Legitimacy in Motion: Global South Alignment with China and the United States in the UNGA, 2000-2024

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Brief Overview

We examine how Global South countries align with China in UNGA voting, contrasting it with U.S. influence, using salience-weighted indexes, we trace legitimacy and power shifts in the rules-based order (2000-2024).

Author

• Cristina Virginia Font-Haro, University Carlos III of Madrid