1st Edition
The Making of BRICS What It Is, What It Does, and What It Gets You
1 Introduction and Conceptual Foundations 2 From Market Label to Political Formation 3 The Early BRICS: Summitry, Routinisation, and Self-Conscious Grouping 4 Selective Institutionalisation: Why BRICS Thickens Unevenly 5 What BRICS Does I: Material Functions, Organisational Outputs, and Governance Mechanisms 6 What BRICS Does II: Signalling, Alignment, and Representational Politics 7 What BRICS Gets You: Membership Utility, Affiliation, and Strategic Attraction 8 Expansion and Institutional Transformation 9 What BRICS Is Becoming 10 Conclusion: Rethinking Political Platforms in Global Governance
Biography
Juan Pablo Sims is Assistant Professor at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile, where he researches emerging powers, Latin American foreign policy, and contested multipolarity. His work examines how middle and peripheral states navigate shifting forms of great-power coordination in the contemporary international system.
Brice Tseen Fu Lee is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research focuses on strategic hedging in the Global South, global governance and emerging institutions, and comparative hegemony across Southeast Asia and Latin America.
