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i Table of Contents Preface iv Essop Pahad Acknowledgements vii About the Contributors ix Abbreviations and Acronyms xix Prologue: How Did We Get Here? xxi Bohler-Muller/Kornegay BRICS I: THE TERRAIN Laying the BRICS of a New Global Order: A Conceptual Scenario 1 Francis Kornegay BRICS II: THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION DIMENSION CHINA CHAPTER 1 Partnership for Collective Emergence: BRICS in China’s International Strategy 37 Da Wei CHAPTER 2 BRICS: A New Cooperation Model on the Horizon 51 Huang Ying CHAPTER 3 China and the Indo-Pacific in Beijing’s Strategic Calculus 65 Jian Junbo RUSSIA CHAPTER 4 Russia’s Identity Dilemmas: BRICS, the G8 & the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation 85 Alexander Lukin CHAPTER 5 Russia’s Geopolitical Calculus in the Launching of BRICS 101 Vladimir Shubin ii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 6 Russia in BRICS: Substantial or instrumental partnership? 119 Fyodor Lukyanov CHAPTER 7 Russia, BRICS and the Global Supply Chain of Resources for Development 136 Irina Abramova & Leonid Fituni CHAPTER 8 The Russian Perspective on Global Governance: Normative Challenges 153 Alexandra Arkhangelskaya CHAPTER 9 Placing BRICS in the Hierarchies and Power of the Modern World: A View from Russia 171 Leonid Fituni & Irina Abramova BRICS III: THE IBSA TRILATERAL DIMENSION INDIA CHAPTER 10 Theorising BRICS: Institutionalisation and Cooperatives Agendas 189 Ravni Thakur CHAPTER 11 Impulses: Trends that will shape India’s world 203 Sunjoy Joshi, Samir Saran, Ashok Sing CHAPTER 12 India’s Security Calculus in Balancing Regional and Global Geopolitical Agendas 231 Tirumalai Cunnavakum Anandanpillai Rangachari CHAPTER 13 India’s South-South and Emerging Power Dilemmas: The IBSA-BRICS equation 246 Hari Hara Subramaniam Viswanathan CHAPTER 14 India and the Indo-Pacific in New Delhi’s BRICS calculus 260 Priya Chacko BRAZIL CHAPTER 15 Brazil and the BRICS: A Challenging Space for Global Relevance and Reform of an Obsolete World Order 279 Paulo Sotero [18.216.32.116] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 20:09 GMT) iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 16 Laying the BRICS of a New World Order: Brazil’s Economic Stake in the BRICS 295 Adrianna Erthal Abdenur CHAPTER 17 Brazil in BRICS, a Manifest Destiny? Opposing views of Caracas and Itamaraty 312 Maria Carnevali CHAPTER 18 Brazil, South American Regionalism and Re-Defining The ‘Atlantic Space’ 327 Oliver Stuenkel CHAPTER 19 Urban Governance, Social Cohesion and Sustainable Development: The Case Of Brazil Within Brics 346 Belisa Marochi SOUTH AFRICA CHAPTER 20 South Africa’s Pretoria Agenda: The Role of State Sovereignty, Non-Intervention and Human Rights within the Context of Emerging Power Multi-lateralism 365 Narnia Bohler-Muller CHAPTER 21 Building the BRICS of a New Global System: Cape to Cairo – South Africa’s Search for Strategic Depth within BRICS 383 Dianna Games CHAPTER 22 South Africa within BRICS: Substance or Piggybacking? 399 Gerrit Olivier CHAPTER 23 Domestic Challenges and the African Agenda: Is South Africa just another BRIC in the wall? 418 Aubrey Matshiqi EPILOGUE: eThekwini and Beyond 435 Kornegay/Bohler-Muller ...

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