Tag Archives: BRICS
International Politics in 2015: Ten Predictions
By Oliver Stuenkel 1. Russia and the West: Towards long-term estrangement Attempts to improve ties between Russia and the West will be hampered by the fact that the current state of affairs is not the product of short-term animosities or … Continue reading
China’s latest move: a BRICS bank for climate finance?
By Pete Ogden At the latest round of UN climate talks in Lima, Peru that concluded yesterday, negotiators representing more than 190 countries lunged and parried their way to an outcome that will guide countries as they scramble to reach … Continue reading
In her second term, President Rousseff must reassert Brazil’s global role
By Oliver Stuenkel Two and a half decades after the end of the Cold War, global order remains fundamentally unipolar. Yet paradoxically, neither US economic nor military dominance are the decisive factors. The global economy is multipolar, and while the … Continue reading
Washington’s short-sighted opposition to China’s new regional development bank
By Oliver Stuenkel [Crossposted from Post-Western World] When China’s Xi Jinping first mentioned his idea of a new China-led development bank for the region, some of his own officials were surprised that he had already aired the concept publicly. At … Continue reading
Points of Order 