Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers

Ray Kiely is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of eight previous books including Rethinking Imperialism (2010), and The BRICS, US ‘Decline’ and Global Transformations (2015).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The ‘Rise of the South’ and International Relations and Development Theory’.- 3. Questioning the Rise of the South I: economic globalisation and US power.- 4. Questioning the rise of the South II: from emerging markets boom to emerging markets crisis.- 5. Questioning the Rise of the South III: the question of global inequality.- 6. Conclusion: Theorising the changing global North-South divide.