs an understanding of everyday life. It was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.