South-South relations have raised hopes of a new development geography–one based on
solidarity and more horizontal partnerships among countries in the Global South. In recent …

Activists in the global South have been navigating two powerful trends since the mid-1990s:
intensifying state repression and rising investment in extractive projects from the emerging …

Regional powers are often assumed to place diplomatic emphasis on their surrounding
regions. Yet few systematic comparisons have been carried out to empirically verify this …

AI holds profound consequences for workers and in doing so, raises many regulatory
concerns. Although many African countries have serious infrastructural challenges or …

This article brings to fore long-standing intricacies and dilemmas in Brazil's and China's
international positioning. It reveals the complex discursive repertoires shaping the Brazilian …

At the turn of the millennium, the rise of Southern powers and their firms was filled with a
sense of positive change and possibility. The advent of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale SA …

Having transformed its hinterland to become a major exporter of agricultural commodities,
Brazil has, since the mid-2000s, set up a range of South–South cooperation (SSC) initiatives …

This article explores the troubled and unsuccessful entry of the Brazilian mining corporation
Vale SA in Guinea, which was motivated by ambitions to develop the coveted Simandou iron …

While in the past decade there have been serious attempts to describe and understand the
renewal of Brazil-Africa relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century, less has …

Brazil experienced a dramatic see-saw in relations with Africa in the first two decades of the
twenty-first century. Booming ties in diplomacy, development cooperation and trade saw …