"Viewed from the realist prism, the BRICS forum is no more than a sack of potatoes, formless and without a specific strategic orientation. As a group, BRICS have little political coherence."
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"All the forum’s members want to build a special relationship with the United States, and wish to use the forum as a leverage to expand their political space with Washington. That is part of political jockeying in a multipolar world. "
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As the US offers to reset relations with Russia, flirts with the notion of a “G-2” with China, and seeks to develop new partnerships with rising powers like India, Brazil and South Africa, there is little incentive for any one of these to build a solid anti-US block. That India has chosen to announce a new trilateral strategic dialogue with the US and Japan days before the Hainan summit of the BRICS suggests the limits of anti-Westernism as a glue binding the BRICS.
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These contradictions do not mean that India should not take the opportunity to expand political and economic engagement with the major economies represented at the forum.
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What Delhi needs to avoid is a political romanticisation of BRICS, which is only one of the many plurilateral organisations that India participates in.
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"All the forum’s members want to build a special relationship with the United States, and wish to use the forum as a leverage to expand their political space with Washington. That is part of political jockeying in a multipolar world. "
.
As the US offers to reset relations with Russia, flirts with the notion of a “G-2” with China, and seeks to develop new partnerships with rising powers like India, Brazil and South Africa, there is little incentive for any one of these to build a solid anti-US block. That India has chosen to announce a new trilateral strategic dialogue with the US and Japan days before the Hainan summit of the BRICS suggests the limits of anti-Westernism as a glue binding the BRICS.
.
These contradictions do not mean that India should not take the opportunity to expand political and economic engagement with the major economies represented at the forum.
.
What Delhi needs to avoid is a political romanticisation of BRICS, which is only one of the many plurilateral organisations that India participates in.
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