Global Governance and The Political South Continuity and Change In and Beyond the BRICS

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

List of contributors

Abbreviations and acronyms

PART I

Introduction

Connecting Embedded Conceptual Debates and ‘Zeitenwende’: The Trajectory of International Order from the Perspective of the Global South

MAREK REWIZORSKI & ANDREW F. COOPER

PART II

Global South, Continuity and Change –  Global Trends and Perspectives

1.     Southern World Order? How the Domestic Politics of the BRICS Countries and Russia’s Ukraine War Shape Global Governance

STEFAN SCHIRM

2.     From Pluralism to Contested Pluralism in Global Governance

JONATHAN LUCKHURST

3.     Contesting Institutional Design from a Global South Perspective: The Debate over ‘Big’ and ‘Small’ Membership from Bandung to the BRICS/NDB

              ANDREW F. COOPER

4.     Bound to Abstain? The BRICS Response to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

MAREK REWIZORSKI

5.     The Responses of Emerging Global South Powers to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for the Global Distribution of Power

JAKUB ZAJĄCZKOWSKI & SAROJ KUMAR ARYAL

6.     Whose Norms and Values - Contestation or Compliance? The Emerging Global South Powers Towards Norms and Principles on the Use of Force in International Relations

DOROTA HEIDRICH

PART III

Global South, Continuity and Change –  Regional/National Trends and Perspectives

7.     BRICS and Their Influence in South America: The Costs and Risks of a Lack of Leadership

JUAN CARLOS LADINES AZALIA & NIALL DUGGAN

8.     China and the Evolution of the BRICS New Development Bank

JIEJIN ZHU

9.     Brazil and the Challenges of Global Governance in the Face of the Rise of the Global South: Continuities, Hesitations, and the Quest for Leadership

WILLIAM DALDEGAN & CARLOS EDUARDO CARVALHO

10.  Global (dis) order and India’s quest for global South leadership- an initial survey

SHANTANU CHAKRABARTI

11.  Indonesia's middle power diplomacy during COVID-19: A multi-pronged approach

RANDY W. NANDYATAMA, IRFAN ARDHANI & RIZKY ALIF ALVIAN

12.   Lost in Ambiguity: Georgia's Stance towards the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

ARKADIUSZ MODRZEJEWSKI, LASHA BAZHUNAISHVILI & ZVIAD ABASHIDZE

13.  Transformative Times: Saudi Arabia's Evolving Foreign Policy Amid Global Crises

WOJCIECH GRABOWSKI

14.  Investment Agreement in Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership; Implication in Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

           PORNCHAI WISUTTISAK & SANG CHUL PARK

Biography

Andrew F. Cooper is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and an Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research. He teaches in the areas of the Theory and Practice of Diplomacy, National Perspectives on Global Governance, International Political Economy, and Comparative and Canadian Foreign Policy. Holding a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) from Oxford University, he has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, The Australian National University, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He was Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Southern California in 2009, Fulbright Scholar in the Western Hemisphere Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC in 2000 and the Leger Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1993-1994.

Marek Rewizorski is a political scientist and lawyer, Professor at the Institute of Political Science, and Head of the Department of Global and Regional Studies at the University of Gdańsk. Principal investigator in research grants SONATA (2011-2014) and OPUS (2017-2020) awarded by the National Science Centre in Poland, member of EISA and ISA, expert of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and National Centre of Science (NCN), visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (June 2018).