This book examines the second BRICS outreach process known as BRICS plus, inaugurated at the 2023 XV BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. The idea of BRICS plus was an initiative of China at the Xiamen summit in 2017, which had, at first, a timid consensus, exposing contradictions and conflicts of interest among BRICS members and between the BRICS and the West. The authors look at the innovative aspects of the new BRICS plus and how they might change the current geopolitical configuration, particularly in the post-pandemic world and in the context of the war in Ukraine. They focus on particular on the two enthusiastic supporters of BRICS plus project: China and Russia; and the three more conservative ones: India, Brazil and South Africa.
Part I Historical Evolution and Conceptual Foundations of BRICS Plus.-
1.The BRICS Plus: The Clash of Globalizations in a Multicentric System.-
2.Conceptualizing the Trajectory of the BRICS and BRICS Plus:International
Order in the New Era of Intertwined Hegemony.- Part II Crucial Topics and
Structural Challenges for BRICS Plus.- 3.BRICS Plus and the Erosion of Dollar
Dominance:The Pluripolar Pathway.- 4.Diasporas and Migration in BRICS Plus.-
5.BRICS Plus and the New Geopolitical Scenario.- 6.On the Secret of BRICS
Success: The Enlargement Process, the Erosion of the Rules-Based Order, and
the Emergence of the Global Majority.- Part III BRICS Plus, Global South
Agency, and Regional Perspectives.-
7. From BRICS Plus to a Community with a
Shared Future for Mankind:A Practice Path.- 8.Russia and BRICS Plus: The
Search for Non-Isolation in the Context of a Changing International Order.-
9.Indias Multi-Alignment in Global Disorder: BRICS and Changing Statecraft.-
10.South Africa and BRICS Plus: Principles and Pragmatism.- 11.Brazil and the
BRICS Plus.- 12.UAE Membership in BRICS Plus:A Paradigm Shift in
International Relations.- 13.Geopolitical Implications of BRICS Membership
for Egypt, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.-
14. BRICS and Southeast Asia: The Politics
of Transregional Engagement.- 15.Iran and the BRICS: Aspiring Regional
Leadership through Multilateralism.- 16.Perspective: Civilizational
Coexistence and the Plural Futures of Modernity.
Javier Vadell is Associate Professor at Department of International Relations of Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) Brazil; Editor-in-chief of Estudos Internacionais, Journal of International Relations; Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); and member of the Brazilian Council of Sinology.
Li Xing is a Yunshan Leading Scholar and Distinguished Professor at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies and Director of the European Research Center at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. He is also Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Aalborg University, Denmark.
