For decades, the countries of the Global South accepted that there was no alternative to a world order built around the interests of a few wealthy states. That consensus is cracking.

Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, explores the shifting political and economic temperament taking shape across Asia, Africa, and Latin America – a renewed insistence on sovereignty over resources, a search for South-South cooperation and mounting frustration with an unsustainable architecture of debt. Reading today’s unrest not as scattered crises but as signs of a deeper realignment, he situates this new mood within the longer arc of the Bandung Spirit and the Non-Aligned Movement – a tradition in which Sri Lanka played a defining part.

 

BCIS Auditorium, Olympus

Tue 21 July, 4:30 pm

Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies

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