... 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 ...
