Towards a new world financial architecture
Author: Takatoshi Ito, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo The G20 includes more Asian countries than any other global grouping, and it is expected to be a good forum for Asian countries...
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Author: Ernest Z. Bower, CSIS Last week in the snowy Swiss enclave of Davos, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia threw down the rhetorical gauntlet and announced Indonesia’s plans to be a...
View ArticleWhen BRIC becomes BRICS: The tightening relations between South Africa and China
Author: He Wenping, CASS At the end of 2010, the news that the BRIC forum would accept South Africa as a full member of the group caught international media attention, as the current chair of BRIC,...
View ArticleIndia-Indonesia ties: Charting an ambitious path forward
Author: Sourabh Gupta, Samuels International Civilizational, cultural, and geographic neighbours, India and Indonesia share striking commonalities in their modern historical trajectories. In both...
View ArticleSouth Africa joins BRIC with China’s support
Author: Sanusha Naidu, Human Sciences Research Council This year has certainly started off on a high note for South Africa’s foreign policy ambitions. Assuming its two-year non-permanent rotational...
View ArticleThe G20 and the BRICS: How to manage the politics?
Author: Maria Monica Wihardja, CSIS, Indonesia This year’s BRIC Summit, to be held in mid-April in China, will mark the entry of South Africa into membership of the group. The economies of BRICS (now...
View ArticleEmerging powers and the global system
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, EAF Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) were identified as the global economic powers of the future in a famous Goldman Sachs report in 2003. Now South Africa...
View ArticleBRICS can provide a fall-back option
Author: Rajiv Kumar, FICCI According to some media reports the Delhi BRICS summit, fourth for the original grouping with Brazil, Russia, India and China as its members, and the second since South...
View ArticleConcert or cacophony? BRICS and the foundations of a new international order
Authors: Brad Glosserman, CSIS, Peter Walkenhorst and Ting Xu, Bertelsmann Foundation The most recent sign of the global order’s age and obsolescence was the BRICS summit held in New Delhi on 29 March...
View ArticleChina’s limited participation in global governance
Authors: Hongying Wang, University of Waterloo, and Erik French, Syracuse University China’s rise has been the subject of a great deal of debate over the last two decades. Scholars and policy makers...
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