SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION AND THE G20: DILEMMAS AND NARRATIVES OF GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Scholars of the emergence – or resurgence, as the process is demarcated by some – of South-South Cooperation are faced with questions that, when combined, lead to two types of investigations: those that are aimed at understanding South-South Cooperation as a phenomenon that gained greater importance due to a supposed new breath presented since the beginning of the 2000s; and, on the other hand, those that involve questions about the reasons why the long years of existence have not been enough for those involved in South-South Cooperation to be able to mobilize efforts around its institutionalization. Given this, this study aims to understand to what extent countries from the South in the presidency of the G20 can contribute to changing the governance of the Field of International Development Cooperation? Given this, to what extent would this possibility have implications for the development agenda currently conceived within both the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development? The hypothesis is that development, when disseminated as a universalizing concept, became an intensive rule guiding the positioning of actors involved in International Development Cooperation, establishing the terms of governance. The nature of the rules disseminated and shared by CSS actors from bodies such as the G20 favors this type of cooperation to become institutionalized and, in this way, be capable of changing the governance of the field of International Development Cooperation and, even, of the development agenda currently conceived within the scope of the UN and the OECD.

Keywords

• international cooperation
• governance
• development
• south-south cooperation