Radmila Nakarada, Distinguished Fellow at the New South Institute, has contributed a chapter titled ‘Increasing Global Transformative Capacities vs. Inertia of the Irrational’ to the volume Cooperative Multipolar System – In Quest of a New World Order, edited by Biljana Vankovska, Richard Sakwa, Weiqing Zhang and Tomislav Mileski (Bomat Graphics, 2025).

This volume emerged from the conference Cooperative Multipolar System: In Quest of a New World Order, held on 3–4 October 2024 in Skopje. Organised by the Global Changes Center (GCC), the newest research centre within the Faculty of Philosophy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, the event was later joined by the Chamber of Emigrants from Macedonia as a supporting institution. While formally structured as an academic gathering, the conference was explicitly conceived as an intellectual intervention – one aimed at engaging with the shifting global order and challenging the one-dimensional narratives prevalent in both Macedonian and international discourse.

In her chapter, Nakarada examines the structural crises affecting global governance today: persistent violent conflict, deepening social inequality, ecological degradation and the erosion of democratic norms. She calls for renewed attention to global transformative capacities, grounded in epistemological pluralism, historical self-reflection and transnational solidarity. Central to her thesis is the need to distinguish between multipolarity, which can replicate existing power hierarchies, and pluriversality, which opens space for diverse worldviews and social imaginaries.

Nakarada’s analysis draws attention to the emancipatory potential of the Global South as a site of innovation and resistance, and outlines concrete strategies for fostering collective agency through reimagined civil society, inclusive knowledge systems and cooperative political alignments.

We invite all those engaged in debates on global governance, justice and post-hegemonic futures to read Radmila Nakarada’s chapter and explore the volume in full.