The resurgence of great-power rivalry—primarily between the United States and China—has not pushed middle and smaller states back into Cold War–style camps. Instead, much of the Global South has become more assertively “non-aligned” (or multi-aligned), carving out independent strategic space, something that would have been very difficult to do just a decade ago. This trend reflects structural changes in the international order including the fact that the International System is no longer Bipolar, U.S. & China offer different benefits, and a residue of Colonial Memory and Sovereignty. How are the U.S. and China adjusting to this seismic change in geopolitics or are they?
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Jorge Heine
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a lawyer, IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South. Ambassador Heine is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
He has served as ambassador of Chile to China, India, and South Africa, and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. His prestigious positions include CIGI Professor of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, a Guggenheim Fellow; a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University; a United Nations Research Fellow at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);
Ambassador Heine is widely published, including his latest best seller, "The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out In An Era of Great Power Competition."