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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Global governance, economic development and the global south: What role for IBSA dialogue forum?
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67. New players, old tricks?: Africa in the 21st century
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| Paper ID | 130 |
| Author(s) |
Ozkan, Mehmet
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Recently we have seen that the middle-sized states are coming together in several forums. WTO meetings, INDIA-BRAZIL-SOUTH AFRICA (IBSA) dialogue forum are among those to be cited. Such groupings are mainly economy oriented and whether they will have political output needs to be seen, however, in the future if globalization goed in a similar way as today, we might see more groupings. Those groupings should be seen as reactions to unjust and exclusive globalization. IBSA dialogue forum members have enhanced their relations economically by signing bilateral trade agreements and acting together on economic issues in global forums. If they can hold together, they are creating a market more than ¼ of global population. This economic grouping, if succesfull, can be the engine of growth in the South. Moreover if they can create the biggest market in the South, they would be influential in the being of the voice of the South. In that sense, this paper addresses the possible ways to develop relations between IBSA dialogue forum members and economic development in the South, furthermore, implication of IBSA dialogue forum on global governance and development in Africa can be as critical as its contribution to economic development, since the global governing bodies have legitimacy crisis. |
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