World markets in China's wake -- Natural resources and development under shifting global regimes -- The rise of China as a necessary condition for post-neoliberal breaks -- Typology of political-economic trajectories under commodity boom conditions -- Neodevelopmentalist type: Argentina and...

Having already been growing in importance for a number of years, geopolitics as it relates to the Global South has become tremendously more relevant following Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in 2022. Rivalries with China are set to become even more influential in future, determining...

1. The history of IBSA : first steps -- 2. Towards institutionalization -- 3. IBSA's institutional structure -- 4. Does IBSA matter? -- 5. The politics of South-South cooperation : towards a new paradigm? -- 6. IBSA : rising democracy promoters? -- 7. Conclusion.