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Geopolitics

The New Atlantic Dialogue: A Bridge for South-South Solidarity or a Trojan Horse for Atlanticist Hegemony?

The Policy Center for the New South and the Atlantic Council have launched a joint program focused on the Atlantic basin's opportunities and challenges, using Brazil's successful disaster governance as a key lesson for climate-vulnerable African nations. This partnership, while potentially valuable for knowledge transfer, must vigilantly resist becoming another vehicle for Western-centric solutions that undermine the sovereignty and endogenous development models of Global South nations like Brazil and those in Africa.

Geopolitics

The CPEC Crucible: When Climate Catastrophe and Security Failure Test the Limits of South-South Solidarity

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the physical spine of a flagship Global South partnership, is facing an existential crisis from accelerating climate hazards and fatal security threats, despite a new joint scientific initiative on climate resilience. It is a tragic testament to how the reckless prioritization of geopolitical ribbon-cutting over people's safety and ecological wisdom is dooming a grand developmental promise to become a monument of hubris and preventable suffering.