BRICS Adds Nigeria; Expands to 54.6% of World Population
January 19th, 2025
Via Geopolitical Economy, a report on BRICS addition of a new partner in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with no. 6 population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members & 9 partners, comprising 54.6% of world population & 42.2% of global GDP (PPP) BRICS continues to grow. On 17 January, it officially admitted Nigeria as […]
Read more »The G-20 Needs a Grand Bargain With the Global South
October 31st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how a revitalized group comprising the G-20 and Global South can act as a counterweight to BRICS: There’s been plenty of invective and grandiose ambitions at Vladimir Putin’s recent hosting of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. But amid all the noise, is BRICS the future? Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs […]
Read more »South Korea Eyes Rich BRICS Road To Global South
October 29th, 2024
Via Asia Times, an article examining how, while South Korea’s alignment with US-led West precludes formal accession, its active engagement with BRICS will bolster its status in the emerging multipolar order: In 2024, the BRICS nations continue to consolidate their influence in the global arena, collectively accounting for over 40% of the world’s population and […]
Read more »BRICS Keep Growing In A Multipolar World
October 27th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Economy, commentary on the recent BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting: The Global South-led organization BRICS is growing. More and more countries support the group’s mission: to […]
Read more »BRICS Runs Into a Wall
October 25th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, commentary on the latest BRICS summit in Russia which offered familiar refrains, but few concrete proposals: For leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the annual BRICS summit is an excellent opportunity to present a vision of a world in which the United States does not lead. And yet, each summit […]
Read more »Can BRICS Finally Take On the West?
October 21st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how the BRICS, an ad hoc gaggle of countries turned themselves into global revolutionaries, and why it might yet matter for the West: One of the more remarkable developments over the last 25 years is that an investment banker’s arbitrary acronym for a quartet of emerging market economies has become […]
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