The Making of BRICS: What It Is, What It Does, and What It Gets You - Couverture rigide

Sims, Juan Pablo; Lee, Brice Tseen Fu

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1041392141 ISBN 13 : 9781041392149

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041392141
• ISBN 13: 9781041392149
• Reliure: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible