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Building Cooperation between the BRICS and Leading Industrialized States
2013 •
Jonathan Luckhurst
This article examines relations between the BRICS and leading industrialized states. It starts by analyzing the former's mutual relations, focusing on how the ideational construct presented by Jim O'Neill in his “BRIC hypothesis” became formalized as a leader-level diplomatic group at a summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2009. I evaluate how the BRICS have influenced international issues and whether “cooperation” or “conflict” characterizes their relations with key industrialized states, concluding that there has been greater multilateral cooperation since 2008, especially through international forums such as the G20. The BRICS partnership is one of unequals, significant for international economic relations primarily due to China. This has had important consequences as the Chinese government has prioritized economic cooperation with leading industrialized states. Influential countries can continue to benefit by enhancing multilateral ties in what are often nonzero–sum situations.
How convergence on nutrition and health benefits mothers and children
Manoj Das
Developing countries can often experience the coinciding problems of overweight and undernutrition among children. These concerns are best tackled via a converged approach, using multidisciplinary systems to boost nutrition and health
Education, training and the 'precariat': An overview of the South African education and skills landscape
Volker Wedekind
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa has prioritized education and training with three broad social goals: redress of past injustice; developing skills for an industrializing economy; and enhancing democratic practices. Almost 20 years later, South Africa's education system is poorly regarded by the public and often referred to as being in crisis. The inequalities of the colonial and apartheid periods have not lessened, the education system does not deliver the skills required by the economy, and there is little evidence to suggest that the system has deepened democratic values and practices. This paper tracks the various policy moves that South Africa has made, including the processes of borrowing, and proceeds to discuss the ways in which the reforms have failed to address the social goals that they were intended to address. Finally, alternative ways of addressing the crisis in education are discussed, and possible areas of alignment with BRICS countries are explored.
Political Economy of the BRICs: Cooperation and Competition
Bilgehan Arslan
The role of BRICS in the developing world
ashish bhardwaj
BRICS Studies and Documents
FUNAG - Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Adriana Erthal Abdenur
This is the English translation of the book "BRICS: estudos e documentos", published in 2015 by FUNAG. The book brings comprehends the reasons that led Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to come together and seek dialogue regarding issues of global development. The BRICS are a consolidated coordination and cooperation mechanism, in a common effort in favor of the international system, multilateralism and the capacity to reach sustainable human development globally. Author: Renato Baumann Flávio Damico Adriana Erthal Abdenur Maiara Folly Carlos Márcio Cozendey Renato G. Flôres Jr.
Polity
Brazil, the Entrepreneurial and Democratic BRIC
2010 •
Sean Burges
By most objective metrics, Brazil is the least imposing of the ‘‘BRICs countries’’— less populous than China and India, slower-growing in recent years than China, India, or Russia, and the only member of the group lacking nuclear weapons. We argue that Brazil’s material capabilities are more significant than commonly supposed. Moreover, Brazil’s democratic transition in the mid-1980s, along with that of its neighbors, has for the first time enabled Brazil to realize its promise of becoming a regional leader in South America. On the basis of its democratic and regional prominence, Brazil has become an effective political entrepreneur at the global level, initiating and participating in multilateral fora as diverse as the trade G20, the financial G20, and now the BRICs club. On issues of style, inclusion, and distributive justice, Brazil reliably sides with the ‘‘South.’’ Yet its core public policy instincts embrace familiar ‘‘Northern’’ preferences: liberal, and mixed-capitalist, democracy.
Magazine d'Anticipation Politique (MAP), vol. 6: EuroBRICS, May 2012, p. 12.
L. Okuneva. Russia and Brazil in the BRICS group - future ambitions, by Liudmila Okuneva, in MAP 6: EuroBRICS, May 2012, p. 12.
Liudmila Okuneva
Edito Euro-BRICS Partnership : The path to the world after the crisis (p.3) – Institutions Results of the fourth BRICS summit and the outlook for cooperation between the BRICS and the European Union (p.5) – Frame of Reference Extract from the conclusions of the Euro-BRICS Process founding seminar (p.7) – Strategic Partnership Prospects of a EuroBRICS strategic cooperation: a view from Brazil (p.9) – Geopolitics Russia and Brazil in the BRICS group - future ambitions (p.12) – Economy The Role of Euro-BRICS cooperation (p.14) – Trade BRICS cooperation serving trade policy formation and the priorities of BRICS and Euro-BRICS cooperation (p.20) – Monetary System China’s Policymakers One Inch Closer to Opening Capital Account (p.22) – Education Prospects for collaboration in the knowledge economy field (p.25) – REPORT : Aerospace The European path to space is via China and Russia (p.27) – Aerospace Euro-BRICS and sovereign technologies: Space (p.29) – Aerospace Europe, BRICS and Space: A contribution to the debate on Euro-BRICS cooperation in space activities (p.31)
Defense Economy and National Development: Exploring the Models and Synergies between China and Brazil
Sabrina E Medeiros, Rita Feodrippe
Journal of China and International Relations
A Decade of Emergence: The BRICS’ Institutional Densification Process
2018 •
Ana Garcia, Leonardo Ramos
The article aims at presenting a discussion about the processes of institutionalization and the expansion of the BRICS through its eight summits. Two issue areas will be emphasised: (i) international political economy – particularly international development – and (ii) international security. The hypothesis is that the BRICS forum has passed through an institutional densification process – see the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Agreement. In such a process, despite the increasing relevance of international security issues, this occurs because of the geopolitical transformation of contemporary capitalism. In such a context, there are different patterns of institutional densification directly related to the role of the BRICS in the world order.
