A post-Western global order in the making? Foreign policy goals of India, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa

Sinikukka Saari, Toni Alaranta, Bart Gaens, Katariina Mustasilta, Lauri Tähtinen

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Abstrakti

India, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa are striving for a more multipolar, post-Western world order in which they would not be seen merely as auxiliary powers to the bigger players, but as independent great powers.

For them, a key foreign policy goal is to transform global governance institutions. They all call for a permanent seat for their country on the UN Security Council. To achieve that, the states need backing from more than the Western states – and this logically strengthens the multi-aligned logic of their foreign policies.

India, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa see Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and the Western countermeasures from their own perspective. They describe Russia’s invasion as a violation of international law, but see the war primarily as a Western concern, not theirs.

Although these states are critical towards the West, they are not anti-Western and they all value multilateral institutions; their foreign policy goals and features offer opportunities for the EU to engage with them, but that needs to happen on a more equal footing than what has traditionally been the case.
Alkuperäiskielienglanti
LehtiUPI briefing paper
Vuosikerta373
Sivumäärä8
ISSN1795-8059
TilaJulkaistu - 26 lokak. 2023
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