Global Southeast

There are varying definitions, with South and Southeast Asia always included, and broader definitions including North Africa and the Middle East.

[1][2] It is becoming an increasingly economically relevant region on the world stage,[3] though it is also projected to have problems with climate change accelerating refugee crises and conflicts in the region.

[4] Many Southeastern countries are undergoing rapid urbanization, and generally have significant amounts of ethnic diversity.

[5] Immigrants from the Global Southeast to the Global Northwest are often perceived as backwards, and in some ways, a threat to the body politic of their host nation, with the amount of time or generations a migrant family has spent in their host country determining how modernized or civilized they are perceived to have become.

[6] The EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, when commenting on the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War, said that a division may emerge between the Global Northwest and the Global Southeast.