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The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South?

  • Written by Jorge Heine, Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South?The world turned upside downiStock / Getty Images Plus

The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asiaand Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.”

“Why does so much of the Global South support Russia?” inquired one recent headline;...

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