——— India and China are discussing the introduction of visas on arrival for their citizens. This step would dramatically reduce...
Category - Thematic
Brazil’s bilateral relations to Japan have traditionally been dominated by three key aspects: Economic ties, G4 membership and the desire to reform...
First BRICS Exchange Program for Judges in Brasília, 2010 Following the signature in 2009 of the Protocol of Intent among the BRIC countries’ Supreme...
BRICS Competition Authorities’ Meeting in Beijing, 2011 One of the most common criticisms vis-à-vis the BRICS grouping is that their economies...
The second BRIC Summit, held in Brazil in April 2010, is often rated by observers as rather uneventful. And yet, when studying the hidden world of...
Four cities from BRICS nations – Rio de Janeiro, Saint Petersburg, Mumbai and Qingdao – established a partnership in 2008. Durban joined...
The stark differences between Brazil’s and India’s agricultural productivity and their differing positions during trade negotiations in...
As Brazil is preparing to host the 6th BRICS Summit in Fortaleza in March 2014, it would be wrong to assume that only the Foreign Ministry is...
First Meeting of BRICS Heads of Revenue, in Delhi (2013) The BRICS evoke images of emerging powers ready to team up and undermine global order, and...
The Report Eminent Persons from Around the World Call for a New Global Partnership to Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable...
1st BRICS Health Ministers meeting (Beijing, 2011) There is a hidden world of intra-BRICS cooperation that occurs without attracting much public...
Negociações Brasil-Índia crescem, mas são 2% do comércio exterior [Há] barreiras comerciais e falta de conhecimento mútuo, que complicam a formação...
As the BRICS countries’ implementation commission is discussing the details of the BRICS Bank, to be presented prior to the 6th BRICS Summit in...
What role will the BRICS Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) play compared to existing institutions such as the IMF? Will the BRICS develop lending...
In 2010, the International Monetary Fund seemed to finally adapt to new economic realities when the IMF Board of Governors approved IMF quota reforms...
Contrary to previous emerging power shindigs, which were often neglected by the Western media, the 6th BRICS Summit in July will receive considerable...
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Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel is a political analyst, speaker and a Professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, and a columnist for Estado de São Paulo and Americas Quarterly. His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity).BOOK: POST-WESTERN WORLD
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