SAJIA 32.1 & 2 Offers Perspectives on the Transformation of BRICS in a Rapidly Shifting Global Order

Image: Flickr, BRICS Brasil, Isabela Castilho
Image: Flickr, BRICS Brasil, Isabela Castilho

The SAJIA special issue: The BRICS Expanded: Shaped By – Or Shaping – The Global Order? (Volume 32.1 and2 ) is now available on the Taylor and Francis website.

Introduction to the special issue: The BRICS expanded: Shaped by – or shaping – the global order?
Gustavo de Carvalho, Steven Gruzd and Yu-Shan Wu


Research Articles

BRICS expansion: Adaptive response or proactive restructuring of global governance?
Gustavo de Carvalho, Jaimal Anand and Sanusha Naidu

Assessing the Impact of an expanded BRICS on the international order: The role of power and legitimacy
Peter Wang and Rahul Mishra

The expanded BRICS: A catalyst for global transformation or advocate for incremental change?
Omonye Omoigberale

Being Africa’s BRIC(S): South Africa’s foreign policy turn from ‘Neo-Liberalism’ to the ‘New Era’
Chris Alden and Maxi Schoeman

Be careful what you wish for: Brazil and BRICS in three acts
Paulo Esteves and Carlos Frederico Coelho

Promoting an alternative economic bloc? The People’s Republic of China’s strategic approach to strengthening the BRICS
Borja Macias

Kremlin looks southward: The logic of Global South in Russian foreign policy
Vuk Vuksanović

An expanded BRICS: Agenda and stakes for India
Shubhrajeet Konwer

Turkey and BRICS: Strategic autonomy and a search for new partnerships in a post-Western world
Buğra Süsler

China, India and the prospects of a BRICS-led maritime order in the Indian Ocean region
Cliff Mboya and Swati Arun

Between global geopolitics and national interests: BRICS cooperation in the mineral sector
Melanie Müller

The BRICS, the Dollar and SWIFT: A review of evolving interests and monetary reform momentum
Lauren A Johnston

Convergences between the BRICS Business Council and the New Development Bank: Implications for the BRICS membership expansion
Rafaela Mello Rodrigues de Sá and Ana Saggioro Garcia

Book Reviews

The BRICS in Africa: Promoting Development? by Funeka Y. April, Modimowabarwa Kanyane, Yul Derek Davids and Krish Chetty
Reviewed by Jayanathan Govender

Locating BRICS in the Global Order:  Perspectives from the Global South by Rajan Kumar, Meeta Keswani Mehra, G. Venkat Raman and Meenakshi Sundriyal
Reviewed by Thaís Simões Dória

Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing by Samir Puri
Reviewed by John Stremlau

Globalization, Multipolarity and Great Power Competition by Hanna Samir Kassab
Reviewed by J. Brooks Spector

Handbook on Public Policy and Food Security by Sheryl Hendricks and Suresh Babu
Reviewed by Andrew Bennie

BRICS and Climate Change: Balancing National Interests, National Development Goals and Global Environmental Sustainability by Hussein Solomon, Sanet Solomon and Bashabi Gupta
Reviewed by Arina Muresan

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