Soulé-Kohndou, Folashadé (2013) The India-Brazil-South Africa forum - a decade on: mismatched partners or the rise of the south? GEG Working Papers (88). The Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford, UK.
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The gridlock in the Doha round of international trade negotiations in the WTO since 2001 has led developing countries to pursue different strategies to boost trade and investment among various partners. One of these mechanisms is the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum created in 2003. The IBSA forum emerged in a context of the rise of emerging powers on the global scene and fits in their respective strategies of assertion and gaining status as global powers beyond their regions. Historically non-traditional trade partners, IBSA also allows the three countries to re-explore opportunities for trade and investment in each others’ growing markets. This paper will question the strategic aims of these southern-led cooperation mechanisms by looking at the forum’ activities related to the increase of south-south cooperation. The IBSA forum has often been criticized for not delivering results and being rendered redundant by the rise of similar groupings like the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) forum. I argue that beyond publicly stated aim of promoting south-south cooperation, the IBSA forum allows its members to pursue three underlying strategic aims: autonomization through the increase of strategic partnerships with emerging non-traditional partners; socialization through the creation of transgovernmental and transnational networks; and greater visibility on the international stage, which increases political leverage.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2015 14:02 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:12 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62385 |
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