Global Trend: Beyond BRICS: New and Rising Global Powers
With the roaming conflict in Ukraine and the Chinese stirring up geopolitics in the South China Sea, we can almost feel the tectonic plates of the global order scraping past each other. If we look at the BRICS, the maturing organization that links these actors with each other and two other continents, we ask ourselves how this fits into the picture? What are the consequences of BRICS’ emergence? Does it signify a shift in the global distribution of economic and military power? Is there really something like a BRICS bloc in international economic and political relations? If yes, then what it stands for? Does it challenge the current US-led international order? The first part of this Global Trend: BRICS – More than an Acronym? focuses on the existing organization and its behavior to assess if they are more than the sum or their parts. The second part: In the Shadow of BRICS – Future global actors will look at “what makes BRICS tick,” and identify some opportunities, but mostly challenges for the next echelon of global powers.
PRZEMYSŁAW OSIEWICZ: Iran: A New Power on the Rise?
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KAROL BIENIEK: A Rising Regional Power? Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party
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RICHARD HORNIK: More Than Numbers: Picking national Winners in the 21st Century
This essay by Richard Hornik unexpectedly puts forward the candidature of Vietnam as one of the next ‘national winner in the 21st century?’ Surprised?…
Rafał Wiśniewski & Brian Hensarling: Power in 2025: A Global Ranking
What if we measured national power and predicted what countries are going to be the ‘next BRICS’? Rafał Wiśniewski and Brian Hensarling did the…
BRICS – New Shareholders in the Global Capitalist System – interview with Sean Starrs
Are the BRICS really able to challenge US hegemony or do they just have good PR? Sean Starrs, interviewed by Rafał Wiśniewski of the…
ADRIANA ERTHAL ABDENUR & MAIARA FOLLY: The New Development Bank and the Institutionalization of the BRICS
BRICS has taken on global governance reform. If they want to foster systemic change they need more than a common agenda – they need…
JOANNA SKRZYPCZYNSKA: BRICS’ stance in WTO
This article concentrates on a traditional topic: Do the BRICS have what it takes to leverage the West in the World Trade Organization? Can…
KISHNENDRA MEENA: Regions, Regionalization and BRICS
Could BRICS be a region? If we look at the organization from various points of views through lenses of regional integration, can we find…
