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  • BRICS in Delhi: Multipolarity in Practice and Challenges for Europe

    Group photo of participants at a BRICS Summit. © MEAphotogallery on Flickr, CC BY 4.0, cropped by IDOS.

    The BRICS group gets limited attention in Europe.  Indeed, the BRICS member countries are “non-Western”, but not a coherent block. It is exactly for this reason, that it merits close attention. The BRICS+ as a group are economically fast catching up with the G7 in global weight – on purchasing power parity, BRICS+ has already overtaken the G7.  Starting as an investment banker’s idea, the countries whose initials stand for BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later also South Africa – have since taken more members to their informal club, inter alia Iran, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. (mehr …)

  • “Consolidate and sustain” under immense pressure – South Africa closes series of four ‘Southern’ G20 Presidencies

    Group photo of the delegates at the 2025 G20 Summit in South Africa.

    Club governance formats were meant to work around blockages and challenges in the multilateral system. In a system under pressure, these have become more important. Simultaneously, they become embattled themselves in a political climate that has become more ruthless. Just after its presidence, South Africa has declared it would ”pause” its engagement in the G20 for 2026 after intense bullying by the US President. Yet, the existence of the G20 is based on the recognition that (financial) crisis of global scale require close cooperation among countries across the globe, going beyond the G7. That fact remains valid. (mehr …)

  • Science as early casualty in the authoritarian turn

    Photo of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with dark clouds in heaven.

    At flabbergasting speed, we currently see a very unappetising authoritarian turn in the United States under President Donald Trump. Numerous executive orders, often on questionable legal basis, target international cooperation and funding for academia, which, in the mind of “strongmen”, merit little attention, anyways. (mehr …)

  • Election year 2024 – South Africa rocks its political realities

    Image: Flag of South Africa, a hand in the same colors form the "V"-Victory-Sign
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    South African elections are but one event on a busy calendar in the global election years, where half the global populations goes to the polls – admittedly with varying degrees of actual voice in political matters. The country is among the bright ones, though, where votes clearly matter. The voters have turned a new page in politics at the Cape, setting a difficult task for a new government. (mehr …)

  • The BRICS bang! – Signals from BRICS enlargement to South, West and North

    The BRICS group – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – invite six countries to join them for a BRICS+. The final list of invitees is an odd bunch: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran from the Middle East, Argentina from Latin America and Egypt and Ethiopia from Africa, with the former also being an Arab state. This decision on specific members came after apparently tough discussions amongst current membership, as interests varied widely. Yet, the return of geopolitics seems to have revitalised a disparate group. Why (only) these six, what are likely effects on international relations, and who’s benefitting most?

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