Nearly twenty years after its inception, the group has become a major engine for world economic growth
The 16
th
BRICS Summit has just taken place in Kazan, Russia—the first in-person gathering of BRICS leaders since the group's largest enlargement. The economic scale and scope of cooperation within BRICS will grow and interactions among member countries will increase. The meeting signifies the beginning of a new chapter of South-South cooperation led by a stronger BRICS, with its elevated global...
BRICS intends to turn itself into one of the most articulated voices of all the Global South, which so far remains grossly underrepresented within most multilateral international institutions
The Kazan BRICS Declaration—is a sizeable document containing 134 points, some of which make quite long paragraphs. The last similar Declaration, approved at the previous BRICS Summit meeting in South Africa’s Johannesburg in August 2023, included only 94 generally more concise points. The earlier summit...
The presence of this dialectic, as we see in the example of the development of BRICS, will contribute to the persistence of uncertainty in international politics and the world economy, which will not allow for a clear formulation of strategic objectives, either at the national or international levels
International politics seems to finally have lost its ability to pursue linear development. This, of course, is extremely sad from the point of view of the average person. However, if we look at what...
... unipolarity has imposed for the past three decades. Against the backdrop of this context, a new conceptual framework is taking deeper root in the image of the near future. It is none other than the already familiar concept in international relations—multipolarity. [
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] Contributing to the spirit of hope for a fair world, free of injustice and imperialism, the time is ripe for a new world—a multipolar world.
A Modus Vivendi Born Out of Dissatisfaction
Aleksandr Dynkin:
World Order Transformation: ...
Multipolarity, Economic globalization, and International order
Sino-Russian international cooperation revolves around a number of core concepts, among which multipolarity, globalization, and international order-building occupy a prominent place. The ...
... the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s
The Clash of Civilizations
[Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy and is used in Russia’s doctrinal documents. In 2015, we proposed the scenario of a
new bipolarity
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... same weight division
; the U.S. outclasses China in almost every category. China has benefited immensely from globalization and cannot return to being a hermit kingdom once again. The only way China could survive the American containment is to restore multipolarity in the world.
In the context of the Middle East, China believes that the main reason why it is caught in a ceaseless cycle of conflict
is because external powers are interfering and attempting to shape the region in its own image
. The ...
... environment in its own way. Sometimes it turns out that a medium-sized power is more effective and more influential than a great power because it is more flexible and compact. How can a world order be established in this situation?
The most popular idea is multipolarity. But multipolarity is not an order. Multipolarity is a certain reality. Moreover, the theoretical literature is increasingly questioning the relevance of poles as an analytical category. A pole is something that others are drawn to. And ...
The Russo-Indo interplay serves to balance Russia’s relations with China and India’s with the West’s, which prevents either from becoming disproportionately dependent on their other partners
Last month’s
Multipolarity Forum
in Moscow, which coincided with the
Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement
, brought together hundreds of like-minded thinkers from across the world. They convened to discuss the most effective ways to accelerate ...
Multipolarity is usually understood in Paris not as the existence of several roughly equal centers of power but as a joint solution to global problems under the unconditional priority of Western interests
Late in August this year, President Emmanuel ...
