BY EVA BUSZA1 In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of a core group of states from the Global South which are on track to become the future center of global economic dynamism and power: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).2 Today, these countries account for approximately 40 per cent of the [...]
BY BRIAN FINLAY Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history — the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up. Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA 1 The last two decades have witnessed fundamental shifts in international economic dynamics and the gradual reshaping of global political relationships and collaborations. In particular, emerging powers in the global south are now playing a much more prominent role in the global economy and are beginning to rewrite transnational political frameworks. As their [...]
BY SEAN W. BURGES One of the hot potatoes being passed around the policy branches of most major international development agencies is the question of what to do about the rising group of development actors who are not part of the exclusive club that meets in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance [...]
BY APRIL R. BICCUM Global poverty has become an important global issue in the last 20 years and activism on behalf of the global poor has become increasingly popular. Both a symptom and effect of this popularity, is the increased involvement of individual Hollywood celebrities, activists and advocates in development and the increased visibility of [...]
BY DEBORAH BRÄUTIGAM On hearing of one major Chinese deal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an editor at the Financial Times wrote: “Beijing has thrown down its most direct challenge yet to the West’s architecture for aiding Africa’s development.” I think he was right. This challenge is not just about low environmental, governance, [...]
BY RAMKISHEN RAJAN According to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), “a number of developing countries have emerged as significant sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in other developing countries, and their investments are now considered a new and important source of capital and production know-how, especially for host [...]
BY DAVID H. SHINN Since the end of the Cold War, western political engagement in Africa has tended to be static. There have been some important exceptions such as the international intervention in Somalia led initially by the United States in the early and mid-1990s, support for achieving a comprehensive peace agreement between northern and [...]
BY SIBA N. GROVOGUI The term Global South (GS) gained currency at the conclusion of the Cold War. It is not technically a directional designation, or a point due south to a fixed north. It is a symbolic designation of former colonial entities engaged in political projects of decolonization towards the realization of a postcolonial [...]
BY DAVID M. HART THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE Over the past two or three decades, knowledge-intensive industries, such as semiconductor chip design and biotechnology-based drug discovery, have undergone a global restructuring. Globalization now extends beyond markets for goods, unskilled labor, and conventional finance into markets for technology, [...]