What the Non-Aligned Movement can teach the Global South about navigating a polarised world The international order is rediscovering the language of choice. As competition between the United States and China hardens, Russia’s estrangement from the West persists, and economic interdependence becomes increasingly entangled with national security, states are once again confronted with an old geopolitical demand: whose side are you on? Yet across much of the Global South, the answer has been...

The ruins of two world wars produced two remarkably similar ambitions: to construct an international order in which peace would no longer depend upon the precarious calculations of individual states. The first experiment, the League of Nations, survived barely a generation before collapsing beneath the aggression it had been created to restrain. The second, the United Nations, has endured for more than eighty years, through the Cold War, decolonisation, nuclear confrontation and repeated...

Introduction As geopolitical uncertainties perturb societies worldwide, our minds are instinctively provoked, reaching for the only shred of familiarity to calm our senses, found within the parallelisms of humankind throughout history. As strategic rivalry between the United States and China reshapes the international order, Russia continues to challenge Europe's post-Cold War security architecture, and influential middle powers increasingly resist alignment with either Washington or Beijing,...