Description
In this article, I reconstruct Steve Redhead’s concept of claustrapolitanism to explore the changes in global governance. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the speed of fragmentation of the traditional centers of the international system, and the consequent hemming in of the Global South, specifically African countries, has resulted in the near reversal of Africa's gains in terms of representation and agency. I argue that the apparent re-marginalization of the Global South in global governance is driven not only by the seismic shifts in the international system but is further exacerbated by an endemic global financial crisis, the growth of global populism, and the march towards deglobalization.
