Envisioning South-South relations and development: past, present, and futures

Inaugural Editorial: ‘Envisioning south–south relations and development: past, present and futures’

Authors: Pak Nung Wong

Rethinking the Bandung conference in an Era of ‘unipolar liberal globalization’ and movements toward a ‘multipolar politics’

In April 1955, a historic conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia. Political leaders from 29 Asian and African countries gathered on the initiative of the leaders from China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and ...

Authors: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

Behind and beyond Bandung: historical and forward-looking reflections on south-south cooperation

In their respective struggles for liberation the Asians and Africans, as oppressed people, joined forces in the first half of the 20th century by forming several pre-Bandung organizations. On the African side ...

Authors: N’Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba

Locating the ‘East’ in the Global South: question of self image in traditions and transitions

This paper attempts to explore the socio-political and economic dimensions of increasingly becoming popular rise of the Global South. It is argued that the slogan of the rise of Global South which seemingly im...

Authors: Muhammad Faisal Awan

The Ganges Basin management and community empowerment

This paper explores the ecological effects of the top-down Ganges Basin water management systems in Chapra, Bangladesh, based on my ethnographic fieldwork^a data collected in 2011-12. An example of this top-down s...

Authors: Mohhamed Anwar Hossen

For richer, for poorer: China embraces global poverty reduction?

Has China embraced global poverty reduction? To what extent has it done so? China faces three paradoxes in trying to alleviate poverty: first, the country is on the whole getting richer, becoming one of the la...

Authors: Gerald Chan

New donors, same old practices? South-South Cooperation of Latin American emerging donors

Foreign development assistance has been widely used for the last 60 years. In spite of changing conditions in the geopolitical scene and the increasing number of new development actors, development assistance ...

Authors: Carmen Robledo

Determinants of trade intensity of Egypt with COMESA Countries

Egypt has joined to COMESA since May 1998 in order to promote its economic relations with the rest of member states, especially the trade relations, so the aim of the paper is to assess COMESA regional integra...

Authors: Samah SA Elmorsy

The dynamics of China-Ethiopia trade relations: economic capacity, balance of trade & trade regimes

China’s trade with Ethiopia currently at 1.3 billion USD annually is expected to rise to US$3 billion by 2015. This not only informs the level of bilateral trade ties that Ethiopia has had with China as compar...

Authors: Manickam Venkataraman and Solomon M Gofie

Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures

Climate change poses severe threats to developing countries. Scientists predict entire states (e.g. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Maldives) will become inhabitable. People living in these states have...

Authors: Eberhard Weber

Constructing the social democratic developmental state in Africa: lessons from the “Global South”

Since the dawn of the post-colonial era in the various regions of the “Global South,” including Africa, the appropriate role of the state in the development process has been a frontier issue. The resulting deb...

Authors: George Klay Kieh Jr

North–South relations and human rights

There are apparent differences between the developed North and the economically weak South. The relations between the North and South are marked by dichotomies and in order to deal with the challenges posed by...

Authors: Soosaipillai I Keethaponcalan

Ethnic moralities and reciprocity: towards an ethic of South-South relations

Normative critiques of South-South relations assess the extent to which solidarity and cooperation are achieved among partner countries. However, they tend to overlook the role of inter-ethnic tensions in part...

Authors: Jozon A Lorenzana

Beyond dependency: the promise of Confucianism in Post-Westphalia International relations

The landscape of post-colonial development is marked by deepening dependency of the developing states on the core states consisted mainly of western developed countries. The continuous widening of the north–so...

Authors: Ricky Wai-kay Yue