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ights, democracy, and free markets had been used in selective ways to reflectnarrow national interests. 143In addition,(s)ince the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many have suspectedWashington of exploiting new security threats to mobilize support at home andabroad for the projection and expansion of US power. 144Therefore, while the times have changed, solidarity among governments ofthe developing world still appears to be working at cross-purposes to theinternational goals of the advanced industrialised democracies of the West. What isa point of concern for the latter is that many of these developing countries now alsoembrace democracy and have made giant leaps in terms of development, with thepotential to increase their influence on their regional neighbours and otherdeveloping countries, and in the world financial system. This extends also to theirclaims to represent the developing world in important international negotiatingforums. The question becomes one of whether these states have changed toaccommodate the international normative order as propagated by the West, orwhether they have sought to adapt that order to their own conceptions of order.ConclusionInternationalism is a strident political force in contemporary global politics. In spiteof its somewhat vague conceptual clarity, it forms a key component – especiallysince the end of the Cold War - of the foreign policies of a number of great powersand intermediate states. The developed and developing worlds have typically beendivided over whether to pursue the substantive, proselytising aspects ofinternationalism (also labelled ‘liberal internationalism’), or the procedural,institutional aspects of internationalism.This chapter has sought to show how internationalism has come to the forefront ofthe foreign policies of certain influential developing states. While it shares muchwith traditional forms of internationalism witnessed in the foreign policies of anumber of social democracies during the Cold War, there is also much that isdifferent with reference to this variant of internationalism. The relationship between143 Andrew Hurrell, “Lula’s Brazil: A Rising Power, but Going Where?”, Current History,(February 2008): 52.144 Ibid.76