Institutions of the Global South

<p>While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner shows how and why such arrangements are critical in the South’s efforts to call the international community’s attention to their concerns and to resolve their special problems. </p><p>Focusing on a range of key areas to provide the reader with a well-rounded understanding of this important subject in international affairs, the book:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>offers a rationale for the institutional development in the global South </li> <li>elaborates on the scope of membership, structure, aims, and problems of such institutions </li> <li>assesses the utility of tri-continental political and economic organizations </li> <li>examines the history and activities of region-wide organizations </li> <li>evaluates the potential of sub-regional integration arrangements </li> <li>analyses the applicability of various theories, and makes suggestions with respect to the study of global South institutions.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>The lack of a comprehensive and accessible compilation of institutions of key importance to the global South in the post-war period, makes this book essential reading to students and scholars in the fields of in international organization, international politics, foreign policy, international development, and global south public policies. </p> <p>Introduction Multilateralism and the Global South 1. Tricontinental Diplomacy: The Non-Aligned Movement 2. Tricontinental Functionalism: The Group of 77 3. Tricontinental Single-Issue Functionalism: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 4. Regional Visions: Pan-Americanism 5. Regional Visions: Pan-Africanism 6. Regional Visions: Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islam 7. Subregional Communities: Latin America and the Caribbean 8. Subregional Communities: Africa 9. Subregional Communities: Asia 10. Summarizing Global South Institutionalism. Notes. Bibliography</p>