Global South is reshaping world order; 2026 will be turning point
Officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attend the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia October 23, 2024.
The world is undergoing its most profound shift in power since the Cold War. The pillars of the brief unipolar moment are eroding, giving way to a more fluid and multipolar order shaped increasingly by regional actors. Rising economies are asserting greater agency and resisting rigid alignments.
Crucially, this transition is not the result of a sudden collapse of a dominant power but of the gradual and collective rise of the Global South, a process accelerated by initiatives such as China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI).
