The Role of BRICS in India’s Foreign Policy
The BRICS+ is one space in which India seeks to project its power and continue to emerge as a leading nation of the Global South.
Coming Home to Roost: The Growth of BRICS and the Quest For De-Dollarization
De-dollarization policies are already underway, underlining that the BRICS+ nations are committed to a new economic order.
India-China Rivalry and its Long Shadow Over the BRICS
While New Delhi and Beijing will remain invested in BRICS, their mutual antipathy will ensure that the gulf between the bloc’s soaring rhetoric and concrete action will remain vast.
Beyond Geopolitics: Re-Examining Russia’s BRICS Relationship
More than material benefit, status concerns are key to Russia’s engagement – but domestic issues should not be overlooked.
Lula Is Back on the International Stage, or Is He?
Lula will bring back the traditions Brazil has cultivated since democratization, but its foreign policy will not be quite so ambitious as in the past.
Opinion – Challenges for the Expansion of the BRICS
New partners and the increase of interaction between emerging and developing countries seem to be a plausible alternative to safeguard interests, but challenges remain.
Opinion – The Status of the BRICS, 20 Years Later
BRICS are an initiative that recognizes the huge differences between its members and is developed according to the resultant possibilities.
Return to Nationality: The Sustainable Way to Gain International Recognition
If a rising power truly cares about its international stand and reputation, the optimal status seeking strategy in the long run is to invest in the overall well-being of its people.
The Myth of Multipolarity and Overexpansion of Rising Powers: The Case of Brazil
Brazil over-expanded considerably in the first decades of the 21st century in a process that was fuelled by domestic interest groups as well as a myth of multipolarity.
Adding ‘T’ to BRICS: A NATO Ally in Transition
Turkey’s increasing aspiration to become a member of the BRICS grouping holds economic, political, and ontological benefits for it, but will a “T” be added to BRICS soon?
