BRICS Plus: An Emerging New World Order?
Description
This book examines the second BRICS outreach process known as "BRICS plus", inaugurated at the 2023 XV BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. The idea of BRICS plus was an initiative of China at the Xiamen summit in 2017, which had, at first, a timid consensus, exposing contradictions and conflicts of interest among BRICS members and between the BRICS and the West. The authors look at the innovative aspects of the new BRICS plus and how they might change the current geopolitical configuration, particularly in the post-pandemic world and in the context of the war in Ukraine. They focus on particular on the two enthusiastic supporters of BRICS plus "project": China and Russia; and the three more conservative ones: India, Brazil and South Africa.
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Javier Vadell is Associate Professor at Department of International Relations of Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) Brazil; Editor-in-chief of Estudos Internacionais, Journal of International Relations; Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); and member of the Brazilian Council of Sinology.
Li Xing is a Yunshan Leading Scholar and Distinguished Professor at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies and Director of the European Research Center at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. He is also Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Content
Part I Historical Evolution and Conceptual Foundations of BRICS Plus.- 1.The BRICS Plus: The "Clash of Globalizations" in a Multicentric System.- 2.Conceptualizing the Trajectory of the BRICS and BRICS Plus:International Order in the New Era of Intertwined Hegemony.- Part II Crucial Topics and Structural Challenges for BRICS Plus.- 3.BRICS Plus and the Erosion of Dollar Dominance:The Pluripolar Pathway.- 4.Diasporas and Migration in BRICS Plus.- 5.BRICS Plus and the New Geopolitical Scenario.- 6.On the Secret of BRICS Success: The Enlargement Process, the Erosion of the "Rules-Based Order," and the Emergence of the Global Majority.- Part III BRICS Plus, Global South Agency, and Regional Perspectives.- 7. From BRICS Plus to a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind:A Practice Path.- 8 . Russia and BRICS Plus: The Search for Non-Isolation in the Context of a Changing International Order.- 9.India's Multi-Alignment in Global Disorder: BRICS and Changing Statecraft.- 10.South Africa and BRICS Plus: Principles and Pragmatism.- 11.Brazil and the BRICS Plus.- 12.UAE Membership in BRICS Plus:A Paradigm Shift in International Relations.- 13.Geopolitical Implications of BRICS Membership for Egypt, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.- 14. BRICS and Southeast Asia: The Politics of Transregional Engagement.- 15.Iran and the BRICS: Aspiring Regional Leadership through Multilateralism.- 16.Perspective: Civilizational Coexistence and the Plural Futures of Modernity.