The South Shaping the Global Future

This monograph offers a broad overview of six decades of a long and continuing South-North development encounter in the United Nations. It is intended especially for the young and students in the developing countries, now and in the future. They need to be knowledgeable of the historical background and the collective efforts of their countries in the international arena vis-à-vis a resilient, hegemonic North-dominated world order that has deep roots in the age of colonialism and imperialism. This knowledge and awareness are needed in the South’s unfinished struggle for development, political and economic independence, for democratization, equity and change in international political and economic relations.

Branislav Gosovic is from Yugoslavia. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. A former UN career official, he worked in UNCTAD, UNEP, and ECLAC, as well on secondment in the World Commission on Environment and Development and the South Commission. He headed the South Centre secretariat (1991-2005).
He is the author of the first comprehensive book on UNCTAD, UNCTAD: Conflict and Compromise - The Third World’s Quest for an Equitable World Economic Order through the United Nations, Sijthoff, Leyden, 1972, and of several other books and articles on development, environment, North-South and South-South issues, the United Nations and Yugoslavia.