LSE Global South Dialogue Series: "Active Non-Alignment and the Global South"
Speakers
Over the past few years, impelled by the wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza as well as by BRICS expansion , non-alignment is back with a vengeance, albeit in a new incarnation, as Active Non-Alignment (ANA). Though originated in Latin America in 2019-2020, as the region faced the triple whammy of the pandemic, the ensuing recession and pressures from the Trump administration, ANA has quickly spread to the rest of the Global South. ANA takes a page from the Non-Aligned Movement of yesteryear, but adapts it to the realities of the new century, one in which the Global South has emerged as a force to be reckoned with. In their agenda-setting book, The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition ( Polity Press, 2025), Jorge Heine, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami explain the origins, dynamics and significance of ANA for the future of world order.
Meet the Speakers
Jorge Heine is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and was previously a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He has served as Cabinet minister in the Chilean government and as ambassador to China, to India, and to South Africa. A past VP of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), he has held visiting appointments at the universities of Konstanz, Oxford, Paris and Tsinghua. He is the co-author of a new book, The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition (Polity Press, 2025).
Álvaro Mendez is the Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Senior Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He is a Professor of China’s Diplomacy and the Global South at Sciences Po Paris. He is also a Full Research Professor at Rey JuanCarlos University in Madrid, working on a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation that focuses on strategies for internationalisation, innovation, and social responsibility. Prof. Mendez is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and a Member of the Colombian
Council of Foreign Affairs (CORI). He teaches at LSE, Sciences Po Paris, and Fudan University. He has won numerous teaching awards, such as the IR Departmental Teaching Prize in recognition of his teaching of International Relations at the LSE, and he has contributed to numerous books as an author, co-author, or editor of numerous books.
Gregory T. Chin (PhD, York University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Political Economy at York University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is Co-Director of the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project at Global Policy journal online. He has published widely on the international andc omparative political economy of China, Asia, the BRICS, international money and global finance. Greg worked in the Government of Canada from 2000 to 2007, in Ottawa at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Canadian International Development Agency,2000-2003, and as First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, 2003-2006.
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