BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa): Shaping the New Global Architecture

The conference will gather five leading experts who will address how each respective BRICS nation views its inclusion in this group and the broader political,economic, and social challenges that these countries pose to the traditional advanced economies.

The original BRIC acronym traces its origins to a 2001 paper by Jim O’Neill, a Goldman Sachs economist, which analyzed the emergence of these countries aseconomic powerhouses. Over the intervening 10 years, this term has come to symbolize the growing power of the world’s largest emerging economies and their potential challenge to the developed G7 economies. At the same time, it remains unclear to what extent the BRICS countries represent a cohesive unit – or justa clever acronym. Substantive differences in economic performance, demographictrends, and geopolitical interests all raise questions about the future performanceof these countries both individually and as a collective unit.
 
The conference will gather five leading experts who will address how each respective BRICS nation views its inclusion in this group and the broader political,economic, and social challenges that these countries pose to the traditional advanced economies. After each individual country report, a round table discussion will be moderated by the Wilson Center’s Amy Wilkinson on the future prospects of the BRICS countries.

Who:   

Moderator: Amy M. Wilkinson, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government,Harvard University, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center

João Augusto de Castro Neves, Founding Partner, CACPolitical Consultancy, and Contributing Editor, Politics and Foreign Policy, TheBrazilian Economy

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor, Global Affairs,Moscow

Inderjit Singh, Professor of Economics and Strategic Studies, National War College Wei Da, Director and Research Professor, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Francis A. Kornegay, Research Associate, Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria

Seating for this event is open to the public and is available on a first-come/first-served basis.
 
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