The headlines are bleak. Record heatwaves, unprecedented wildfires, dying coral reefs, a backtracking United States, and millions of lives upended. Now, a new UN report confirms that countries’ latest ...

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been cast by many observers as the end of an era. The U.S.-led order, variously described as the rules-based order or the liberal international order, ...

By rotational procedures and consensus adopted in Brazil in December, India has taken over the BRICS+ presidency for 2026, underscoring ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” to build an alternative to the existing global order. Chinese President Xi ...

Reimagining statecraft and international alliances are key to advancing green economic development in the Global South.

Beneath that headline, however, performance has remained sharply uneven — particularly across the Global South, where conflict, commodities and domestic policy choices drove widely diverging outcomes.

Tens of thousands of delegates from almost every country in the world are meeting at the COP30 world climate conference in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon to negotiate how to stem the escalating climate ...

Although Global South countries hold roughly 70% of transition minerals reserves, the majority of the investments in renewable energy are concentrated in the Global North (50%) and China (29%) — with ...

The behavior of developing countries suggests that they do not see a bipolar world order on the horizon. There is no shortage of commentary warning that the world is plunging into a new Cold War ...

Tens of thousands of delegates from almost every country in the world are meeting at the COP30 world climate conference in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon to negotiate how to stem the escalating climate ...