The BRICS summit will convene in China’s Sanya beach resort on April 14.For the first time in the alliance’s relatively short history, South Africa will participate in the forum as a member along with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, while the disquieting political settings of the early 2011 reinforce the […]
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China And India: Hitting the Great Wall
By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) The visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India between December 15 and 17 generated much euphoria in India and across Asia. China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world and their growing importance in international affairs is becoming increasingly […]
The United States Did the Iranian Opposition a Disservice
Evgeny VELIYEV (Russia) Sanctions have strengthened Ahmadinejad. Turkey intends to continue supplying Iran with petroleum products despite the threat of sanctions from the United States, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post referring to an announcement by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz. “If the preference of the […]
BRIC: Illusion or Reality
Andrei VOLODIN (Russia) Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria has distinguished “tectonic shifts” in the world’s economics and politics that divide the last 500 years into three unequal stages: (1) the rise of the West, which began in the 15th century and saw a “dramatic” acceleration at the end of the 18th century […]
Iran Signs Uranium Swap Deal
At least we’ve got good news from Tehran: Iran agreed to enrich uranium in Turkey. The menace of imposing international sanctions and further escalation of the Western pressure on this country under nuclear pretext is temporarily diminished. Perhaps it was the first ever notable diplomatic achievement of the BRIC Alliance […]
BRICs Keen to Strengthen the Economic Framework of the Multipolar World
Manish CHAND (India) The second BRIC summit ended in Brasilia with a clarion call for “a new International order” to accommodate the aspirations of rising powers in International decision-making structures. The leaders of the four top emerging economies, whose share in global economic development has exceeded 50 pc, in Russian […]
BRIC Countries Are Heavily Dependent On the US Dollar System
The most interesting outcome of the last BRIC Summit was the agreement to boost cooperation on the use of local currencies in trade transactions. The agreement between banks in Russia, India, China and Brazil that service import-export operations is intended to measure trade directly in national currencies. This is an […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 3.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) Part 1, Part 2 5. But how does Russia position itself in this new global reality? The strategy proposed first by Gorbachev and then by Yeltsin was that Russia should become part of the Western system. Gorbachev proceeded from the concept of a “common European home;” Yeltsin […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 2.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) Part 1 2. Another aspect of the modern world is the fact that it quite clearly has resumed the militarization of international relations. After the collapse of the USSR and the end of the bipolar confrontation, military spending actually decreased, and it happened everywhere—not just in the […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 1.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) After World War II and up until the late 1980s, the world was bipolar, with two centers of power. One of them was the Soviet Union, which at its height controlled a significant part, although not the greater part, of humanity. The gross domestic product of the […]
Is BRIC Triggering “New Thinking”?
On the eve of BRIC Alliance Summit opening tomorrow in Brasil we are republishing a last-year article by the German observer Michael LIEBIG as an introduction for coming analysis… The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – are no longer content with being invited to the G20 and […]
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