... meeting to explore enhanced cooperation and collaboration. Reciprocally, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim invited President Putin to the 2025 ASEAN Summit in Malaysia’s capacity as Chair of ASEAN. Russia concertedly made efforts during her Presidency of the BRICS to ensure Malaysia became an economic partner of the alliance.
Inclusive Nationhood Development Vs Pure Economic Growth Development
A definition of Inclusive Nationhood Development refers to building a society where all inpiduals, regardless of ...
... the pre-industrial era (1850-1900) reached 1.1 degrees Celsius. However, climate change mitigation measures currently pledged by nations are insufficient to maintain the rise in the global temperature within the limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
BRICS countries play a crucial role in global climate policy. Even before its expansion, the association accounted for just under half of global carbon dioxide emissions (~47%). With the addition of Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Ethiopia in 2024,...
... influence grows, their willingness to conform to external rules diminishes.
This shift does not eliminate the need for frameworks of coexistence. However, future international relations are more likely to resemble the flexible, informal structure of BRICS+ rather than rigid, binding agreements. This model acknowledges shared interests without imposing strict criteria or legal obligations.
Could a new
“Yalta”
agreement be possible between Russia and the West? In theory, yes. A limited arrangement ...
... research, logistics and training in the Arctic region. There is a synergy between Russia’s pivot to the East, its resource and technology and India’s own flagship initiatives such as Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India.
Liudmila A. Pechishcheva: is BRICS a good international platform for today’s Russia-India cooperation? Why?
Dr. Khan: BRICS aims to promote a multipolar world order, where power is distributed more evenly among nations rather than dominated by a single or a few global powers. India ...
... mainly in the developing world, put plans for new nuclear power projects on indefinite hold. Recently, there has been a
resurgence
of interest in nuclear power, primarily in the Global South.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Future Belongs to Inclusive Groups Like BRICS
In this article, the conventional concept of the Global South
refers
to countries in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia (including China and India, but excluding the post-Soviet states and OECD nations). From an energy ...
The future belongs to new flexible, inclusive mechanisms rather than to old, rigid hierarchical blocks
Though the BRICS group has already been around for quite some time, in recent days it has once again become the center of public attention. The renewed interest most likely came from the recent enlargement of the group, which saw its membership double within one ...
Eurasia is inextricably linked with the main processes affecting the globe
Eurasia is inextricably linked with the main processes affecting the globe. BRICS, in turn, is a platform for developing strategies to achieve a new, more just world order. It is precisely this order, where the possibility of forceful dominance of a narrow group of states is minimised, that seems most suitable for the arrangement ...
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,...
