Non-aligned doesn't mean pro-Russia
Twelve years ago, in an article titled “A Revolution Nonetheless: The Global South in International Relations”, Cornell University professor Siba Grovogui reminded us that the Global South is not a renunciation of the third world, but rather an adjustment in ideological and political positioning that reflects new contentions regarding colonial legacies (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/globalsouth.5.1.175#metadata_info_tab_contents). That “non-alignment”, the mainstay of third-world politics, continues to be important in preventing small powers from being drawn into big-power machinations internationally. Today, those words continue to ring true. ..
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