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The Global South: A new North Star
The resurgence of the Global South is going to lead to profound changes in the chemistry of our world order.
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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.
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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.
