Like it or not, the Global South expresses a new geopolitical reality

Fiona Hill: As she sees it, middle powers or swing states in the major world regions - such as India, Indonesia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria or Turkey - seek to cut the United States down to size, assert their own interests and values in their neighbourhoods, and exert more influence on world affairs. Photograph: Alan Betson It has been a good year for the Global South. The term refers variously to the world's poorer and more marginalised states; to their cross-state, postcolonial alliances; and to the spaces these create for their resistance to Northern and Western states' domination of global…