Summit in Russia: Putin emerges as the winner and BRICS can become “a formidable counterweight to Western institutions”
“China wants hegemony, India wants equality with China, Russia needs friends to survive.” Three world powers with ambitious aspirations, the allied states are represented at the 16th BRICS summit (taking place until Thursday) by leaders who have a new idea of the world. This is what Alexander Motyl, professor of Political Science at Rutgers-Newark University, in the United States of America, and author of several works on Ukraine and Russia, argues. In Kazan, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, Vladimir Putin wanted to convey the message that the group now represents the global majority, with the potential to dominate a new global order that is approaching. In fact, the now expanded alliance represents around 45% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s GDP, according to “Al Jazeera”.
The original five – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are increasingly less alone. In 2023, the BRICS extended invitations to Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, after these countries requested membership. Saudi Arabia has not yet formally joined, but the rest have already been integrated.
