Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines the connections (and disconnections) between the aspirational notion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) as a putative solidarity-orientated institutional concert type and the institutional evolution towards a far more limited club-mode of operation by which it evolved. Through this extended examination, it is the deficiencies in the US-centric literature that once more surface. The BRICS members are not just a reflection of images of economic transition on an individual basis, as witnessed by the animation of the Goldman Sachs predictions. Instead, the BRICS as a group has built up a collective institutional personality, the full implications of which still lie ahead, with the meaning of the members ‘concerting among each other’—with Russia ambitiously (if awkwardly) the prime animator—remaining very much in play.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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