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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.

Currently, the EU, which makes up around 5 per cent of the world’s population, is over-represented in most global organisations, says the writer, commanding 40 per cent of the five permanent seats in the UN Security Council (above).

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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Kishore Mahbubani

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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.

The Global South: A new North Star

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