Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
How should social movements respond in a way that embraces needed changes to the post-colonial status quo yet supports communities struggles against the impacts of land grabbing, environmental destruction and rising inequality, this time perpetuated by emerging economy governments?
This reader contains a set of the TNI Shifting Power Working Paper Series:
- Emerging powers: Rise of the South or a reconfiguration of elites?
- Brazil: From cursed legacy to compromised hope?
- China Rising: A new world order or an old order renewed?
- India in the Emerging World Order: A status quo power or a revisionist force?
- The BRICS Alliance: Challenges and Opportunities for South Africa and Africa
- BRICS: A global trade power in a multi-polar world
- The Emerging Economies and Climate Change: A case study of the BASIC grouping
- Land grabbing under the cover of law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?
- The BRICS and Global Capitalism