A New World System from the Global South: Great Convergence and Accelerated Geographic Displacement

Abstract

Since the beginning of the new century and under the transformations unfolded in the last 50 years from the cyclical crisis of capitalism, a growing spatial displacement of the accumulation process towards the Global South (GS) takes place. Taking the latter as the unit of analysis (and observing in its interior the interrelation of the macro regions that compose it), this displacement is analyzed through variables associated with its dynamics, dynamism and growing capacity to control the production chains. global. Inserting all of this within the framework of the demographic explosion of the SG, the results show an unprecedented alteration of the hierarchical structure of capitalism since its birth, while opening a new map for the examination of hierarchies and their functioning with respect to of the usual analytical scheme (center – semi-periphery – periphery) diffused by the theory of the world system. A redefinition of the analytical and strategic agenda depends on it at the global geopolitical and geoeconomic level.