Rethinking International Institutions: A Global South Agenda

Abstract

This report is intended to initiate fresh thinking about old issues; thinking beyond the relationship between the Global North and the Global South to parse the complexities of South-South relations, and how this set of increasingly variegated eveloping countries view the existing set of formal and informal international institutions. The report seeks to uncover patterns of diversity and similarity in Global South voices vis-a-vis these institutions. The major concrete policy recommendation contained in this report is to institute a Standing Committee on International Institutional Reform at the G-77 level, under the aegis of India as a lead convener. It is our sincere hope that such a forum can be created soon, given the rapidly changing power equations between Global North and Global South as well as new relationships emerging within the Global South.