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This book offers a timely and critical exploration of how the BRICS grouping is reshaping global politics amid crises in the liberal international order. With rising geopolitical tensions, exemplified by the Ukraine conflict, the Gaza crisis, and broader US-China competition, the BRICS are increasingly positioning themselves as standard-bearers of a new, plural, multipolar world.
The work synthesises historical, economic, diplomatic, and philosophical dimensions of BRICS cooperation and confrontation with the West. It examines key political concepts (e.g., civilisation, sovereignty, order-disorder), approaches to conflict, and positionings towards global challenges (global governance, climate justice, poverty alleviation), while assessing whether the group constitutes a cohesive alternative to Western order or remains an unstable coalition of convenience.
Distinctive for its engagement with BRICS countries own political philosophical concepts and its multidisciplinary scope, this book moves beyond idealised Global South narratives or simplistic Cold War analogies. It challenges assumptions in Western academic and policy circles, offering a nuanced view of BRICS agency, contradictions, and future trajectories. The analysis is grounded in up-to-date geopolitical developments, making it essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and students of international relations and global governance.
