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The BRICS and global governance: China’s contradictory role

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  • Mark Beeson
  • Jinghan Zeng

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The impact of rising powers generally and the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - in particular on the existing global order has become controversial and contested. Donald Trump’s nationalist foreign policy agenda has raised questions about the BRICS willingness and capacity to provide leadership in place on an American administration that is increasingly inward looking. As a result, the rise of BRICS poses potential normative and structural challenges to the existing liberal international order. Given its geoeconomic significance, China also poses a potential problem for the other BRICS, as well as the governance of the existing order more generally. Consequently, we argue that it will be difficult for the BRICS to maintain a unified position amongst themselves, let alone play a constructive role in preserving the foundations of ‘global governance’.

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  • Mark Beeson & Jinghan Zeng, 2018. "The BRICS and global governance: China’s contradictory role," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(10), pages 1962-1978, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:39:y:2018:i:10:p:1962-1978
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1438186
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