A Turn to Rethink Geopolitics from the Global South in the Ongoing Power Transition

Abstract

The review discusses the book Our America, the United States, and China, coordinated by Gabriel Merino and Leandro Morgenfeld, which proposes a geopolitically situated reading from the Global South to understand the current transition of global power. From a Latin American perspective, the text highlights the shift of the world system’s center of gravity toward the Indo-Pacific and the emergence of a multipolar order represented by the BRICS+. Contrasting with Global North frameworks, the book introduces the notion of a “Hybrid World War” to characterize contemporary disputes and to rethink interpretative categories from the South. The review underscores the need to build an autonomous insertion of Latin America in the global arena, recovering the capacity to think of ourselves as historical subjects and to develop an independent agenda within the context of the emerging (dis)order of world power.