Rising Powers and SouthSouth Cooperation
This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called rising powers of the global South to offer an alternative to contemporary global economic and political governance through emergent forms of SouthSouth cooperation. In contrast to the Third Worldism of the past, the contemporary rising powers share in common the fact that their recent growth owes much to their extensive and increasingly international engagement, rather than partial withdrawal from the global economy. However, they are nonetheless openly critical of the perceived bias towards the global North in the dominant institutions of global governance, and seek to alter the global status quo to enhance the influence of the global South. Contributions to this volume address the question of whether such engagement, particularly on a SouthSouth basis, can be categorised as a win-win relationship, or whether we are already seeing the emergence of new forms of competitive rivalry and neo-dependency in action. What kind of theoretical approaches and conceptual tools do we need to best answer such questions? To what extent do new groupings such as BRICS suggest a real alternative to the dominance of the West and of the neoliberal economic globalization paradigm? What possible alternatives exist within contemporary forms of SouthSouth cooperation? This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.
Kevin Gray is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous books on global governance and labour, published with Routledge.
Barry K. Gills is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the founding Editor of Globalizations journal and the book series Rethinking Globalizations, and is a member of the editorial board of Third World Quarterly.
Thirdworlds
Edited by Shahid Qadir, University of London
THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.
THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those Souths within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.
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Rising Powers and SouthSouth Cooperation
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Kevin Gray and Barry K. Gills
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