Short Abstract

As Northern dominance of the world order implodes, new actors in the global South appropriate and reinvent the ideas, institutions and political economies once associated with the global North. This panel explores challenges and opportunities for the New South in contemporary global development.

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As Northern dominance of the world order implodes, new actors in the global South appropriate and reinvent the ideas, institutions and political economies once associated with the global North. The slashing of aid budgets across the global North coupled with US withdrawal from multilateralism poses both challenges and opportunities for the New South.

"The New South in global development" panel examines the challenges and opportunities for multilateral cooperation; aid and assistance; and wider politics of progressive social change amidst the implosion of the Northern dominance of the world order. As once-colonised states and societies of the global South are asserting their presence in world affairs, including global development, and new actors in the global South appropriate and reinvent the ideas, institutions and political economies once associated with the global North, the prospects for Southern-led developmentalism are unprecedented. At the same time, slashing aid budgets across the global North and US withdrawal from multilateralism pose new challenges and incipient opportunities for the New South.

Against such a backdrop, this panel invites reflections on the following themes:

1. The agency of states and societies in the global South in rising to the challenge of shouldering responsibilities for global development

2. The connections forged by Southern agents with their Northern counterparts in meeting the challenges of global development

3. The diversity of actors within the global South, especially in the context of a divergence between a power South and a poor South.

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