The Global South: A new North Star
THE STRAITS TIMES
APLN member Kishore Mahbubani writes for the Straits Times on the rise of Global South. He argues that the world should pay more attention to long-term structural shifts, as the resurgence of the Global South is poised to bring about profound changes in the dynamics of our world order. Read the original article here (paywall).
We live in surprising times.
Many short-term shocks continue to surprise us: the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war and the latest Hamas attack. Yet, what makes our world truly hard to understand and grasp in totality is that we are also experiencing simultaneously many long-term structural shifts: the rise of China and India, the broader return of Asia, the relative decline of the West and, equally importantly, the resurgence of the Global South. It is these long-term structural shifts, not the short-term shocks, which will shape our future.
Image: The EU, which makes up around 5 per cent of the world’s population, is over-represented in most global organisations, commanding 40 per cent of the five permanent seats in the UN Security Council. PHOTO: AFP