... rational reforms, to restore its authority, to enhance its effectiveness and to regain its central role in international affairs.
China and Russia, either as a member of the global South or as its partner, should work together with the Global South in the ... ... but it is possible to form a grid-like form of cooperation that is multilevel, multidisciplinary and multiformat.
The SCO and BRICS are originally platforms for political, economic, security and humanistic cooperation among their participants, but as they have expanded and developed, their functions have begun to expand and their impact on the international order and global governance has grown. On the one hand, these ...
... that the option of granting of permanent membership to Japan and Germany is essentially excluded. Another peculiar feature of China’s position is the aspiration for the so-called “
package solution
,” i.e. for transformations with the maximum backing of all UN member states, which is an elusive task. It is also important to bear in mind that Japan and India are members of the “Asian” ... ... and this cannot but alarm Beijing.
To summarize everything stated above, it is highly probable that the Russian presidency in BRICS will involve the challenge of bringing together the positions of both the “old-timers” and the new members on the UN ...
...
Madame Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund has already pressed the BRICS New Development Bank to start generating loans in a tight money global economy ahead of its schedule. But there are no indications that the BRICS bank, still not fully funded and masking the lingering controversy over being headquartered in China, will open its loan window prior to the middle of next year.
The BRICS food security initiative, meanwhile, is providing job creation for “Sherpa-style” experts and bureaucrats who should be more agile than their American and European ...
... countries in terms of personnel strength within UN contingents (
see Table 1
).
Table 1.
BRICS countries in UN Peacekeeping Activities (as of October 31, 2012)
Country
Police
Experts
Military
Total
India
1 001
51
6 812
7 864
South Africa
61
20
2 120
2 201
China
172
37
1710
1 919
Brazil
11
24
1676
1 711
Russia
38
62
5
105
BRICS countries
1 283
194
12 323
13 800
All countries
12 811
1 899
83 611
98 321
Source
:
UN
India indisputably outnumbers its BRICS partners and is followed by Brazil, with South Africa and China trailing behind. Russia is the unquestionable underachiever, ...
