📚 Can the #GlobalSouth assert influence? #G7-style institutions provide #optimism. #BRICS-10, #NAM show promise but face hurdles. #MiddlePowers can foster balanced dialogues via #alliances & #ThinkTanks.👇 policycenter.ma/publications/i…
"Developing Countries part of the GS face a difficult task in making their collective influence felt in #international affairs. They can achieve this goal only if they succeed in developing institutions to coordinate their #policies efficiently around agreed agendas."
"#Failure to develop such coordination institutions would prolong the status of developing countries as largely order-takers, which see the #GlobalSouth as a playing field in which to compete for #influence, instead of sitting at the table to help shape the new global order."
"#BRICS+10 can play an important role in promoting the dedollarization efforts undertaken by many other GS countries—and in the process building alternatives to the dollar-based #international payment system, to reduce reliance on the #dollar"
"Since major #G20 member countries such as #Indonesia 🇮🇩 and #Turkey 🇹🇷 are not part of the #BRICS-10, it is not clear how much the group can coordinate policies among GS members to prepare for G20 meetings, as the #G7 does for developed countries."
"ad-hoc coalition building can be easier to pull off as it poses less-formidable coordination problems—other countries feel they can lend #support to a specific cause without being bound by many other considerations."
"#ThinkTanks in the GS respond to the needs of #policymakers and societies at large, for reliable #information, in-depth analyses, and well-reasoned policy considerations and proposals in an increasingly interconnected world that is faced with unprecedented and complex problems."
"#ThinkTanks have been mentioned as having gained regional influence: the #PCNS in #Morocco, and the #CSIS in Indonesia... Think tanks can help advance the views & positions of GS countries, engaging more efficiently w/ developed countries on pressing issues on the #G20 agenda."