This presentation aims to investigate the motivation-behaviour-outcome dynamics of the Global South emerging powers’ approach toward the Liberal International Order (LIO). The rise of the Global South has a different connotational affiliation, such as ‘Rise of the Rest’ or ‘Revisionism’. Lately, some academic discussion on the ‘multipolarity’ or the ‘revisionism’ both loosely presents the emerging powers' intentions to have a different order than the order created after the end of the Second World War. The big puzzle here is that - as per Professor Jakub Zajaczkowski's opinion - despite all the emerging powers having the ultimate motivation to increase their individual position, they are very little motivated to change or alter the existing order. 

To investigate this puzzle, the presentation aims to answer the following question: Why do emerging powers from the Global South seek greater prominence and power while adhering to the current LIO? The central argument of his presentation is that the emerging powers from the Global South are inspired by creating a fairer distribution of influence within the LIO, as they lack the ideological, strategic and material motivation to change or replace the existing LIO. Present LIO is the best option for Global South Powers’s goals and interests. This presentation affiliates those emerging powers from the Global South as ‘reformist stakeholders’.             

Professor Jakub Zajaczkowski is a professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw (UW). He is Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Discipline of International Relations at UW. His research interest focus on: the Great Power Politics in the Indo-Pacific Region, Area and Global Studies, Global South in IR, and India’s Foreign Policy. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, research articles and book chapters in reputed outlets. He was head of several EU and national funded research projects. Now he is the principal investigator of a research project titled The responses of emerging Global South powers to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the consequences for international order which received a grant from National Science Agency of Poland.

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