The Brics Order: Assertive or Complementing the West? 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Monyae, David (Editor), Ndzendze, Bhaso (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030627640 ISBN-13: 9783030627645 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Trade & Tariffs - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.32 lbs) 355 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book examines the direction of the BRICS association. Beginning with historical analyses of the broader Global South and the fundamental composition of the BRICS countries and then moving on to present trends, The BRICS Order evaluates the variables that will influence the association's future. While the BRICS as a forum emerged as a result of the visible fragmentation of the post-1945 world order, it itself remains dogged by issues emanating from internal divergences among member states and from external factors. The contributors interrogate the extent to which this formation of "emerging economies" is indicative of a challenge to the West, or in fact a complimentary relation. Integral to these studies - which encompass examinations of such diverse areas as governance systems, issues in bilateral relations, security threats, multilateral institution building, the transnational creation and dissemination of knowledge, and technological innovation - are patterns of convergence and divergence which render the countries not a formal alliance, but as signifiers of a multilateral future in which the West is itself to become more heterogeneous and thus become occasionally complemented depending on the vacillating consensus within the BRICS association and on the interests of the BRICS countries at different points in time. |