1st Edition

Rising Powers and South-South Cooperation

Edited By Kevin Gray, Barry Gills Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alternative to contemporary global economic and political governance through emergent forms of South-South cooperation. In contrast to the Third Worldism of the past, the contemporary rising powers share in common the fact that their recent growth owes... Read more
  1. Introduction: South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South, Kevin Gray and Barry K. Gills
  2. BRICS, developing countries and global governance, Deepak Nayyar
  3. Emerging Southern powers and new forms of South–South cooperation: Ethiopia’s strategic engagement with China and India, Fantu Cheru
  4. BRICS banking and the debate over sub-imperialism, Patrick Bond
  5. Beyond ‘BRICS’: ten theses on South–South cooperation in the twenty-first century, Thomas Muhr
  6. Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy, Soyeun Kim and Kevin Gray
  7. Repositioning in global governance: horizontal and vertical shifts amid pliable neoliberalism, James H. Mittelman
  8. Ethno-territorial rights and the resource extraction boom in Latin America: do constitutions matter? Markus Kroger and Rickard Lalander
  9. The prospects for transnational advocacy across the IBSA bloc – a view from Brazil Maria Guadalupe, Moog Rodrigues
  10. Beyond varieties of development: disputes and alternatives, Eduardo Gudynas
  11. Viewpoint The resurgence of South–South cooperation, Branislav Gosovic
  12. Symposium Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, Barry K. Gills

Biography

Barry K. Gills is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the founding Editor of Globalizations journal and the book series Rethinking Globalizations, and is a member of the editorial board of Third World Quarterly.

Kevin Gray is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous books on global governance and labour, published with Routledge.