Non-Aligned World

Jorge Heine is a lawyer, diplomat and political scientist who specializes in the international politics of the Global South. He is currently Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University , where he directs the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He has served as a Cabinet minister in the Chilean government, and as Chile’s Ambassador to China, to India and to South Africa. A past Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), he was previously the CIGI Professor of Global Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University (2007-2017), and has held visiting appointments at the universities of Konstanz, Oxford, Paris and Tsinghua. A co-founder and board member of Diplomats Without Borders, he has published 17 books. In 2023 he received the Pardee School’s Adil Najam Prize for Advancing the Public Understanding of Global Affairs.Carlos Fortin is an Emeritus Fellow and Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and Professor at the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile. Between 1990 and 2005 he was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. Previously he was Director of Programmes of the South Commission and one of the lead authors of the Commission's Final Report, The Challenge to the South (1990). He is the author of nine books and more than seventy articles in academic journals and collective volumes on globalization and development, the multilateral trade regime, and the role of the State in development.Carlos Ominami is president of the Foro Permanente de Política Exterior, a Chilean think tank, a director of the Chile 21 Foundation, and an associate fellow at the Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (IRIS) in Paris.  An economist with a doctorate from the University of Paris Nanterre, he served as Chile's Minister of Economic Affairs from 1990-1992 and as a Senator from 1994-2010. He has worked as a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, and as an advisor to the French Ministry of Industry and to the French Ministry of Cooperation. A columnist for La Tercera, one of Chile's leading dailies, and a member of the Grupo de Puebla, a group of progressive Latin American leaders, he has published a dozen books both in Chile and in France.

• ContentsFigures and TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface1. The War in Ukraine: Reactions from the Global South2. What is Active Non-Alignment and What Fuels It?3. The Cold War, Decolonization and the Non-Aligned Movement4. The Political Economy of Active Non-Alignment5. Active Non-Alignment and the ASEAN Way6. From the Extreme West to Active Non-Alignment7. The Global South and Active Non-AlignmentConclusionNotes