ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on four key concepts of global governance developed by citizens of the Global South after 1945, in a bid to make institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization more equitable. The first two concepts—political decolonization and economic decolonization—represented southern efforts to restructure the five-century political and economic system of “global apartheid” imposed through European slavery and colonialism. The last two concepts—global human rights and global security – were southern efforts to contribute to a more just and secure system of global governance through ideas developed by civil society and UN actors from the Global South.
