In an interconnected world, no nation acts in isolation. Decisions made in one country today can shape lives thousands of miles away and across generations. Whether it is the impact of carbon emissions, war and conflict, financial instability, the disruption of global value chains or the spread of disease, global challenges demand collective solutions.

Although international cooperation has been the subject of a polarising public debate, framed as altruistic by some, and as reflecting geopolitical interests by others, in reality no nation is shielded from global threats. As such, international cooperation needs to be understood and analysed as a tool to reconcile national and global interests.

In a spirit of enriching broader debates on the Global South’s contribution to the current restructuring of international cooperation, we present the first edition of Global South Perspectives, which is a space for Global South researchers to analyse and propose actionable solutions, crafted in the Global South, to tackle global problems.

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