Russia’s Narrative of Sovereignty: What Makes It So Enticing for the Global South?

Russia’s recent foreign policy has highlighted its connection with the Global South in a common struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and Western hegemony. Along with continued insistence on sovereignty and rejection of the West’s aspirations for dominance, a new narrative and strategy of ‘wooing the Global South’ has emerged. Although it has met a mixed reception in the Global South, it has widened the space for political maneuver there, and revealed a new ideological divide between sovereign internationalism and liberal globalism.