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The Rise of the Global South

Author : Justin Dargin
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814397822
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Global South written by Justin Dargin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the geopolitical, economic and trade changes wrought with the increasing influence of the countries of the Global South in international affairs. The global role of the developing countries came to the forefront in 1974, when the United Nations General Assembly promulgated The New International Economic Order. Since then, the countries of the Global South, particularly China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Qatar, made an indelible impact upon the world's economic architecture. However, their true influence became starkly illustrated during the onset of the 2000s, when several seismic events occurred. The September Eleventh terrorist attacks — with the resultant debilitating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — extreme world commodity price increases and the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 all served to wrench the epicenter of global influence increasingly southward. While the developed countries of the Global North became mired in economic stagnation with problems associated with the global financial crisis, their collective influence waned. Since then, the world has been attempting to accommodate, somewhat unevenly, the rising geopolitical and economic clout of the Global South. This book presents a collection of scholarly articles that, taken together, functions as a primer on the workings of the immense global changes at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contents:Cooperation in the Global South: History and Process:How the South Was Born: Reflections on the Geography and Culture of Inequality (Anouar Majid)South–South Cooperation: A Counter-Hegemonic Movement? (Deniz Altinbaş)South–South Cooperation: A Bridge Between Regionalism and Globalization? (Rita Giacalone)Conflict and Resolution: Geostrategic Cooperation in Africa and the Arab/Islamic World:Africa and South–South Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges (Amadu Sesay, Olayode Kehinde Olusola, and Mashood Omotosho)Gaddafi's Southern Legacy: Ideology and Power Politics in Africa (Dennis Kumetat)The Gulf States and South–South Cooperation (Kristian Coates Ulrichsen)South–South Cooperation and the Impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb Region: Missed Opportunities and the Way Forward (Mhamed Biygautane and Nicolas Depetris Chauvin)Searching for an End Game in the West's Unwinnable Wars in the South: The Experience of Counter-Terrorism Strategies in a Selection of Muslim Countries (Marat Terterov, Marine Vallet, and Claudia Nocente)Trade, Tourism, and Migration as South–South Cooperation Drivers:Tourism, Sustainable Development, and Poverty Alleviation (Madan Bezbaruah)Migrants as Agents of South–South Cooperation: The Case of Chinese in Africa (Giles Mohan)Promoting Industrialization: Trade and Industrial Strategies for the Global South (Justin Dargin)South–South Cooperation in the WTO: Doha to Cancun (Adhip Chaudhuri)South–South Cooperation and Emerging Economies: Insights from Health Sector Cooperation between India and Brazil (Sachin Chaturvedi and Halla Thorsteinsdóttir) Readership: Graduate students and ambitious undergraduates in the field of international affairs. Non-experts interested in international relations. Keywords:Global South;Imperialism;Colonialism;Trade;Global North;Geopolitics;21st Century;Development;Underdevelopment;World Trade;BRIC;Developing;ResourcesKey Features:This book does not focus on merely one field; it covers philosophy, economics, geopolitics, and energyIt includes well-known experts who grant unique perspectives to the myriad concerns of South-South cooperationThe book reviews the historical development of South-South cooperation and investigates the linkage between globalization and South-South cooperation, as well as determines whether the dominant model of globalization assists this nascent growth or hinders it

The Rise of the Global South

Author : Justin Dargin
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814397814
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Global South written by Justin Dargin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the geopolitical, economic and trade changes wrought with the increasing influence of the countries of the Global South in international affairs. Since the introduction of the United Nations General Assembly's New International Economic Order, the countries of the Global South, particularly China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Qatar, made an indelible impact upon the world's economic architecture.

The Rise of the Global South

Author : Elijah Jong Fil Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610979702
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Global South written by Elijah Jong Fil Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Christianity has been experiencing an unprecedented historical transition from the West to the non-Western world. The leadership of global Christianity has taken on a new face since the twentieth century. Christendom in Europe and America has experienced a great decline while there has been a rise in Majority World Christianity. Churches in the Global South have given their voices to global Christianity through their leadership, world mission movements, and theology. The phenomenal church growth has risen from the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Pentecostalism has become the dominant force in global Christianity today. The Rise of the Global South examines the significance this shift has had on global Christianity by going through the history of Christianity in the West and the causes of the shift.

Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South

Author : Boike Rehbein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317514483
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South written by Boike Rehbein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the "kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is able to overcome the precarious dichotomy between universalism and relativism by relying on an original approach to the philosophy of science. With this approach, the focus is on the configurations embedded in the ethics of understanding, accommodation and learning and on their connections to broader social scientific critique. This book demands that the European social sciences make philosophical and methodological adaptations to the new realities of the social world by becoming more reflexive and, by extension, less Euro-centric.

The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South

Author : Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000885844
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South written by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study—adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective—to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South countries in the twenty-first century. From deforestation and the anti-vaccine movement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil to the massacre of religious minorities in Modi’s India, the rise of the radical right in the Global South is in the news every day. Not long ago, some of these countries were globally celebrated as emerging economies that consolidated vibrant democracies. Nonetheless, they never overcame structural problems including economic inequality, social violence, cultural conservatism, and political authoritarianism. Featuring case studies from Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa, and more generally from Africa and Latin America, this book analyses future scenarios and current alternatives to this political movement to the radical right. It proposes a shift of focus in examining such a trend, adopting a view from the Global South; conventional theoretical tools developed around the experience in Global North countries are not enough. The authors show that the radical right in the Global South should be analysed through specific lenses, considering national historical patterns of political and economic development and instability. They also warn that researching these countries may differ from contexts where democratic institutions are more reliable. This does not mean abandoning a transnational understanding of the radical right; rather, it calls for the opposite: the chapters examine how the radical right is invented, adapted, modified, and resisted in specific regions of the globe. This volume will be of interest to all those researching the radical right and the politics of development and the Global South.

Southern Exposure

Author : Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565491742
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Southern Exposure written by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling increasing poverty and inequality in the Global South (sometimes known as the third world) as "among our most urgent problems today," Thomas-Slayter seeks to explore the problems of globalization from the perspective of ordinary non-elite people of the South. After offering a brief history of imperialism and colonialism, she presents chapters looking at issues of globalization and the nation-state; human rights and international refugees; the role of international economic organizations in creating inequality; the links between population, the environment, and development; food security and global politics; and the rise of "anti-globalization" movements.

Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South

Author : Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137452269
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South by : Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner

Download or read book Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South written by Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of change in the international system, this book examines how non-traditional leading nations from the Global South have fared to date and what the chances are of their rise to continue. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the enthusiasm of observers of the international scene about the “rise of the rest” is waning as many countries that were expected to lead the evolving multipolar order are experiencing economic contraction and governance problems. In order to predict further developments, the contributors to this volume focus on the types and sources of the diplomatic strategies that must be executed by rising states if they are to preserve domestic advances as well as gain influence regionally and internationally. Through a comprehensive examination of case studies from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, they show that while there are commonalities among these rising states, unique domestic conditions, values, and traditions impact and predict diplomatic strategizing and the ability for sustained projection on the international scene.

China in the Global South

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811913447
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book China in the Global South written by Theodor Tudoroiu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scrutinizes the frequently ignored agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies. Contributors examine China’s presence in the Global South on a country-by-country basis, analyzing how various non-state and sub-state actors are responding to the rise of China and whether they are attracted by the cooperation models that China proposes or deterred by its new assertiveness. Contributions cover diverse and heterogeneous geographies of the Global South, ranging from Papua-New Guinea to Argentina and from Madagascar to the Russian Far East. Examining such diverse cases, contributors focus on two interrelated questions: What is the actual economic, political, and social impact of China’s growing presence in the Global South? And, critically, how do the citizens of the Global South understand and interpret China’s rise? Taken together, the case studies develop a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process of China’s inclusion into the economic, social, and political realities of the Global South. This book identifies and fills the gaps in the existing literature on China’s rise by offering a nuanced perspective on China’s relations with the countries of the Global South that captures such variables as social context, intersubjective meanings, and identities. By focusing China’s relations with the Global South, it also provides an important addition to the literature on international politics of development and China’s role in the transformation of the South-South cooperation.

World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture

Author : Corey R. Payne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807436
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture by : Corey R. Payne

Download or read book World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture written by Corey R. Payne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world faces extraordinary system-level challenges—from deep inequality and xenophobic nationalism to militarism and neofascism, from the refugee crisis and environmental degradation to upsurges of social unrest and escalating rivalries among powerful states. This book begins from the premise that world-systems analysis can be a powerful tool for the study of these problems, with the potential to overcome the methodological and theoretical limitations of other social science perspectives. The editors argue, moreover, that world-systems analysis can be strengthened by drawing on its holistic methodologies, returning to its Third World roots, and learning from other critical approaches. The authors in this volume not only make important contributions to comparative and historical social science, they also bring a new vigor to the world-systems perspective. Facing critical junctures in both the "state of knowledge" and the "state of the world," this book demonstrates the continued utility of, and future possibilities for, world-systems analysis.

The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South

Author : Navroz K. Dubash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199677166
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South by : Navroz K. Dubash

Download or read book The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South written by Navroz K. Dubash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This volume empirically explores the emergence of regulatory agencies of a range of developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South

Author : Alfred J. López
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000959147
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South by : Alfred J. López

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South written by Alfred J. López and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal globalization has demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized who consistently bear the brunt of the suffering. What defines the Global South is the recognition across the world that globalization’s promised bounties have not materialized. It has failed as a global master narrative. Global South studies centers on three general areas: Globalization, its aftermath/failure, and how those on the economic bottom survive it. Organized into three parts, this volume consists of original essays by 25 contributors from around the world. Part I focuses on the origins and objects of Global South studies, and how this field has come to define and historicize its organizing concept. Part II considers subsequent critical developments in Global South studies, particularly those that embrace interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Part III features case studies which highlight a range of applications and interventions. The contributors critique the boundaries and definitions explored in the earlier parts and push "settled" literatures or methods into new analytical spaces. This innovative collection is an invaluable resource for anyone studying and researching Global South studies and literature, but also those interested in world literature, contemporary literature, postcolonialism, decolonizing the curriculum, critical race studies, gender studies, and politics.

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Author : Gautam Bhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392841
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South written by Gautam Bhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The chapters thus take the form not of generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections: planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy. This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Social Theory and Asian Dialogues

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811070954
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Asian Dialogues written by Ananta Kumar Giri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition. Focusing on perspectives from Asia, notably East Asia and India, it interrogates presuppositions in contemporary critical social theory about man, culture and society, and considers central themes such as knowledge and power, knowledge and liberation. The diverse contributions tackle key questions such the globalization of social theory, identity and society in east asia, as well as issues such as biopolitics, social welfare and eurocentrism. They also examine dialogues along multiple trajectories between social theorists from the Euro-American world and from the Asian universe, such as between Kant and Gandhi, Habermas and Sri Aurobindo, the Bildung tradition in Europe and the Confucian traditions. Arguing for a global comparative engagement and cross-cultural dialogue, this is a key read for all those interested in the future of social theory in the wake of globalization and the rise of the global south.

Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South

Author : Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442271574
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South written by Mark A. Lamport and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of Christianity in the global south is not just a demographic shift—it is transforming the faith itself. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South traces both the history and the contemporary themes of Christianity in more than 150 countries and regions. It includes maps, images, and a detailed timeline of key events.

The Rise of Small-Scale Development Organisations

Author : Hanne Haaland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000845052
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Small-Scale Development Organisations written by Hanne Haaland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses the rise, positioning and role of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in the Global North. This book presents and reflects upon unique data and analyses of a growing global community of researchers involved in this field of study located in a diverse set of countries in the Global North and South. This book presents a multi-cited perspective on this alternative development actor. The first part of the book starts from a northern perspective and from an analysis of how and why citizens actively engage in the field of international development. Starting from this understanding of this particular development actor, the second part will delve into the role of these actors in the Global South, particularly related to topics such as partnerships, embeddedness, legitimacy, accountability, exit strategies, sustainability and solidarity, all themes central to debates in the field of development. Through examples from different countries in the Global South, part two explores these themes from different standpoints and thus also provides the reader with thick descriptions.

The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers

Author : Ray Kiely
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319340123
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers written by Ray Kiely and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the South have now given way to a less favourable international context. Indeed, economic problems in China and other leading countries, falling commodity prices and capital outflows point us in the direction of identifying a new phase of the 2008 financial crisis: an emerging markets crisis. Kiely argues that this is a crisis which demonstrates the continued dependent position of the South in the context of the uneven and combined development of international capitalism.

The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography

Author : Janelle Knox-Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351119052
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography written by Janelle Knox-Hayes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography. With Brexit, a global recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as new financial technology threatening and promising to revolutionize finance, the map of the financial world is in a state of transformation, with major implications for development. With these developments in the background, this handbook builds on this unprecedented momentum and responds to these epochal challenges, offering a comprehensive guide to financial geography. Financial geography is concerned with the study of money and finance in space and time, and their impacts on economy, society and nature. The book consists of 29 chapters organized in six sections: theoretical perspectives on financial geography, financial assets and markets, investors, intermediation, regulation and governance, and finance, development and the environment. Each chapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge, identifying issues and discussing relevant debates. Written in an analytical and engaging style by authors based on six continents from a wide range of disciplines, the work also offers reflections on where the research agenda is likely to advance in the future. The book’s key audience will primarily be students and researchers in geography, urban studies, global studies and planning, more or less familiar with financial geography, who seek access to a state-of-the art survey of this area. It will also be useful for students and researchers in other disciplines, such as finance and economics, history, sociology, anthropology, politics, business studies, environmental studies and other social sciences, who seek convenient access to financial geography as a new and relatively unfamiliar area. Finally, it will be a valuable resource for practitioners in the public and private sector, including business consultants and policy-makers, who look for alternative approaches to understanding money and finance.