Culminating in the formation of the New Development Bank (NDB), which was inaugurated at the Ufa Summit in 2015, the influence of the BRICS countries has now clearly gone beyond the economic arena, with the grouping evolving into a vital multilateral cooperation mechanism including Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America,with the potential to bring new vitality and momentum for global growth.
This special edition of Global Dialogue contains contributions from scholars in the BRICS countries and beyond. Authors were encouraged to explore areas in their respective fields of expertise that would contribute to our understanding of the evolving nature of cooperation within and amongst the BRICS countries.
Contents:
- The BRICS in an age of multipolarity: Sustaining strategic partnerships under difficult economic conditions – Philani Mthembu
- Intra-BRICS financial cooperation: Opportunities and challenges – Wang Fei
- The BRICS agenda: functional co-operation between competing logics – Pooja Jain
- Between dependence and autonomy: Understanding the power dynamics in Brazil–China relations -Daniel Cardoso
- BRICS 2016 and IBSA’s ‘Three Blind Mice’ – Francis Kornegay Jr
- New economy and participation society: A general outline of the issue, formation of approaches in the BRICS countries and their promotion in the information space – Vadim V. Balytnikov
- Current political and legal issues of international commercial arbitration: Globalisation of economy vs glocalisation of law – Aleksey Kartsov
- Youth participation in the BRICS Youth Summits – Sarisha Daya
- Book Review: The End of American World Order by Amitav Acharya – Siphamandla Zondi
- Interview with Prof. Godfrey Netswera, head of the South African BRICS Think Tank (SABTT)