... to be empty promises in the face of the unwillingness of the Western countries to give up their neo-colonial practices of siphoning off the riches of the world for their own benefit. You can simply look at the statistics to see how many promises to fund development in the Global South and transfer environmentally friendly technologies have been honoured.
The current UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, just like Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon before him, has put forward an initiative under the slogan of giving a new start ...
... focuses on digital sovereignty and bridging the digital divide, combating digital neo-colonialism and data neo-colonialism to make the digital space truly inclusive, placing these issues as its top priority. Not wishing to politicize the dialogue, many global South countries joined the Pact with the GDC as its annex, expressing solidarity with the Secretary-General in his effort to overcome the UN systemic crisis, especially since the Pact is non-binding.
Russia did not support the GDC, distancing itself from the ...
... summit attracted many heads of partner nations as well as CEOs of major international organizations. Clearly, the Russian leadership intends to demonstrate that, despite continuous efforts by the West, Russia is not isolated in the international community and it can claim a lot of friends and partners in the Global South.
Even more importantly, Russia did it homework to the extent possible in paving the way to the summit with numerous ministerials, official consultations at lower levels, parliamentary, business and expert meetings. At all these events they ...
... corners of the world is likely to remain low. The whole idea of the state-building assistance has been compromised by explicit failures or recent attempts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia or Haiti. Multiple domestic problems in the developed countries will 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 system though de-jure, they will remain legitimate international actors. However, this exclusion will have its limits: ‘failed ...
... the regional level, striking examples of revisionist behaviour are modern Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of South Africa, Algeria, small countries in post-French Africa or Azerbaijan in the former USSR, North Korea, and Brazil. All these countries strive to correct specific and important elements of the international order at the local or global level, i.e. in one way or another they are trying to achieve its revision.
In general, the question of the Global South’s significance in world affairs is revisionist in nature, since it consists of revising and correcting the rules of the game on the world stage in favour of the interests of a certain group of states that previously did not have the internal ...
Despite calls from the United Nations, the Global North does not deem it necessary to change its sanctions policies
March 2021 marks a year since the World Health Organization announced that the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 had turned into a pandemic. Despite ...
... of power presupposes the reform of international institutions created mostly by the Global North, including changes to the top management of the United Nations, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund. The redistribution of resources means restructuring the international debt accumulated by the Global South, writing them off at least partially, increasing financial aid programmes for developing states and changing the terms of global trade so that the South will gradually move up global value chains.
Just like the classics of Marxism-Leninism ...
