... wants to build a fairer and more just international order, but not by “smashing the old world”, but through its own growth, through active participation and leadership to promote global development. Brics clearly represents the interests of the global South and developing countries, but is clearly not an anti-Western alliance and it does not seek to erode or to destroy Western institutions—the BRICS leaders were very careful in the exact working of the Kazan Declaration. BRICS does not even intend to ‘balance’ the West in one way or another. It will ...
... such as the QUAD, AUKUS, and the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment. These blocks are exclusive in nature and are created with two goals. First, to weaken the Global South and those supporting multipolarity, and second, to divide the Global South. This goes in line with the Western philosophy of divide and rule.
Second, hegemony must be maintained by any means or at any cost. For that purpose, the US and its allies have intensified their efforts to build walls by starting trade wars with China, Russia, and other global players....
... BRICS or Not to BRICS: the Group’s Future After Expansion
This is probably one of the main reasons why many nations of the Global South want to join BRICS. An important feature of BRICS is that the entrance ticket is free, and there are no membership ... ... role of global labs designing rules of the game for the international system has been almost monopolized by a small group of West-led institutions and forums. This monopoly has unavoidably led to serious discrepancies within the system, raising concerns ...
... else ASEAN can offer its members. At the same time, as in the case of Turkey, Kuala Lumpur understands perfectly well that the West cannot and does not want to provide resources for development.
One of the important reasons why the countries of the Global South are increasingly looking towards BRICS is that their relations with traditional leaders in the West are changing on both sides. The developing powers themselves need resources for a new breakthrough in their economic position and significance for regional and world politics. This is combined with their desire for greater autonomy in making the ...
... allegedly resulted not from the shortage of funding, but rather from the production capacity limitations of the national defense industry. Moreover, in 2023 there was a fast recovery in household consumption after a downturn a year earlier.
The pressure of Western sanctions was steadily increasing not only on Russia itself, but also on its key partners in the Global South through various instruments of ‘secondary sanctions’; however, this pressure did not prevent a continuous rise of Russia’s trade with China (up to USD 240 billion) and India (USD 65 billion).
According to the very recent data released ...
... and Russia do not represent the whole world; there are other major countries and medium-sized countries, and many regional organizations with significant influence, such as ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union and others; and there is a rising Global South.
China and Russia, for their part, are also exploring their own paths on this issue. Some Russians advocate getting rid of Western concepts and ideas in politics, economy, security and culture, abandoning all Western models, be they globalization, Westernization, Americanization, universalization or liberalization, and relying on a comprehensive “sovereignization” to ...
... long-lasting solutions. Instead, the Biden Administration implicitly or explicitly suggests that the Global South should simply subscribe to all the positions already carved in stone in Washington.
As it was the case in 1990s, the US approach to the Global South is not very different from its approach to US Western allies and partners: both groups of nations appear to be not full-fledged sovereign decision-makers, but rather as disciplined decision-takers with somewhat limited sovereignty. This is not a very appealing vision of the future world order for ...
... separatism will easily spread, and the goal of eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
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On the other hand, the appetite ... ... also limit their capacities or willingness to perform a large-scale redistribution of resources from the Global North to the Global South. This might lead to a situation, when large areas in the Global South will be de-facto eluded from the international ...
... restored in global affairs relatively quickly looks practically insoluble: the main actors can no longer afford the luxury of a direct military confrontation with each other, while indirect confrontations (NATO – Russia, U.S. – China, Collective West – Global South) can last for a very long time without the ultimate winner revealed. The stakes for both sides in such confrontations are very high, while the options for escalation with impunity are numerous. It is also difficult to fix the updated rules ...
... Europe in a number of areas. According to his logic, there is a “progressive revision of our international order, its principles and various organizational forms,” overlapped with the “resentment politics”, anti-colonialist attitudes and anti-Westernism in the global South. Such sentiments, Macron recognized, are spreading in response to the double standards “that we have sometimes encouraged,” adapting the international law to the narrow interests of the West and forgetting the sovereignty of other peoples ...
