The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS
Author(s)
Bartsch, Sonja
Abstract
This paper analyses the role of actors from developing countries in global processes of policy making and governance. To systematically examine the channels of influence of Southern actors and the interactions in global governance it develops the concept of interfaces. I differentiate between organizational, discoursive, legal, and resource-transfer interfaces in global governance, the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The paper examines the role of Southern government and non-state actors in the central organizations of global health, their influence in debates and discourses on strategies ot fight HIV/AIDS, and the financing mechanisms that were introduce to fight HIV?AIDS in the developing world. It shows that albeit actors from Northern countries dominate global governance in general, in particular areas the current institutional setting of global governance provides significant opportunities for rather weak actors such as civil society organizations and governments from the South to influence strategies and policies.
