... Vorontsov adds yet another dimension to this picture with an insight into Seoul’s vision on how to overcome its “islandness” by launching an ambitious westward project.
Georgy Toloraya takes a broader look by trying to figure out how the BRICS, a forum where Russia and China work closely together, can be turned into a platform for establishing new principles of world order. Alexander Gabuyev studies contradictions between Russia and China within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. ...
Smarter “Smokestack Industries” are essential to the future.
Considered to be developing economies in the “global governance” set-up, Russia and the BRICS know that traditional mainstream media and online propaganda vehicles driven by the “PR is the new journalism” mindset dismiss the reality that iron ore and steel are essential to the future. This means the assignment of a low importance ...
... expanding movement.
The Beijing meeting of Russian, Chinese and Indian foreign ministers once again proved the need for a variety of non-antagonistic approaches to global interaction. Russia and China supported India’s aspirations to join APEC, and BRICS definitely retains its role alongside the Russia-China-India trilateral format. Both Russia and China would also like to see India become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The next ministerial meeting will be held in Russia ...
Last year 9 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.5 million died from the disease. That's bad news for the public health infrastructures of the BRICS, who account for nearly half the TB cases worldwide.
At the same time, however, non government actors with global political agendas, including philanthropies, the pharmaceutical industry and speculators, seek to disrupt government funded “social ...
... Rakhmangulov, Deputy Director of the Global Government Research Centre at the Higher School of Economics’ International Organisations Research Institute and RIAC expert, and Victoria Panova, PhD in History, and regional director for Russia in the G8/G20/BRICS research group at the University of Toronto.
Do you think it’s possible, given the worsening economic and political situation, especially in the Euro-Atlantic region, that the Group of Twenty summit in Brisbane could mark a breakthrough?
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... on the whole the country, with its great natural resources potential, namely diamonds, gold, uranium and coal, can achieve high rates of economic growth in the 21st century. This is evidenced, in particular, by South Africa’s accession to the BRICS group, which unites five promising and fast-growing economies that could account for more than half of the global GDP by the middle of the 21st century, as international economic analysts forecast.
All four countries under analysis are BRICS members,...
The Glacier of Discord
The development of the political dialogue between China and India has been impeded by the frozen border conflict that could escalate into a major clash. But we should not exaggerate the threat of military confrontation between Beijing and Delhi, since their strategic interests are so far in sync.
This year India and China celebrate the 60th anniversary of the
Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India
and the declaration of the Panchsheel...
... self-determination of peoples and nations. Moreover, in the early twentieth century, Brazil was repeatedly faced with various manifestations of separatism in its southern states, predominantly inhabited by the white population.
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Summit BRICS, Fortaleza, Brazil
Against this background, President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Latin America in July 2014 for the BRICS summit in Fortaleza (Brazil) was more than timely. In their comments, politicians and local media emphasized two key points: ...
... 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 ...
