Future of South-South Economic Relations

Adil Najam is the vice chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. Until 2011 he was the Frederick S. Pardee professor of global public policy at Boston University and the director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Professor Najam was a lead author for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009 he was selected by the United Nations secretary-general to serve on the UN Committee on Development (CDP). In 2010, he was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's highest civil awards, and in 2011 he was elected as a trustee of WWF-International.Rachel Thrasher is a research fellow in the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.

In recent years, it has become apparent that South-South economic relations are increasing, and will continue to do so. There will be more trade agreements and more trade, more economic alliances and more political alliances with economic goals, more investment flows and an increasing acknowledgement that the Global South has more to offer than it has in the past. These new economics relations have great potential, both for harm and for good. In the absence of directed policies and intentional actors, imbalances of power and growing gaps in development will persist. With the right policies in place, however, these relationships could forge a new global order with greater economic and political equality.Covering a wide range of topics, including regional trade integration in Africa, the environmental impact of increased South-South trade, the changing patterns of South-South investment, and the effect of conflict on trade in South Asia, this ground-breaking volume presents an analysis of South-South economic relations, and how they might impact and be impacted by the rest of the world.

This groundbreaking volume presents a forward-looking analysis of South-South economic relations, and how they might impact and be impacted by the rest of the world.

Introduction - Rachel Thrasher and Adil Najam1. Latin American economic cooperation: causes and consequences of regime complexity -Laura Gómez-Mera2. African trade and economic integration: longer-range prospects - Eric Kehinde Ogunleye3. Financial crisis and regional economic cooperation in Asia-Pacific - Nagesh Kumar4. Regional trade integration and conflict resolution: an institutional paradigm - Shaheen Rafi Khan5. Developing countries at the WTO in a changing global order - Haroldo Ramanzini Jr and Manuela Trindade Viana6. South-South foreign direct investment flows: wishful thinking or reality? - Mariana Rangel7. Brazil: South-South economic relations and global governance - Alcides Costa Vaz8. South-South trade and the environment - Kathryn Hochstetler9. Latin America and China: trading short-term growth for (China's) long-run prosperity - Kevin P. Gallagher10. Growing economic relations between the GCC and Chindia - Nader Habibi