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The Myth of the ‘Global South’ - A Flawed Foreign Policy Construct

22 Oct 2024

Through bilateral relationships, the Commonwealth, the G20, the Five Power Defence Arrangements, the UK Mission to ASEAN, policyexchange.org.uk | 9 The Myth of the ‘Global South’ and our imminent accession to the CPTPP, the UK has strong existing partnerships with many ‘Southern’ states. [...] The UK has developed deep economic and strategic partnerships with ‘Southern’ states, including the Commonwealth, the policyexchange.org.uk | 13 The Myth of the ‘Global South’ G20, the Five Power Defence Arrangements, the UK Mission to ASEAN, and imminent accession to the CPTPP. [...] The ‘Global South’ is a descendant of the ‘Third World’, a Cold War term that went out of fashion due to the eventual absorption of most of the community into the global capitalist economy, as well as its supposedly condescending undertones.10 Both frameworks are imbued with a strand of intellectual thought which refutes the legitimacy of the Western-constructed world order. [...] policyexchange.org.uk | 21 The Myth of the ‘Global South’ vast economic and human toll that defeating Nazi Germany took on the West; the rising power of independence movements; and the decolonising impetus of the world’s new superpower: the United States (US). [...] This served the dual purpose of absolving itself of responsibility for geopolitical tension, and gaining political currency in the ‘Third World’.60 SOVIET WEAPONISATION OF ‘THIRD WORLDISM’ In the aftermath of the Second World War and with the onset of a wider global competition, the Soviet Union lacked the resources or attention span to reach out to the ‘Third World’.
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