The aim of this presentation is to give an introduction of the basics of a group of countries named BRICS. It proposes answers to various questions, like what is BRICS, why it has established, the membership, leaders of the group, goals to 2050 and what is currently happening to BRICS? Also the potential link with liberalism is examined.
3. Liberal World Order
Liberal Order 1.0 – from WWII - institutions
• IBRD (World Bank)
• IMF (International Monetary Fund)
• UN
• NATO
4. Liberal World Order
After Cold War - Liberal Order 2.0
• WTO
• ICC
Russia and China - in their own way
Added
• The existing liberal states
• Spread of the liberal states – expanding system
• Leads to globalization
6. BRICS
BRICS
never a bloc (politically)
As if periphery for USA
Global ambitions
7. BRICS
Common vision
Peaceful co-existence
Mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial
integrity
Interference in the internal affairs of other
states only within the framework of
multilaterally agreed upon rules and norms
Mutual non-aggression, and the legal
equality of states
Promotion of mutual benefits