‘The South Will Rise Again’? New Alliances and Global Governance: The India–Brazil–South Africa Dialogue Forum

Abstract

The development of formalised South–South linkages and alliances reflect a potentially interesting development in global governance as elites from the global South seek to project their nascent economic and political power vis-à-vis their relationships with the developed world. However, there are limitations to these activities and it is premature to see them as reflecting a possible call for a revised New International Economic Order (NIEO). In fact, the policies and positions that key elites from the South are advancing reify neo-liberalism as commonsense and are hardly revolutionary. A revised Coxian/neo-Gramscian framework is deployed to construct a theorisation of such ongoing processes, with a specific focus on India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA).

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Thabo Mbeki visited India during 15–17 October 2003; the Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin during 20–22 October 2003; the Brazilian Defence Minister in November–December 2003; and the Brazilian President Lula during 24–28 January 2004. The defence ministers of the three countries met in Pretoria on 1 February 2004 and a meeting (12–13 February 2004) was held in Brasilia where co-operation in areas of health, science and technology, tourism, trade and investment, etc., were identified.

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Ian Taylor

*Professor, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Email: [email protected]