Addressing Global Commons’ Security & Environmental Concerns of the Global South: Role of Trade

International Law as a unique discipline of Global coherence and cooperation has been taking stronghold through countries generally referred to as “Third World Countries”. However, this perpetuates the idea of “First” and “Second” World Countries which leads to an approach to international law from a perspective of Countries of power rather than of Peace and Security of the global community. This paper is an attempt to understand the underpinning of such an approach and provide an insight into the pragmatic perspective taken by stakeholders of global south such as the African Union, Countries of Latin American and Emerging global powers such as India, Brazil, South Africa etc. and the normative approach to international law as such. In this paper the author attempts to consolidate the major security concerns of various countries in the wake of a “new world order” in relation to “Global Commons” and various approaches pertaining to addressing said concerns individually as a country and as a Global community of States. Emphasis is placed on trade, based on the assumption that trade was, is and will be a viable strategy, to address such security and environmental concerns. The research methodology applied is Doctrinal Research. The data used for this paper are Secondary and Tertiary data.