The scramble for the Global South: Foreign domination or self-sufficiency?

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The year 2023 has, so far, proven to be an eventful year for the “Global South”, the loose collective of nations with developing, less developed or under-developed economies, which has served more as an abstract idea than a unitary reality until now. When the military coup in Niger took place in July, overthrowing the democratically elected government and installing a military junta, it may have seemed like an unsurprising occurrence of one of the most common upheavals that tend to inflict a developing nation. This was different, however, in that it sparked both a debate amongst the Economic Community of...