India, Oct. 27 -- The international system is not merely evolving; it is undergoing a foundational recalibration. The post-Cold War Pax Americana, a paradigm defined by US hegemony, neoliberal globalisation, and institutional consensus has fractured. In its wake, we are witnessing the emergence of a multiplicitous world order. This is not multipolarity in a tidy, 19th-century sense, but a more anarchic and fluid reality, a polycrisis of clashing geopolitics, disruptive technologies, and climate-driven scarcity.
It is within this interstitial chaos that the Global South, historically the object rather than the subject of international relations, is asserting its constitutive agency. To conceptualise the Global South as a geographic entity i...