... or as its partner, should work together with the Global South in the international order building and global governance. The Global South is not an entity and is not clearly defined; it is internally diverse and does not have exactly the same aspirations; ... ... mechanism, but it is possible to form a grid-like form of cooperation that is multilevel, multidisciplinary and multiformat.
The SCO and BRICS are originally platforms for political, economic, security and humanistic cooperation among their participants, ...
... in Latin America and the Eurasian economies from the Global South. The Eurasian constellation of developing economies can be formed on the basis of the aggregation of the main regional integration blocs such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), ASEAN, SAARC, EAEU. Such an extended platform across all three continents of the Global South may be termed as TRIA (
Trilateral Intercontinental Alliance
) and it comprises nearly 125-130 developing economies (depending on the exact methodological approach of including the Eurasian economies). This second sequence of extending the ...
... that bring together the main regional integration blocks of the developing world.
Today the evolution of the platforms of the Global South is at a crucial juncture: throughout the past several years significant steps have been undertaken by developing ... ... platforms – in Africa it was the creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), while in Eurasia the expansion of SCO membership was accompanied by the creation of RCEP. The next stage in this process would be to link up all of the pan-continental ...
... exercised by the platforms of the Global South would be avoidance of a core-periphery pattern while it may be tempting to look at the RICs (Russia-India-China) as the Eurasian core of the Global South, it will be imperative to ensure due diversity and scope for inclusiveness in the operation of Global South platforms.
Todays global governance is a frail colossus with feet of clay the rising weight of the Global South and the diversity of platforms and alliances across the globe cannot be duly supported by an institutional framework that is circumscribed ...