Global South Agency in International Politics

Part I – Theorizing Agency

1. Introduction: Situating Global South Agency in International Politics

Lembe Tiky

2. South–South Cooperation and the Theory of Heterarchy: Rethinking Global Interaction

Nene-Lomotey Kuditchar

3. Epistemic Agency and the Decolonization of Global Knowledge

Benjamin Mua

Part II – Institutional and Normative Agency in Global Governance

4. Global Governance Architecture and the Agency of the Global South: The Role of Developing-Country Coalitions in International Organizations

Anusha Lall

5. Developing Countries and Multilateral Diplomacy: Forging Effective Participation

Amr Aljowailly

6. Global South Agency through Humanitarianism: Rethinking Solidarity from Latin America

Oscar Gomez

7. African Union Agency in International Justice: Toward an African Justice Architecture

Rui Garrido, Francesca Mercurio & Mojana Vargas

8. Agency of African States in the ICC’s Intervention Strategy: Contesting Global Justice from Within

Ai Kihara-Hunt & Kenta Idenoue

9. Small Island Developing States as Norm Entrepreneurs in Global Climate Governance

Suan A. Samuels

Part III – Economic Agency and Development Governance

10. Agency and the Global South: The Power of Local Actors in International Development Cooperation

Jennifer Roglà

11. Repositioning the Global South for Agency: Rethinking the National Development Agenda

Raymond K. Awadzi

12. Thucydides’ Trap and the Resurgence of African Agency in Multilateral Institutions: Southern Africa’s Demands for Debt Relief as Colonial Reparations

Kennedy Manduna

13. BRICS: What Agency in the Global South?

Alexander Sergunin & Maria Lagutina

14. Revisiting Prospects for Global Environmental Collaboration: India’s Role in Facilitating the Solar Energy Transition

Sailaja Nandigama and Agin K. Varghese

Part IV – Security Agency and Governance of International Order

15. The Global South and the Making of the Post–WWII International Order

Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad

16. Steering Global Security: African Agency in Shaping International Policy

Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

17. Alliances, Alignments, and Agency in Global Security Governance: The Case of Vietnam

Barbara Kratiuk

18. From “Citizen-Soldier” to “Expert-Soldier”: Colombian Agency in Transnational Security Expertise

Manuela Trindade Viana

19. Gendering Security Governance: Women’s Agency in Peacebuilding and Global Security Agendas

Melvis Ndiloseh

Part V – National Pathways of Agency: Case Studies of Emerging Powers

20. Brazil’s Diplomatic Agency in Food Production

Guiherme Casaroes

21. Educating Influence: China’s Talent Diplomacy and the Arenas of Global South Agency
Zhu Zhang

22. India’s Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: From Non-Alignment to Strategic Agency

Mohanan Pillai

23. Negotiating Mobility: Nigeria’s Agency in Global Migration Governance

Michael Ihuoma Ogu and Uzzibi Irimya

24. Health Diplomacy and Emerging Agency: Turkey’s Role in Global Health Governance

Abraham Minko

Biography

Lembe Tiky is an Associate Professor of International Relations and comparative Politics at Fairfield University and a Research Fellow at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. He holds a BA from the University of Yaoundé, an M.A. from American University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research lies at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, focusing on democratization, development, human rights, African security issues, and agency in global politics. Dr. Tiky is the author of two monographs and co-editor of a volume on Cameroon. His recent work has appeared in International Studies Perspectives, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, The African Review, and Africa Spectrum.

Melvis M. Ndiloseh is an Associate Professor at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC), University of Yaoundé. She has fifteen years of experience in teaching, research, policy analysis, and programme management with organizations including The Carter Center, International IDEA, the AU, the UN, SIPRI, OSIWA and Social Impact. Her research focuses on democratic governance, human rights, transitional justice, and peace and security. She was a 2017 Yale World Fellow and holds a PhD in Politics, Human Rights, and Sustainability.