BRICS and the Global South’s Assertion

A webinar jointly hosted by the Quincy Institute and the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI).

On August 22nd, leaders from the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa –  meet for their 15th heads leaders’ summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit comes amidst a changing global landscape, with the United States’ global dominance slipping and the Global South largely asserting nuanced and non-aligned positions on the Ukraine conflict. The prospect of membership expansion is expected to top the summit agenda, with over twenty countries now having applied to join the group.  Efforts toward de-dollarization and other potential reforms to the global financial system will also be discussed. 

What is the likelihood of BRICS’ expansion, and what signal would that send to the United States and the world? How can the grouping make further gains on development financing, and to what extent will this complement and compete with U.S.-led institutions such as the World Bank? What are other areas for BRICS to achieve concrete results moving forward? Join the Quincy Institute and the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) for answers to these questions and more. 
August 2023

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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:

Sarang Shidore

Sarang Shidore is Director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute and a senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. His areas of research and analysis are geopolitical risk, grand strategy, and energy/climate security, with a special emphasis on Asia and the Global South.

David Monyae

David Monyae is Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS) and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He previously served as Section Manager of International Relations Policy Analysis at the South African Parliament.

Marta Fernández

Marta Fernández is Program Director at the BRICS Policy Center and Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Her main areas of interest and publications include Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies, Aesthetics, Race and Gender Relations, South-South Cooperation, and Critical Development Perspectives.

Feliciano de Sá Guimarães (Moderator)

Feliciano de Sá Guimarães is Academic Director and Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). He also serves as Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (USP), and as an associate editor of the prestigious academic journal Foreign Policy Analysis.
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