The Global South and the Future of World Order Multipolarity, Agency, and Inclusion

Introduction

Tom Casier, Piotr Dutkiewicz and Jing Men

Part 1: Foundations and Theoretical Perspectives

1. Is There a Global South?  A Conceptual Examination.

Pablo Kalmanovitz

2. The Global South: An Ontological Analysis

Wang Chuanxing

3. Inherent Ambiguities on the Road to a Just and Inclusive Global Order

Malte Brosig

4. Epistemic Justice and the New World Order: Beyond Liberal Internationalism and Western Hegemony.

Lord Mawuko-Yevugah

5. Towards an Alternative Global Order: The Conundrum of Decolonial Futures in the Global South

Swati Parashar

6. Reconstituting the Global Order: Will Civilization Trump the Nation-State?

Ravi Dutt Bajpai

7. Multipolarity without Order: The Constraints on Global South Protest Action in a Diverging International System

Mehdi Sanaei

Part 2: Regional and Strategic Perspectives from the South

8. The Two Souths and Anti-imperialism

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

9. Two foreign policy roads for Latin America amid US–China hegemonic competition?

Isidro Morales

10. Crisis and transformation of the Neoliberal Multilateral Order of Cooperation. A view from South America

Ernesto Vivares and Juan Pablo Salazar

11. Beyond Unipolarity and the Liberal International Order: Unpacking Latin America and the Caribbean’s role in the Global Reordering

Federmán Rodríguez

12. Sovereignty Institutions and Human Security in the AU and ASEAN

Denis Dogah & Ronaldo Au-Yeung

13. Agency of the Lesser States: Asean and an Inclusive Regional Order in East Asia

Wei Ling

Part 3: Sectoral Cases and Global Engagements

14. Revisionism and Financial Competition in the Grand Split: How far can strategic realignment go?

Diana Tussie

15. Financing for Development:  Priorities for the Global South

José Antonio Ocampo and Karla Daniela González

16. The “Global South” in the governance of global commons: the case of the BBNJ

Li Lingqun

17. For a Pacifist, Developmental, Anti-imperialist non-alignment

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Part 4: Conclusion

18. Contours of a Plural Future: Agency, Inclusion, and Multipolarity in Global Order Reimagined

Piotr Dutkiewicz, Tom Casier, Jing Men

Biography

Piotr Dutkiewicz is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He served as Editor-in-Chief of a 19-volume series on Local and Regional Development in Poland (1986–1989) and as editor or co-editor and contributor to 11 other academic books published by Routledge, NYU Press, and Edward Elgar. He has also served as Co-Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management (2008–2025), Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies (2003–2008), and Director of a large-scale CIDA-funded projects in Ukraine and Russia. Professor Dutkiewicz has played a prominent role in fostering international academic collaboration with the EU and Russia. His contributions have been recognized through numerous distinctions, including two honorary doctorates and awards for research excellence, teaching, and public service.

Tom Casier is a Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he holds the Chair in Global Politics of Europe and is the Head of the Department of International Relations and International Organisations. Previously, he was a Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS). He served as Academic Director of BSIS from 2014 to 2017 and was also the Director of the Global Europe Centre. Additionally, he held a Jean Monnet Chair and offered policy advice to various institutions. Tom Casier’s research primarily concentrates on Russian foreign policy and the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours, as well as on hegemony and global transformation.

Jing Men holds the position of Professor and Director of the Centre for European Studies at East China Normal University. She has a remarkable career bridging Europe and China. She spent over 20 years in Belgium. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She worked at the College of Europe as the Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations and the Director of the EU-China Research Centre. During her tenure, she was the first and only professor of Chinese background at the College. Her work included offering one of the earliest courses on EU-China relations. In 2009, she founded the EU-China Observer, an electronic journal dedicated to research articles and policy analysis on EU-China relations. Additionally, she authored and edited six books in English, three special issues in academic journals, and three books in Chinese. Her book The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU, and the USA: A New Global Order, published by Routledge in 2020, received the 2021 Choice Outstanding Award.