More: BRICS
Putin’s Push for a BRICS Currency: Pragmatism Over Ideology
Several important agreements were signed during the India visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin (December 4-5, 2025). Apart from the bilateral dimension of the...
Malaysia’s BRICS Dilemma: Weighing Economic Opportunity Against Geopolitical Risk
Several countries are beginning to show a keen interest in the BRICS grouping in an increasingly uncertain and turbulent global economic landscape. Five countries—Brazil,...
Realpolitik Reborn: Power and Pragmatism in the New Global Order
The global order is undergoing a quiet yet profound transformation. The liberal international system built post-World War II and rooted in shared rules, open...
Nigeria hosts the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance regional office
With the geopolitical architecture simultaneously widening and deepening, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has also stepped up its operations these past...
mBridge and the Future of Finance: From BRICS Experiment to Global Dialogue
Imagine currencies flowing across invisible bridges—no longer slowed by borders, intermediaries, or the weight of dollar dominance. This is the vision behind mBridge, a...
The Internal Dilemmas of BRICS: Delivery Gaps and Limits to South–South Solidarity
Symbolism and Stagnation
“BRICS in the international system: very relevant countries, but a group of limited importance.” (Viola, 2015)
In 2009, BRICS held its first leaders’...
Why religious differences could reduce BRICS cooperation
With its expansion to BRICS+ from 2024, the organization that was once conceived as a pan-regional economic cooperation group is increasingly expected to become...
BRICS Moment: Can the Global South’s Silver Lining Deliver?
When the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China first met in Yekaterinburg in 2009, the acronym “BRIC” was still fresh from Goldman Sachs’...
Fashion at the Forefront: Strategies Emerging from the BRICS+ Summit
The BRICS+ Fashion Summit has become an influential platform, which brings together representatives from more than 60 countries in Moscow, Russia's capital, from August...
Malaysia’s growing economic linkages with BRICS countries
Like several other countries in the ASEAN region, Malaysia has begun to face the challenge of walking a tight rope between China and the...