The attacks by Iran and its proxies on its neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council have highlighted the weakness of the Global South’s geopolitical cohesion. They have shown that the emerging bloc does not yet propose or offer a cohesive alternative structure for political stability. The Western-led international order that it opposes has, for the last 80 years, provided a degree of stability to the international system. Iran may therefore have damaged the prospects of the Global South becomin
