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Book review: From the First World War to The Arab Spring: What’s Really Going On in the Middle East?

M. E. McMillan (editor)

Authors: Wai Yip Ho

Languaging in digital global South–North spaces in the twenty-first century: media, language and identity in political discourse

Drawing inspiration from two theoretical framings: a sociocultural perspective on languaging and writings on a decolonial-turn, the study presented in this paper center-stages issues related to the need to eng...

Authors: Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Aprameya Rao

Rapid urbanization and changing land values in mega cities: implications for housing development projects in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This paper explores changing land values in the process of rapid urbanization in Dhaka, Bangladesh and its implications for urban land management and administration in the megacity. The study reveals that subs...

Authors: Md. Jahangir Alam

Expression of Concern to: Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India

The Editor-in-Chief is issuing an editorial expression of concern to alert readers that an allegation of plagiarism has been brought with respect to this article (Das 2016). We have submitted the allegation to...

Authors: Debojyoti Das

Review of In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island by Hannah C. M. Bulloch

Bulloch, HCM

Authors: Jozon A. Lorenzana

Open Science, Bandung and Ezekiel: crafting a transnational knowledge space towards the brave new world

To explore a new de-colonial option for the global future, this article grapples with three movements of our time: the ‘Open Science’ movement, the 1955 African-Asian conference and the Non-Aligned Movement, a...

Authors: Pak Nung Wong

Understanding community development in Sekyere Central District, Ghana

Community development is fundamentally about the development of community involving a sense of common identity, capacity and purpose. It can take the form of unpaid active citizenship with community members or...

Authors: Kingsford Gyasi Amakye

TPP, trade-off and eco-system establishment in Taiwan

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement with high standards, affecting multiple industries, and imposing tremendous economic impacts. The TPP accounts for 36% of world GDP and its signifi...

Authors: Jiann-Chyuan Wang, Joe-San Lee and Yu-Chun Ma

Correlates of child undernutrition in Yemen

Malnutrition is part of a vicious cycle involving biological and social aspects. Some factors are directly associated with malnutrition, such as inadequate dietary intake and incidence of disease, while others...

Authors: Laetícia R. De Souza

Looking north or looking anywhere? Indo-Fijian international relations after the coups of May 2000 and December 2006

Between 1987 and 2006 Fiji experienced four coups in which Governments were overthrown by their military forces or parts of it. After the fourth coup in December 2006 old metropolitan friends such as Australia...

Authors: Eberhard Weber

México and the TPP: a critical view on diversification and intellectual property

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement was signed on February 4, 2016. The published text confirmed some fears but also brought relief as the details of what had been negotiated became publicly known. This pa...

Authors: Juan Felipe López Aymes

Water and ecological resource governance: the GBB context

Authors: M. Anwar Hossen

Public–private partnership in higher education provision in Tanzania: implications for access to and quality of education

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in education are presented as capable of resolving several issues of education provision, financing, management, access and quality. This paper aimed at analyzing the impact ...

Authors: Samson John Mgaiwa and Japhace Poncian

Reshaping the Non-Aligned Movement: challenges and vision

With the end of the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has lost its relevance and significance. Many believed that the international system was moving towards a permanent unipolar new world order. The la...

Authors: S. I. Keethaponcalan

Piracy off the coast of Somalia: implications for China’s maritime security

Piracy off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean region has become a significant non-traditional security challenge to many nations. The increasing number of such attacks as a result of ...

Authors: Manickam Venkataraman

Relocating labour-intensive manufacturing firms from China to Southeast Asia: a preliminary investigation

China’s rise as a “world factory” since the late 1970s has been attributed to the strategic coupling of local assets in the coastal regions, viz. Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in the gl...

Authors: Chun Yang

Sub-Saharan Africa’s engagement with emerging partners: opportunities and challenges

The aim of the paper is to analyze the economic impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) engagement with emerging partners (China, India and Brazil BICs) and to determine the opportunities and challenges of the in...

Authors: Samah S. A. Elmorsy

Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India

The paper explores climate change induced hydro hazards and its impact on tribal communities in Majuli (largest river island of Brahmaputra River Basin). The island has been experiencing recurrent floods, eros...

Authors: Debojyoti Das

“Environmentalism of the poor”: the Tipaimukh Dam, ecological disasters and environmental resistance beyond borders

The Indian government recently resumed the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam on the Barak River just 1 km north of Bangladesh’s north-eastern border. The construction work was stalled in March 2007 in the wake...

Authors: Md Saidul Islam and Md Nazrul Islam

Conceptualizing environmental governance on the GBM basin

River water sharing is an issue that is dealt by the South Asian neighboring countries for the last four decades. Water management of Ganges–Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) basin is a controversial issue, which is no...

Authors: Marufa Akter

Erratum to: Volume 2 of Bandung: Journal of the Global South

Authors:

The need for community inclusion in water basin governance in Bangladesh

In this paper we focus on the principle of community inclusion in water and ecological resource governance and document the negative impacts of its absence, in Chapra village, Bangladesh, on sustainable develo...

Authors: M. Anwar Hossen and John R. Wagner

Political history of Farakka Barrage and its effects on environment in Bangladesh

Soon after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, India took initiative to construct a barrage on its side of the Ganges and commissioned it in 1975. In the past few decades, many of the 54 Bangladeshi Riv...

Authors: Mohammad Abul Kawser and Md. Abdus Samad

Effective supervision of inland capture fisheries of Bangladesh and its hurdles in managing the resources

Community-based approaches have gained significant attention in inland open water fisheries management in Bangladesh. This article focuses on the challenges and opportunities of the inland open water fishery r...

Authors: A. K. M. Firoz Khan, M. G. Mustafa and M. Niamul Naser

The US hegemony, East Asia and global governance

This article studies the US hegemony with particular focus on its dominant role in East Asia and compares conventional thoughts with different views provided by the two books reviewed. Reich and Lebow consider...

Authors: Min-Hua Chiang

Not just another crapshoot development: the challenges and opportunities of modelling after Las Vegas and Macao as an economic development strategy in the 21st century

Recent decades highlight an extraordinary growth of casino gambling all over the world. In the race to build casino-cities, particularly to reap economic and social benefits, most aspirers look to replicate th...

Authors: Paul Vinod Khiatani

The challenges facing the global south: perspectives from the Philippines

International Relations scholarship highlights the differences of the countries in the global south. The postcolonial histories of countries herein give rise to unique experiences that push them to consolidate...

Authors: Charmaine G. Misalucha

Philippine-US relations: the relevance of an evolving alliance

The Philippines and the United States maintain close ties that are grounded in a Mutual Defense Treaty signed in 1951. Security cooperation has been a hallmark despite evolving dynamics in the bilateral relati...

Authors: Ava Patricia C. Avila and Justin Goldman

Disability-inclusive electoral systems: analyzing the Philippine electoral policy using the disability convention (DisCo) policy framework

For more than a century now, the Philippines has been at the forefront of democracy in the Southeast Asian region. Since the early 1990s, the country has sought to institutionalize democratic processes, which ...

Authors: John Paul P. Cruz

Overseas Filipino workers in conflict zones: narratives of Filipino nurses in Libya

This paper examines the risk perception of Filipino nurses who worked in Libya during the height of post-2011 crisis. The narratives reveal that Filipino nurses took advantage of the massive hiring campaign or...

Authors: Ron Bridget T. Vilog and Marie Donna M. Ballesteros

Achieving human security for migrants: the limits of state policies and migration-development initiatives

The Philippines is one of the top migrant sending countries and is often lauded as a model migrant country due to its skilled migrant labor force, high remittance rates and forward-thinking government policies...

Authors: Benjamin A. San Jose

The entrapment of asymmetry: the Philippines between the US and China

This paper aims to analyze the asymmetric dilemma facing the Philippines and China in the South China Sea tensions. Among American East Asian allies, the Philippines seems to stand on the frontline between two...

Authors: Elaine Tolentino and Myungsik Ham

Inaugural Editorial: ‘Envisioning south–south relations and development: past, present and futures’

Authors: Pak Nung Wong

Distributive politics at play in Harare, Zimbabwe: case for housing cooperatives

This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing that in the absence of state capacity to provide for housing, housing cooperatives have emerged and controlled la...

Authors: Innocent Chirisa, Elmond Bandauko and Nyasha Takawira Mutsindikwa

Rethinking the Bandung conference in an Era of ‘unipolar liberal globalization’ and movements toward a ‘multipolar politics’

In April 1955, a historic conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia. Political leaders from 29 Asian and African countries gathered on the initiative of the leaders from China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and ...

Authors: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

Behind and beyond Bandung: historical and forward-looking reflections on south-south cooperation

In their respective struggles for liberation the Asians and Africans, as oppressed people, joined forces in the first half of the 20th century by forming several pre-Bandung organizations. On the African side ...

Authors: N’Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba

Locating the ‘East’ in the Global South: question of self image in traditions and transitions

This paper attempts to explore the socio-political and economic dimensions of increasingly becoming popular rise of the Global South. It is argued that the slogan of the rise of Global South which seemingly im...

Authors: Muhammad Faisal Awan

The Ganges Basin management and community empowerment

This paper explores the ecological effects of the top-down Ganges Basin water management systems in Chapra, Bangladesh, based on my ethnographic fieldwork^a data collected in 2011-12. An example of this top-down s...

Authors: Mohhamed Anwar Hossen

For richer, for poorer: China embraces global poverty reduction?

Has China embraced global poverty reduction? To what extent has it done so? China faces three paradoxes in trying to alleviate poverty: first, the country is on the whole getting richer, becoming one of the la...

Authors: Gerald Chan

Publisher’s Note to: Volume 2 of Bandung: Journal of the Global South

Authors: Springer ᅟ

New donors, same old practices? South-South Cooperation of Latin American emerging donors

Foreign development assistance has been widely used for the last 60 years. In spite of changing conditions in the geopolitical scene and the increasing number of new development actors, development assistance ...

Authors: Carmen Robledo

Determinants of trade intensity of Egypt with COMESA Countries

Egypt has joined to COMESA since May 1998 in order to promote its economic relations with the rest of member states, especially the trade relations, so the aim of the paper is to assess COMESA regional integra...

Authors: Samah SA Elmorsy

The dynamics of China-Ethiopia trade relations: economic capacity, balance of trade & trade regimes

China’s trade with Ethiopia currently at 1.3 billion USD annually is expected to rise to US$3 billion by 2015. This not only informs the level of bilateral trade ties that Ethiopia has had with China as compar...

Authors: Manickam Venkataraman and Solomon M Gofie

Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures

Climate change poses severe threats to developing countries. Scientists predict entire states (e.g. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Maldives) will become inhabitable. People living in these states have...

Authors: Eberhard Weber

Constructing the social democratic developmental state in Africa: lessons from the “Global South”

Since the dawn of the post-colonial era in the various regions of the “Global South,” including Africa, the appropriate role of the state in the development process has been a frontier issue. The resulting deb...

Authors: George Klay Kieh Jr

North–South relations and human rights

There are apparent differences between the developed North and the economically weak South. The relations between the North and South are marked by dichotomies and in order to deal with the challenges posed by...

Authors: Soosaipillai I Keethaponcalan

Ethnic moralities and reciprocity: towards an ethic of South-South relations

Normative critiques of South-South relations assess the extent to which solidarity and cooperation are achieved among partner countries. However, they tend to overlook the role of inter-ethnic tensions in part...

Authors: Jozon A Lorenzana

Beyond dependency: the promise of Confucianism in Post-Westphalia International relations

The landscape of post-colonial development is marked by deepening dependency of the developing states on the core states consisted mainly of western developed countries. The continuous widening of the north–so...

Authors: Ricky Wai-kay Yue