BRICS: Leadership in the Making

CINTIA QUILICONI; MARCELO SAGUIER; DIANA TUSSIE

Area RRII FLACSO/Argentina - Serie Doc de Trabajo

Área de Relaciones Internacionales FLACSO/Argentina

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2014 p. 1 - 50

2221-9102

This paper first analyses the main topics that emerge in the BRICS agenda and how those topics affect their leadership. Then it explores the intertwined dynamics between power and leadership in these countries. To explore those dynamics the paper explores the challenges that BRICS face first at the domestic level and second at the global level analyzing how the BRICS have positioned themselves in the G20 and the WTO as a proxy of how these countries are playing a common game in the global economic sphere.