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{"title":"Broadening the concept of interregionalism: beyond state-centrism and Eurocentrism","authors":"Andréas Litsegård, Frank Mattheis","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2274829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2274829","url":null,"abstract":"An increasingly relevant layer of South–South cooperation (SSC) is the proliferation of interactions between regional organisations, in addition to bilateral cooperation. However, studies on interregionalism often exhibit a Eurocentric bias and a state-centric approach, as they frequently overlook non-state actors in their analyses. This article seeks to expand the conceptualisation of interregionalism into a global phenomenon that is interlinked with regionalism in a reciprocal manner, and that is driven by the mutual impact between different stratifications of interregionalism, involving state as well as non-state actors. Using empirical examples from Latin America, Africa, the Arab World and Europe, the article finds that formal cooperation between regional organisations has a more substantial impact on regionalism, particularly in asymmetric settings. Meanwhile, the emergence of interregional civil society cooperation remains closely tied to the existence of state-driven interregionalism whether as a sponsor or a common adversary.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":" 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135192015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and national security: Indonesia’s Natuna Island and the South China Sea issue","authors":"Yani Yang, Yizheng Zou","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2270507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2270507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"204 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136318967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A crisis of ontological security in foreign policy: Iran and international sanctions in the post–JCPOA era","authors":"Fariborz Arghavani Pirsalami, Arash Moradi, Hosein Alipour","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2267986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2267986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"22 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective","authors":"Wan-Ping Lin","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2267019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2267019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guns, gender and petroleum: a critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory","authors":"Selver B. Sahin, Stepan Verkhovets","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2269111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2269111","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article examines the underlying political economy context of the uneven development outcomes in post-conflict Timor-Leste. We use a modified version of a structural political economy approach that is situated in a Gramscian understanding of the state-society relationship. This approach conceptualises development as a process of historically specific class-based and gender-based contestations over the distribution of resources that result in particular forms of socio-political orders maintained through a combination of institutional and ideological mechanisms of wealth generation. Our analysis of whose interests have been prioritised and marginalised in post-independence Timor-Leste is based on a systematic examination of three major factors: regulation of class relations, organisation of gender relations, and the governance of the petroleum industry. We conclude that despite some important improvements in the formation of formal democratic institutions in Timor-Leste, the processes of the distribution of power and access to resources remain far from being inclusive prioritising a class-based group of male-dominant elites that manipulates institutions to advance their interests and use a hegemonic gender ideology to justify and maintain these existing unequal arrangements in the prevailing socio-political order. Thus, the development outcomes in Timor-Leste are strongly connected to the political-economic processes from a larger historical perspective.Keywords: Timor-Lestestate institutionsresistance movementgender relationspetroleum industry AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful to the editors and three anonymous referees of Third World Quarterly for their valuable and constructive comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSelver B. SahinSelver B. Sahin is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She is the author of International Intervention and State- Making: How the Exception Became the Norm (Routledge, 2015). Her research is focused on the social dynamics of institutional and governmental outcomes and has been published in Democratisation, Development Policy Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Studies Review, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and International Peacekeeping.Stepan VerkhovetsStepan Verkhovets is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has published his research work on the political economy of institutional and governmental outcomes in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Globalizations.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135570161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From financial inclusion to financial health of refugees: urging for a shift in perspective","authors":"Swati Mehta Dhawan, Kim Wilson, Hans-Martin Zademach","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2264780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2264780","url":null,"abstract":"Based on new empirical insights gained in a multi-country project with a particular focus on Jordan as a hotspot of international development in the context of forced displacement, the paper in hand stages the relevance of the concept of financial health vis-à-vis financial inclusion to better support the financial lives of refugees. Financial inclusion of refugees – allowing them to store, borrow, and transfer money, insure against shocks, and pay bills through the formal financial infrastructure of host countries – has become a well-established practice in endeavours of economic integration in protracted displacement. Such access is expected to enable refugees to rebuild their livelihoods and become self-reliant. In other contexts, however, there is increasing acknowledgement that financial services are only a means to an end and not the end itself, resulting in a push for a shift in focus to a more holistic approach. Applying this understanding to the context of forced displacement, our research demonstrates that financial services are only one, and often not the most important, input to improve the self-reliance of refugees. In the absence of supportive conditions, such as access to jobs, identity and long-term certainty, financial inclusion investments can only improve refugees’ financial lives at the margins.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135779121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Instrumentalising the army before elections in Turkey","authors":"Huseyin Zengin","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2257146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2257146","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper argues that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has instrumentalised the Turkish army by conducting military operations in the run-up to elections. Although ending military tutelage has been interpreted in other countries as a sign of the professionalisation of the army, in Turkey it has done the opposite: the civilianisation discourse and civilian hegemony over military institutions have led to the instrumentalisation of the army. I demonstrate that the number of military operations significantly increased in the lead-up to elections, which strongly indicates the extent of instrumentalisation. Previous studies have primarily focused on the army’s praetorian role, neglecting the instrumentalisation process in which the military is engaged. This paper analyses the operational aspect of the army and introduces the concept of instrumentalisation. I contend that the cessation of military tutelage in Turkey has resulted in the securitisation of both society and politics. The failed coup in 2016, the double elections of 2015, and the heightened interest in the defence sector during election periods provide strong grounds for examining the instrumentalisation hypothesis.Keywords: Civil–military relationsAKPterrorismconflictelections AcknowledgementsI thank the anonymous reviewers for the excellent peer-review process. I also acknowledge the immense support of the Institute for Humane Studies.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsHuseyin ZenginHuseyin Zengin is currently Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are political violence, civil–military relations, and democratisation. His work has appeared in Democratization, Research & Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development and Mediterranean Politics.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135579468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry","authors":"Claudia Eggart","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2254242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2254242","url":null,"abstract":"The Kyrgyzstani apparel industry has seen spectacular growth in recent years, despite informal structures, a predatory business environment, and intersecting crises. Contrary to other apparel producers in the Global South, ‘Made in Kyrgyzstan’ (MiK) has emerged from below and independently of multinational corporations or state-funded development initiatives. This article takes an ethnographic approach to examine how apparel producers navigate the challenging national and geopolitical environment in which their businesses are embedded. It does so based on long-term fieldwork, conducted before (2019), during (2020, online), and after (2021) the pandemic at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, the main distribution platform for locally produced apparel. Based on the ethnographic material, this article questions the meaningfulness of an informality framework in the corrupt context of the Kyrgyzstani state, and instead shifts the focus on attempts to build durable businesses that are capable of dealing with local and global constraints. Doing so, it makes two related points. Firstly, it traces the unique nature of post-Soviet economic transformation in Kyrgyzstan through the peculiar growth of the informal apparel industry. Secondly, it emphasises the relevance of endemic state corruption when studying informal economic practices on the ground.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136155224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between hunger and contagion: digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID-19 emergency in Delhi","authors":"Martin Webb, Aasim Khan, Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Riad Azam, Farhat Salim","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2257612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2257612","url":null,"abstract":"When COVID-19 struck India in March 2020 the central government announced a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the virus. In Delhi, the suspension of normal economic and social life precipitated a crisis of hunger for the thousands who depend on daily wage labour to feed their families. Many of these workers were unable to access the city’s Public Distribution System for subsidised food supplies because they lacked the correct paperwork. In response, the Delhi government implemented an online system, known as E-Coupons, through which those affected could apply for emergency rations. However, this digital system proved complicated to navigate for the marginalised people that it was aimed at. In the east Delhi neighbourhood in which this research took place brokers offering digital connections and online form-filling services proliferated in the crisis, but often provided unreliable or incomplete support to those in need. Recognising the need for digital mediation and support for the marginalised we argue that networks of reliable community advocates are required if welfare bureaucracies are to be digitised through mobile governance projects such as E-Coupons. The human mediation and advocacy, which underpins these schemes should be acknowledged and included in system design.","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theory importation and the death of homegrown disciplinary potential: an autopsy of Turkish IR","authors":"Ersel Aydinli","doi":"10.1080/01436597.2023.2257141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2257141","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA primary premise of the Global IR initiative is its emphasis on world history as a basis for global IR theorising. While non-Western contributions are thus critical, periphery IR disciplinary communities operate under the dominance and homogenising effect of core IR theories based on Western history and intellectual traditions. An import-­dependent culture takes over periphery disciplinary communities, neutralising their potential for original IR production and theory creation. This study explores these assumptions by focusing on the case of Turkish IR; providing an evaluation of its evolution and current status, and suggesting lessons it might have for other periphery communities and the future of Global IR overall. It offers a longitudinal qualitative investigation of Turkish IR scholars’ perceptions of their community’s evolution. They suggest that Turkish IR has become a dependent ­consumer of core IR theory and devalued its history base, leaving it bifurcated between a minority ‘core-of-the-periphery’ who operate as ‘compradors’, copying and marketing global core knowledge, and a majority ‘periphery-of-the-periphery’, who remain voiceless, disconnected and resentful. Ultimately, the local community is unable to offer original contributions to the globalisation of IR, and the global IR movement is structurally diminished through the exclusion of large portions of the scholarly community.Keywords: Global IRIR theoryTurkish IRdependencyperiphery Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 I am well aware of the various problems involved with using terms like ‘core’ and ‘periphery’, ‘West’ and ‘the rest’, or even global North and South. They are at best imprecise, and they run the risk of reifying binary hierarchies in the discipline (Alejandro Citation2017; Gelardi Citation2020). Nevertheless, they provide familiar terms for referring to a distinction that is not only identified and discussed at length in the literature, but is, equally importantly, clearly recognized in the lived experiences of the ‘periphery’ scholars whose perspectives are the primary focus of this article. For this reason the terms are used here, and defined in this article with a broadly linguistic understanding of the ‘core’ referring to North America, the UK and Oceania, and the ‘periphery’ being comprised of the non-Anglo-American ‘rest’.Additional informationNotes on contributorsErsel AydinliErsel Aydinli is a professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara. His research interests include the disciplinary sociology of international relations, international security with a focus on non-state actors, and Turkey’s security strategy and foreign policy. He has published a number of books, including Violent Non-State Actors: From Anarchists to Jihadists (Routledge, 2016), and articles in such journals as the Journal of Peace Research, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Security Di","PeriodicalId":48280,"journal":{"name":"Third World Quarterly","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}