Global South

International NGOs: Legitimacy, Mandates and Strategic Innovation

Hans Peter Schmitz • Aug 26 2020 • Articles

Profound changes in how INGOs frame their actions have fundamentally shifted perceptions of their legitimacy. For critics, they no longer do what their original purpose was.

Opinion – Fears and Failures: Global Governance and the Crisis in Cameroon

Michelle Sanson • Aug 25 2020 • Articles

What makes people defend a prevailing system which is deeply flawed? Fear. Fear that power may be exercised in a manner they do not agree with, that freedoms may be lost.

Opinion – Revisiting Paradiplomacy in the Context of COVID-19

Mariano Alvarez and Nahuel Oddone • Aug 5 2020 • Articles

If the local dimension is called to occupy a relevant space in the international arena, it will depend on the effort and creativity of local actors.

From the Third World to the Global South

Alina Sajed • Jul 27 2020 • Articles

The idea of Global South could not have emerged without the conceptual work done by the term Third World, and indeed without the legacy left by its historical landmarks.

State-Building, Sovereignty and Migration Management in the Global South

Fiona B. Adamson and Gerasimos Tsourapas • Jul 22 2020 • Articles

State migration policy has a long history of being used as a means of creating or preserving a particular (often racialized) form of national identity.

The Global South as a Political Project

Luciana Ballestrin • Jul 3 2020 • Articles

The Global South is a political project which faces several challenges and is permanently disputed by progressive and regressive forces in the multipolar context.

Opinion — Paradiplomacy in Times of Pandemic: The Paths Ahead

Mariano Alvarez • Jul 1 2020 • Articles

Although the Covid-19 pandemic poses challenges for states and international relations, it has already shown that paradiplomacy has an important role to play

The Global South is in Exile

Mariana Kalil • May 17 2020 • Articles

The Global South is not anywhere specific, neither a specific race, ethnicity, gender or epistemology, but everyone who is a marginalized thinker denouncing their condition while yielding more feasible thoughts.

The Global South in Times of Crisis: A China–Africa Relations View

Ilaria Carrozza • May 14 2020 • Articles

Developing countries have an opportunity to provide the rest of the world with best practices of solidarity and generosity. A younger and more digitally connected population is among the positive signs of this.

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