THERE has been a significant diffusion of production occurring in the world economy. Many call this phenomenon a shift from a US-led world economy to a “multipolar world economy”, but no matter what one thinks of this description, the...
The Group of 77 (G77), consisting of 134 developing countries, concluded a two-day summit in Havana, Cuba, with a call for a new global order. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who chairs the organization, emphasized that it's time for the...
THE G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy. The advanced capitalist economies are expected by the IMF to witness a growth slowdown from 2.7 per cent in 2022...
In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The world is now at a turning point in...
By Richard Pithouse / GlobetrotterXenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form. The day-to-day accumulation of insult and harassment from within the state and society periodically mutates into open-street violence in which...
By Sanjay Roy
WORLD Inequality Report 2022 underlines the sharp divide between the rich and the poor that occurred as a result of neoliberal policies pursued by global capital using the hegemonic and asymmetric architecture of global institutions. The report...
Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University is organizing The First Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Lecture on 30 September 2021 in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR).
The inaugural Lecture...
The state and society of Kerala continue to evince multiple social complexities notwithstanding the much-touted feats in human development. One of the critical challenges of this complexity is the phenomenon of social exclusion, and it still remains problematic for...
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Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, activists and anthropologists have denounced plans to hold the 2023 World Congress of Anthropology at the world’s largest “Factory School,” where children are told they are “never fully human.”
Protestors have signed an open letter...
