There are two fundamentally different ways of understanding the rise of the BRICS concept. The first is that Jim O’Neill’s idea...
Category - Thematic
In a series of rather dramatic showdowns between several Western powers and the BRICS in the UNSC in October 2011 and February 2012, the US...
2013 Durban Action Plan: A proposal 1. Organization of the first meeting of BRICS Development Bank Working Groups to initiate set-up of the...
The 5th BRICS Summit in Durban, to be held on March 26 and 27, will focus on what the illustrious emerging powers club considers to be today’s...
On January 10, National Security Advisors (NSAs) of the BRICS held their own first-ever stand-alone summit in New Delhi. In the aftermath of the...
Sometime in the second half of the 19th century the United States became the world’s largest economy, overtaking that of Great Britain. Yet it...
O Brasil e as operações de paz em um mundo globalizado (Baixe o livro na íntegra aqui) Kai Michael Kenkel, Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes...
Today a group of students made the first policy presentation as part of a scenario-building exercise on the future of the BRICS grouping, with a...
Book review: “From the Ruins of Empire. The intellectuals who remade Asia” by Pankaj Mishra. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 368...
Review: “The...
Commenting on my recent post on whether R2P was a Western idea, Simon Adams, Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, asked...
Li Baodong, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Review: “China and Responsibility to Protect:...
Review: “Socialization as a Two-Way Process: Emerging Powers and the Diffusion of International Norms” by Xiaoyu Pu (The Chinese Journal of...
“The Responsibility to Protect – From Evasive to Reluctant Action? The Role of Global Middle Powers” 2011 will be remembered...
In a recent article in Foreign Affairs (“The Crisis of Europe”), Timothy Garton Ash offers an engaging account of the history of the...