On a Genealogy of the Concept of “South–South Cooperation”

Critical Studies Journal, 2017

Alongside the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, the resultant restructuring of the traditional cooperation scheme was challenged by alternative mechanisms. These new relations offered new possibilities to previously relegated actors, enhancing however certain inequalities and reproducing certain logics of domination. This was shown in the new geopolitics of development posed by emerging countries, and the role of global player emulated by Brazil since 2003. To this end, this paper examines Brazil's foreign policy, paying attention to its South-South Cooperation with Angola. This analysis is aimed at opening the theoretical debate about whether or not these new mechanisms are tools of resistance to liberal hegemony.

Latin-American Historical Almanac, 2024

The article proposes a history of the concepts of “Global South” and “South-South Cooperation” and suggests that it has been progressively moving away from critical meanings and promises of transformation of the world system and the international arena. A fashionable concept in the international debate and of vague geographical/geopolitical origin, “Global South” has been associated or sharing space with other ideas that are even vaguer than it, such as “developing countries” and “emerging countries”. To make this brief history of the concept, it will be interesting to map ideas throughout a global history (since it began to exist) that have served to name roughly the same geographical space that today corresponds to the Global South. The article defends the thesis that, among all the alternatives that have already been developed, the notions of “center/periphery” and “dependency” are the ones with the greatest critical and emancipatory potential.

Handbook on the politics of international development, 2022

Our understandings of international development cooperation are organized by theory and reflected in the broad range of diverse and contending theoretical approaches. Development as a field of study became an issue of urgent priority following the end of the Second World War. Conventional wisdom generally accepts the argument that development is a universal patter

Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, 2016

2011

What do we talk when we talk about South-South Cooperation? The construction of a concept from empirical basis Thirty two years from the Buenos Aires Declaration, South-South Cooperation (SSC) has acquired an increasingly protagonist role in the debates on International Cooperation. Given this scenario, SSC presents itself as a tool of solidarity that could facilitate the construction of capacities in developing countries, relaxing the traditional North-South Cooperation (NSC) model and allowing the appropriation of reforms by recipient countries. This paper points out that these conceptualizations present some weaknesses to better understand the distinctive nature of SSC and its potential to improve the effectiveness of international cooperation. While the political definitions of SSC may have some value, it still remains necessary to reach a higher level in their conceptualization. To attain this objective, the research works on two fields. The first one is the construction of the...

Elgar Encyclopedia of Development, 2023

This entry reviews South-South cooperation (SSC) as a contested concept and social practice. A periodisation of SSC post-1945, derived from historical turning points, provides an analytical framework specifically for identifying conceptual shifts in the global context: Concertation (1945–1981); Containment (1981–1995); and Cooptation vs Confrontation (1995–present). On this basis, major controversies are explored.

Thirty two years from the Buenos Aires Declaration, South-South Cooperation (SSC) has acquired an increasingly protagonist role in the debates on International Cooperation. Given this scenario, SSC presents itself as a tool of solidarity that could facilitate the construction of capacities in developing countries, relaxing the traditional North-South Cooperation (NSC) model and allowing the appropriation of reforms by recipient countries.

a department of international relations, School of Global Studies, university of Sussex, uK; b department of Political and economic Studies, university of helsinki, Finland

Globalizations, 2023

Framed by the North–South conflict, this article conducts a historico-conceptual analysis of the politics of South-South cooperation (SSC) from a decolonial Global South perspective. Based on documentary analysis and a review of academic SSC literature, three distinct periods of SSC post-1945 are identified: Concertation (1945–1981); Containment (1981–1995); and Cooptation vs Confrontation (1995–present). This periodization complements previous endeavours of its kind, whereby the rationale here is that a historical understanding of SSC politics and neo-colonial/imperialist counter-politics is indispensable for emancipatory social praxis. With co-optation of SSC backed by coercion as the Global North’s contemporary tactic within the strategy of re-Westernisation, I argue for the Global South to reclaim SSC as a strategy to move from delinking as de-Westernisation towards delinking as decoloniality in the context of crisis of the capitalist world order. Free download: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UAQFWD2T55IZMU45XVW7/full?target=10.1080/14747731.2022.2082132

Decolonizing Politics Theories from the Abya Yala , 2022

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