... pursue the goal of a multipolar world. Since then, both countries have worked together to create a new system—a multipolar world order. President Putin and President Xi have further accelerated these efforts, and now Russia and China have become the ... ... 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 ...
... 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 ... ....
Timofey Bordachev:
BRICS Before the Kazan Summit: The Dialectic of Creation and Destruction Against the Backdrop of a New World Order
The fundamental challenge for BRICS summits is to gradually shift the focus from rather general political statements ...
... 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 ... ... political level. It is possible that in order to assess the effectiveness of BRICS, like any other organisations within the emerging world order, a new system will be required, where the starting point will be their specific tasks reflecting the interests of ...
... global scale. China and Russia's promotion of multipolarity has been motivated more by the idea of establishing a fair and just world order, and multipolarity is a necessary condition to it; in a certain sense, the promotion of multipolarity is an integral ... ... of the BRICS Group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the development of regional organizations and the role of the Global South have provided the material conditions for world multipolarity, while the increasing awareness of independence and ...
... 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 aspiring nations in the Global South trying to position themselves not as speechless objects, but as vocal subjects of global politics. To cut it short, what works for the time being in Europe or in the Northeast Asia, does not work the same way in South Asia, in the Middle ...
... eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
On the other hand, the appetite of great powers to engage in state-building ... ... 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 ...
... to see in the case of Africa, where Macron’s arguments about Paris’s “favorable” role and a new partnership with the global South do not sound very convincing against the backdrop of a series of military coups (from Mali to Gabon), widespread ... ... protracted persistence of certain vestiges of neocolonial policies. Many nations that should be integrated into the Western-centered world order at the suggestion of Macron—India, Brazil, and others—are unlikely to abandon the policy of building a multipolar ...
... views on how international problems should be addressed remind of the turn of the century unipolar world, in which the rules of the game were set almost exclusively by the White House. Needless to say, this is not a very appealing vision of the future world order for aspiring nations in the Global South trying to position themselves not as speechless objects, but as vocal subjects of global politics.
Alexey Khlebnikov:
Changing Roles: Why Countries of Middle East May be Future’s Best-Suited Mediators?
This is not to say that the Global ...
... prioritizes the depth and alignment of integrating BRICS states’ priority regional projects
Amid an unprecedented spike in global geopolitical risks, the world is becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the architecture that underpins the old world order is giving way to a new configuration of international relations and regional blocs. The countries of the Global South are establishing their own institutions, alliances of regional integration, and payment systems, with them turning into a crucial force in the transforming global economy. The largest developing markets, primarily the nations of BRICS, are ...
