The Journal of Global South Studies is a probing scholarly journal that examines development problems and issues as well as pioneering efforts in the developing world. It is an interdisciplinary journal that explores current and historic issues facing the Global South region of the world, including economic, political, social, military, and international relationships.
Current Issue
Vol. 42 No. 1 (2025): Spring 2025
Published: 2025-03-19
Articles
Locally Owned Private Security Companies in Overlapping Markets
The Case of KASS in South Sudan
1–43
AbstractWhat type of markets for private security are created in personalist autocracies with large international sectors? Are locally owned private...
“All for One and None for All”?
A Regime Theory Reappraisal of South–South Cooperation’s Geopolitical Erosion
44–66
AbstractIn its heyday, South–South Cooperation (SSC) epitomized (among others) geopolitical contestation—from its genesis at the 1955 Bandung conference...
"A Man of Vision as Godfather”
Felix Houphouet Boigny and Biafra’s Struggle for Secession
67–86
AbstractBiafra’s troops fought Nigerian soldiers for thirty months. In its inception, Nigeria had hoped for an early victory, but the Biafrans kept the...
Book Reviews
Desrosiers, Marie-Eve. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide.
87–89
AbstractReview of: Desrosiers, Marie-Eve. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge...
Makina, Daniel, and Dominic Pasura, eds. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration.
89–92
AbstractReview of: Makina, Daniel, and Dominic Pasura, eds. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration. London: Routledge, 2023.
Patterson, Amy S., Tracy Kuperus, and Megan Hershey. Africa’s Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship.
92–96
AbstractReview of: Patterson, Amy S., Tracy Kuperus, and Megan Hershey. Africa’s Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming...
Swarr, Amanda Lock. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine.
96–99
AbstractReview of: Swarr, Amanda Lock. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine....
Abidde, Sabella O., Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz, eds. Xenophobia and Nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
99–102
AbstractReview of: Abidde, Sabella O., Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz, eds. Xenophobia and Nativism in Africa, Latin America, and...
Adamovsky, Ezequiel. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present.
103–104
AbstractReview of: Adamovsky, Ezequiel. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...
Codebò, Agnese. The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.
104–106
AbstractCodebò, Agnese. The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires. Pittsburgh: University of...
Fregoso, Rosa-Linda. The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide.
107–109
AbstractReview of: Fregoso, Rosa-Linda. The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Skrabut, Kristin. Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru.
109–110
AbstractSkrabut, Kristin. Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.
Yannakakis, Yanna. Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico.
110–112
AbstractReview of: Yannakakis, Yanna. Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...
Yingling, Charlton W. Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions.
112–114
AbstractReview of: Yingling, Charlton W. Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions. Austin: University of Texas...
Kyong-McClain, Jeff, and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, eds. From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange.
115–117
AbstractReview of: Kyong-McClain, Jeff, and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, eds. From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on...
Sadri, Houman A. Conflict and Cooperation in the South Caucasus Region: From Theory to Policy.
117–119
AbstractReview of: Sadri, Houman A. Conflict and Cooperation in the South Caucasus Region: From Theory to Policy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,...
Sohal, Amar. The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition.
120–122
AbstractReview of: Sohal, Amar. The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.