The study examines Third World solidarity in Global Politics in Post-Cold War Era (1990-2009), under the platform of the Group of 77 - a coalition of Third World Countries that calling for equity in international economic relations. Among others, the study aims to demonstrate the association between Third World solidarity and their weak political and economic status in international system, and examined the extent to which the Group's coalition had shape international agenda and outcomes. On the basis of the study's objectives, the research question among which were, to what extent can the Third World solidarity be associated with their weak political and economic status in international system?; whether they have acted cohesively and shaped international agenda and outcome of events. The study primarily relied on the secondary data and the sources of the data are libraries and documents. Content analysis procedure is used for the analysis of data. The study employed coalition theory. The thrust of the theory are that: interest has focused on coalition formation in social systems containing actors with conflicting interests; that relationships between superiors and subordinates are

The Third World's attempt to reform the international economic order sprang to prominence in the 1970s with the onset of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) negotiators. The demise of the NIEO, global recession and debt crises in the 1980s have pushed global economic reform initiated by Third World states to the back of the international agenda in the 1980s. Nevertheless, in face of Western indifference and hostility and increased economic differentiation and disparity, the Third World coalition has remained in existence. The Group of 77 (G77) is the central instrument through which the developing countries have attempted to transform international regimes in trade and payments. The G77 articulates the interests of over 100 countries and functions as the principal collective negotiating instrument of the developing world in international development diplomacy.

Both the developed and the less developed countries are put

The South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South confrontation to the contemporary challenges of globalization and the rising power of emerging economies.

This study examines the development of Third World solidarity within the broader historical context of changing hegemonic power systems, from Pax Britannia to Pax Americana. Thomas focuses on the political, economic, and racial structures that are fundamental to hegemonic supremacy over peripheral and semiperipheral states, and he analyzes the divergent modes of Third World incorporation (subordination) into the world system. He concludes that the racial structure of global apartheid that dominated the world system during the colonial period is re-emerging under the rubric of a New World Order.