Making of BRICS

What It Is, What It Does, and What It Gets You

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book explores how BRICS evolved from a 2001 Goldman Sachs market label into a politically consequential platform of variable institutional density. It examines what BRICS is, what it does, and what affiliation offers states under contested multipolarity.The book provides a rigorous framework for understanding a grouping that is often misjudged as either a failed organisation or mere rhetoric. Through an analysis of BRICS expansion, including Argentina's accession and subsequent withdrawal, it explains why states seek affiliation, how enlargement reshapes the platform's logic, and what BRICS offers – and does not offer – its members. The analysis moves beyond output-focused evaluations to consider signalling, alignment, representational politics, and participant-side utility.It is essential reading for scholars and advanced students of international relations, global governance, and emerging powers. It also serves as a valuable resource for anyone seeking sharper tools to analyse politically consequential platforms that operate outside the constitutional model of treaty-based international organisations.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor196
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041392149

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Juan Pablo Sims is Assistant Professor at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile, where he researches emerging powers, Latin American foreign policy, and contested multipolarity. His work examines how middle and peripheral states navigate shifting forms of great-power coordination in the contemporary international system.Brice Tseen Fu Lee is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research focuses on strategic hedging in the Global South, global governance and emerging institutions, and comparative hegemony across Southeast Asia and Latin America.

1 Introduction and Conceptual Foundations 2 From Market Label to Political Formation 3 The Early BRICS: Summitry, Routinisation, and Self-Conscious Grouping 4 Selective Institutionalisation: Why BRICS Thickens Unevenly 5 What BRICS Does I: Material Functions, Organisational Outputs, and Governance Mechanisms 6 What BRICS Does II: Signalling, Alignment, and Representational Politics 7 What BRICS Gets You: Membership Utility, Affiliation, and Strategic Attraction 8 Expansion and Institutional Transformation 9 What BRICS Is Becoming 10 Conclusion: Rethinking Political Platforms in Global Governance