The World Today: February & March 2024: Rise of the Global South

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE may demand greater Palestinian concessions in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel, writes Christina Paschyn.

Khan’s candidates are struggling to stand in the 8 February election, prompting allegations of electoral subversion and easing the path to power for Nawaz Sharif, writes Mike Higgins.

The president of the Crisis Group tells Roxanne Escobales why war is trumping diplomacy and why South Africa’s legal case against Israel matters.

As money and influence shift eastwards, the Euro-Atlantic world must engage with Global South institutions to remain relevant, writes Arif Lalani.

Satellite images reveal the extent of a Chinese blockade to prevent the Philippines supplying its base on Second Thomas Shoal, write John Pollock and Damien Symon.

Chile, Argentina and Bolivia have vast lithium reserves but must entice international investors to do more than dig mines, writes Jewellord Nem Singh.

A gallery of images recording the experience of Ukraine’s civilians as the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches.

A new African secretary-general in October could fire up India and restore influence to the ‘ready-made bloc’ – but it needs a reboot, writes Helen Fitzwilliam.

Many countries are shaking off old allegiances to the West and enjoying new wealth, influence and optimism, writes Kishore Mahbubani.

Instead of acknowledging double standards, the West must re-embrace globalization if it wants to win friends in the Global South, writes Daniel Drezner.

‘Conflict management’ and a complicit international community led to October 7. Only true compromise can lay the ground for a lasting peace, writes Yossi Mekelberg.

A new treaty at last acknowledges the greater harms nuclear weapons cause indigenous peoples and women, write Melissa Parke and Alicia Sanders-Zakre.

Armed-conflict mediator Pierre Hazan tells John Milnes-Smith about possible war endgames and how peace deals have transformed since the 1990s.

Reducing floods and emissions, the female textile waste workers are the Bangladeshi capital’s unsung climate heroes, write Patrick Schröder and Prachi Singhal.

Beijing has bought influence by exporting its high-speed rail technology to Kenya, Indonesia and other countries. But trouble is on the line, writes Yu Jie.

In ‘Slow Down’, Kohei Saito insists that only ‘degrowth communism’ can save us from climate disaster – but his argument fails to convince, writes Danny Dorling.

The annual event celebrating women and defending their rights has its roots in the Russian revolution and remains a red letter day for gender justice.

The signing of the Maastricht Treaty on February 7, 1992 frustrated Eurosceptics and federalists alike. Yet it underpins the EU to this day, writes Chris Bickerton.