Book contents
- New Regional Authorities
- New Regional Authorities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Changing Approaches to Interference in the Global South
- 2 Self-Determination through Regional Authority
- 3 The Imposition of Human Rights Enforcement
- 4 Latin America and the Emergence of Regional Authority over Human Rights
- 5 From Non-Interference to African Enforcement
- 6 Short-Circuiting Regional Institutions in the Middle East
- 7 Regional Authority and Self-Determination in International Politics
- References
- Index
1 - Changing Approaches to Interference in the Global South
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2025
Book contents
- New Regional Authorities
- New Regional Authorities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Changing Approaches to Interference in the Global South
- 2 Self-Determination through Regional Authority
- 3 The Imposition of Human Rights Enforcement
- 4 Latin America and the Emergence of Regional Authority over Human Rights
- 5 From Non-Interference to African Enforcement
- 6 Short-Circuiting Regional Institutions in the Middle East
- 7 Regional Authority and Self-Determination in International Politics
- References
- Index
Summary
Why have regional organizations become authorities over human rights and international intervention, and what explains the differences in regional authority across different regions? Why did leaders in some parts of the Global South go from rejecting any interference to arguing for the central role of regional organizations in international interference? This chapter introduces the central questions addressed by this book and provides an overview of its core argument, focusing on the creation of new regional authority at one important moment: the emergence of regional organizations as authorities over human rights. This was the first time when leaders in the Global South changed from arguing for complete non-interference to arguing that legitimate interference should be carried out by or with the involvement of regional organizations. They did so as a strategy of subtle resistance to new challenges to self-determination, in the form of economic enforcement of human rights by Western governments. In regions targeted by this enforcement, leaders responded by establishing their regional organizations as authorities over human rights, accepting regional interference for the first time.
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- New Regional AuthoritiesSelf-Determination and the Global South, pp. 1 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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