As BRICS has expanded its membership during the past year, it has grown to encompass nearly half of the world’s population, lending it greater credibility as a platform for reflecting an increasingly multipolar world. Yet despite this expansion, the group continues to face internal divisions.
In China, Ukraine and the Middle East, Washington will say that it is responding to aggression. But rather than working consistently for a return to the status quo it seems to actually be raising the stakes.
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Conflicting visions of the digital future are creating organizational fragmentation and ideological competition. By investing in its narrative power and building effective coalitions, the EU can strengthen multilateralism and shape global governance in the digital domain.
With the addition of new members in BRICS+, the group of emerging powers will be more globally representative—but also face more internal divisions.
People across the world are grappling with a few global technology companies’ domination of their public spheres and increasingly of other spheres of social, economic, and political engagement.
Solar geoengineering could be a climate lifeline. It’s also a gamble, with no comprehensive global governance.
A new paper, Trade Intervention for Freer Trade, Michael Pettis, a nonresident senior fellow in at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Erica Hogan, a research assistant in the Carnegie Global Order and Institutions program, assess policies that could create a new global trading system that preserves the freedom of nations to direct their economies while harnessing the benefits of trade. Please join Stewart Patrick, director of the Global Order and Institutions Program, for a conversation with Michael Pettis on these and other issues.
