
Can a divided EU woo diverse emerging powers?
If the European Union is to win allies in the ‘global south’, the first thing it should do is stop talking about the ‘global south’.
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Anita Inder Singh, a citizen of Sweden, has been a fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC and has taught international relations at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. She was a founding professor of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution in New Delhi.

If the European Union is to win allies in the ‘global south’, the first thing it should do is stop talking about the ‘global south’.

If Vladimir Putin thinks liberalism is obsolete when it comes to managing cultural diversity, democratic western-European leaders should not be echoing him.