Overview
- Begins with historical analyses of the broader Global South and the fundamental composition of the BRICS countries
- Examines the futures of the BRICS association
- Interrogates the extent to which this formation is indicative of a challenge to the West
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 ofconvergence 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. David Monyae is Executive Director of the University of Johannesburg Centre for Africa-China Studies.
Dr. Bhaso Ndzendze is Research Director at the University of Johannesburg Centre for Africa-China Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the University of Johannesburg’s Department of Politics and International Relations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The BRICS Order
Book Subtitle: Assertive or Complementing the West?
Editors: David Monyae, Bhaso Ndzendze
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62765-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62764-5Published: 09 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62767-6Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62765-2Published: 08 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 355
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, International Relations Theory, Development Studies