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.