Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Khyati Singh’s article ‘The Great Abdication: How America’s Retreat Is Ceding the Global South to Its Rivals’ has been published in Modern Diplomacy on 30 January 2026.
By closing down its principal soft power agency the United States is creating a significant power vacuum in the Global South, writes Ms Singh.
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