ABSTRACT
One of the intriguing things about the tropes surrounding the emerging economies and their ostensible rise as rivals to the capitalist core is the link that has been made with previous incarnations of the Global South. Vijay Prashad, for instance, explicitly traces the rise of the BRICS to previously failed efforts at South-South cooperation.1 Others have followed suit, with James Mittelman asserting that:
In the second decade of this millennium South-South multilateralism is redolent of earlier emancipatory projects: normative aspirations and matters of ends and means. But which narrative of emancipation is paramount? A strong tendency is to revive the spirit of Bandung, where the non-aligned nations convened during the Cold War, and of the Group of 77, a network of developing countries launched in 1964. Arguably a new version of global populism, a G-South, also known as G-Bandung, is afoot.2
