... long-lasting solutions. Instead, the Biden Administration implicitly or explicitly suggests that the Global South should simply subscribe to all the positions already carved in stone in Washington.
As it was the case in 1990s, the US approach to the Global South is not very different from its approach to US Western allies and partners: both groups of nations appear to be not full-fledged sovereign decision-makers, but rather as disciplined decision-takers with somewhat limited sovereignty. This is not a very appealing vision of the future world order for ...
... separatism will easily spread, and the goal of eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
On the other hand, the appetite ... ... also limit their capacities or willingness to perform a large-scale redistribution of resources from the Global North to the Global South. This might lead to a situation, when large areas in the Global South will be de-facto eluded from the international ...
... restored in global affairs relatively quickly looks practically insoluble: the main actors can no longer afford the luxury of a direct military confrontation with each other, while indirect confrontations (NATO – Russia, U.S. – China, Collective West – Global South) can last for a very long time without the ultimate winner revealed. The stakes for both sides in such confrontations are very high, while the options for escalation with impunity are numerous. It is also difficult to fix the updated rules ...
... Europe in a number of areas. According to his logic, there is a “progressive revision of our international order, its principles and various organizational forms,” overlapped with the “resentment politics”, anti-colonialist attitudes and anti-Westernism in the global South. Such sentiments, Macron recognized, are spreading in response to the double standards “that we have sometimes encouraged,” adapting the international law to the narrow interests of the West and forgetting the sovereignty of other peoples ...
... escalating conflict between Russia and the West.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
This persistent resistance to the continuous pressure from the West calls for explanations. One of such explanations is a wide spread perception in the Global South that the Western approach to Ukraine is a clear manifestation of double standards. Not only did the West almost completely fail to resolve many bloody conflicts outside the Euro-Atlantic space, for instance, in Yemen or in Ethiopia, but it should even take direct ...
... alliances are forged and what kind of implications will it have for the future course of the global economy?
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
Arguably, friend-shoring is nothing new. Indeed, the Cold War period was precisely the pattern ... .... Another was the protracted period of trade restrictions and sanctions applied against some of the largest economies of the Global South such as China. As
argued
by political analyst Azhar Azam, “after reshoring and onshoring, friend-shoring is … ...
... of trust can we talk about if a fierce sanctions war continues along with endless talks about global solidarity between the West and the East, with the last ties between NATO and Russia severed and with new anti-Chinese blocs and partnerships established?... ...
Re-Sovereignization of the Nation State or Globalization 3.0?
Third, we could discuss trust between the global North and the global South. Does the global South have any reason to count on generosity and bounty from the global North, though? All this ...