... after the protests by the Ecuadorian police in 2010 and came into force in March 2014
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. It stipulates measures to prevent coups d’état and political destabilisation caused by violations of constitutional norms.
UNASUR Engages with BRICS
UNASUR acted either as a mediator or as the arena for drawing up a consolidated position, which made it possible to stop the conflict escalating.
It must be said that until recently UNASUR was a kind of “thing in itself” on the global ...
Calling the BRICS development bank “an insurance policy against the risk of U.S. sanctions,” experts at the prestigious Brookings Institution have joined Washington’s effort to disrupt the Russian economy and punish nations who do business with ...
The BRICS summit took place in Brazil in the middle of July 2014. Issues of interest not only to the BRICS members, but also for global development were discussed.
We asked
Debasish Nandy
, Doctor of Political Sciences, associate professor of Kanchrapara ...
During the sixth BRICS summit last week in Fortaleza, Brazil, the five BRICS countries agreed, as expected, to form both a development bank (named the New Development Bank) and a Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA). The agreements aim to minimize the role of traditional ...
... of isolation, not only in Europe." "One of these countries - China. President Putin's trip to China, a position of Beijing, are very important in this situation. Their positions have been also outlined by India, South Africa, Brazil - all BRICS countries. And we need to consolidate relations with those countries that do not follow the American policy of isolation "- added Pushkov.
He warned that "here and now the balance of world powers is tested," including "check ...
With leaders of the BRICS group gathering in Brazil to discuss socially inclusive growth and sustainable solutions the issue of accommodating the presence of Islamic populations within the alliance is missing from their agenda.
Avoiding an important conversation
The BRICS ...
On July 14-16, the heads of state of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will gather in Fortaleza and Brasilia for their sixth annual summit. It is, as the newly launched website proudly notes, the beginning of “the second cycle of BRICS.” What the ...
On May 27, 2014 the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) hosted the 5th International Conference "BRICS: Cooperation for Development" with the focus on future participation of BRICS countries in global governance, fostering economic and trade relations between member-states, and networking of BRICS universities to train personnel for innovative ...
... Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the United States started its $3 trillion war in Iraq.
A few weeks after 911 a Goldman-Sachs economist (no longer associated with the firm) coined the term BRICs as a public relations ploy to promote investment in developing economies, which had been reduced to a trickle due to the economic crisis. The concept went viral and suddenly top economists, analysts and business writers were touting investment in ...
Will BRICS Make the World Safer?
In its infancy, BRICS was preoccupied with economic issues, but today the group is also eager to handle global political problems including maintaining global security without the use of force.
The BRICS countries support ...