- PII
- S0044748X0000619-9-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S0000619-9-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 36-50
- Abstract
- An appreciation of the BRICS phenomenon from the standpoint of comparative economics and empirical evidence would be a limited and a reductionist approach, if it is not balanced by behavioral and integrationist perspectives, whether it be a realistic reaction to a threat or a neoliberal state-to-state cooperation. A possible theoretical explanation of the BRICS emergence and evolution as a form of a transgovernmental web action or a transnational spillover is a viable but yet a complementary instrument to the normative understanding of this newly formed coalition of the giant emerging countries. That is why the values' analysis of the post-colonial thinking, matured in the framework of the IBSA and eventually shared by China and Russia, give a clue to understanding the essence of the challenge launched by the BRICS to the guardians of the present political architecture of the world order.
- Keywords
- BRICS, INTERNATIONAL COALITIONS, TRANSGOVERNMENTALISM,TRANSNATIONAL NEOFUNCTIONALISM, SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- Date of publication
- 01.01.2012
- Year of publication
- 2012
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 923