The Rise of the BRICS

Power, M.

doi:10.1002/9781118725771.ch28

The Rise of the BRICS

Power, M.

Authors

Professor Marcus Power marcus.power@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

J. Agnew
Editor

V. Mamadouh
Editor

A.J. Secor
Editor

J. Sharp
Editor

Abstract

Coined in 2001 by an economist at the multinational global investment firm Goldman Sachs, the “BRICs” acronym (referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China) identified a group of four countries that were, due to their scale, population size, and growing share of global GDP, regarded as the leading non-Western economies and as future motors of global accumulation. The acronym, with the addition of S for South Africa, has since come into widespread use as a symbol of the apparently epochal shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies toward the “developing world,” and the wider realignment of world economic and ultimately political power that would be engendered by the collective influence of these countries. This chapter seeks to explore the changing political geographies resulting from the rise of the BRICS and the implications for the contemporary study of international relations.

Citation

Power, M. (2015). The Rise of the BRICS. In J. Agnew, V. Mamadouh, A. Secor, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography (379-392). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118725771.ch28

Acceptance Date	Oct 7, 2015
Publication Date	Aug 14, 2015
Deposit Date	Oct 7, 2015
Pages	379-392
Series Title	Wiley Blackwell companions to geography
Book Title	The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography.
Chapter Number	28
ISBN	9781118725887
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118725771.ch28
Keywords	Emerging powers, Aid, Development, Governance, South–South cooperation.