Policy Brief #54 / 2024
Policy Brief #54 / 2024
BRICS has successfully fulfilled its role as an international negotiating platform. For over a decade of its existence, member states have made hundreds of decisions on key issues on the agenda. The most general list of issues discussed within the framework ...
Interaction between Latin America and BRICS promises to be mutually enriching
The BRICS Summit held in Kazan from October 22–24, 2024, brought attention to several defining factors regarding Latin American countries that will be important for the continent’s political and economic development ...
... or failure of their global initiatives. Countries such as, for example, Malaysia, understand perfectly well that their final exit from the shadow of the colonial past will be impossible without involvement in solving global issues. They look at the BRICS group, where Russia plays an important role, as a potential "engine" of their own integration into the major league of world politics.
Simple economic achievements, no matter how bright they are, are not enough here: in the 1970s and 1980s,...
... publicity-generating fanfare.
How are we supposed to understand each other if bridges are dismantled and communication channels fall silent? Every exchange not only ensures prosperity, it also nourishes people’s intellect and soul and promotes human interaction.
BRICS 2024 Kazan
Those were the days, when people sang along loudly and lightheartedly to the song “Moscow” by the group Genghis Khan. People gave little thought to the relevant forms of government but, demonstrating that music has the power to unite,...
A Step Toward Multipolarity in International Trade
The Declaration of the 16th BRICS Summit, held in Kazan from October 22–24, 2024,
emphasized
that the heads of state and government of BRICS countries endorsed Russia’s initiative to establish a grain trading platform, or a BRICS Grain Exchange, within the bloc. The plan was ...
On October 31, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Eco-civilization, Research, and Development (AIERD, Pakistan) held a roundtable «BRICS Cooperation with the Global South»
On October 31, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Eco-civilization, Research, and Development (AIERD, Pakistan) held a roundtable «BRICS Cooperation ...
Nearly twenty years after its inception, the group has become a major engine for world economic growth
The 16
th
BRICS Summit has just taken place in Kazan, Russia—the first in-person gathering of BRICS leaders since the group's largest enlargement. The economic scale and scope of cooperation within BRICS will grow and interactions among member countries will ...
BRICS intends to turn itself into one of the most articulated voices of all the Global South, which so far remains grossly underrepresented within most multilateral international institutions
The Kazan BRICS Declaration—is a sizeable document containing ...
BRICS member states must remember that with great power comes great responsibility; if you fail to take responsibility, power will diminish and vanish, regardless of how powerful you are
French philosopher Voltaire once said, “the Holy Roman Empire ...
2024 may become a historical turning point for the BRICS group
Recently the BRICS group has become the flavor of the political season. The ongoing hype around BRICS arguably started In August of 2023, when at its 15th summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg the group decided to go ahead with doubling ...