... agendas. This balance suggests that the group decided to keep its mandate deliberately broad and it is not going to focus its future activities on something more specific—like, for instance, on promoting trade among members of the group. Instead, BRICS intends to position itself as an important global governance lab, where they can test new models of multilateral cooperation and innovative patterns of addressing critical problems of global economy, trade, finances, strategic stability, non-proliferation, reforming the United Nations system, ...
... on. It is not easy to reach common positions on all these and similar matters, but narrowing existing gaps in perceptions and approaches to the emerging global agenda is critically important. One should note that given its diversity and inclusivity, BRICS can offer a unique platform, at which various non-Western views on global governance and on an extended reproduction of global commons can be articulated and, hopefully, reconciled. The broad range of these issues extends to both security and development dimensions. The importance of this role that BRICS can play is ...
... and Sudan are simmering and can explode at any moment, global defense spending and global arms trade in 2024 reached their historic highs. On the other hand, 2024 also offers a number of opportunities that should not be overlooked. It is the year for BRICS to properly digest and absorb its recent enlargement, and Russia will have to manage the process chairing the club and hosting the next BRICS summit in fall. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization might also start changing by accepting Belarus as ...
... have exactly the same aspirations; therefore, it cannot be expected to form some kind of monolithic cooperation mechanism, but it is possible to form a grid-like form of cooperation that is multilevel, multidisciplinary and multiformat.
The SCO and BRICS are originally platforms for political, economic, security and humanistic cooperation among their participants, but as they have expanded and developed, their functions have begun to expand and their impact on the international order and global governance has grown. On the one hand, these two mechanisms already have a large number of members and will have more, with a trans-regional or even global scale, and are already broadly representative both politically and economically; on the ...
The literature review was proposed to consider various views on the BRICS placement, both in its institution-building processes and general South-South cooperation structure
As BRICS becomes more grounded, the question arises as to what kind of institutionalization the
group needs to make it more effective and to give ...
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Finally, the criterion for candidates to be part of a BRICS enlargement could be a member’s potential for changing or preserving the format per se. At present, Russia and China support expanding the sphere of BRICS responsibility in one form or another as well as the forum’s more active inclusion in global governance processes. Adding a nation with a similar foreign policy stance could help transform the five current members into a more traditional international coalition or a formalized political alliance. On the contrary, the accession of a state ...
