This book analyses the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic implications of the expanding BRICS bloc and the extent to which this tridimensional dynamic impacts global security, peace and sustainable development. It unravels simultaneously the contradictions and converging policies within the bloc, which stem from its member states diverse and vibrant political, economic and development philosophies, while advancing the agenda of a multipolar against the dominance of the Bretton Wood institutions. The bloc envisions new pathways to a fair global trade, particularly with the Grand South and Western Asiabased on the experiences of the emerging markets such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and Russia. The alliances potential to shape global governance in the areas where Western influence has been prevalent, namely in security technology, peace and sustainability is tested vis-ą-vis its longstanding and well-established competitors such as the EU and the G7. This cutting-edge scholarly work is a must-read for everyone.
Chapter 1: The Sustainability of Expanding BRICS: Global Peace, Security
and Sustainable Development.- Part I: EXPANDED BRICS OVERVIEW.
Chapter 2:
The Dynamics of Polarised Pluralism: On the Benefits, Challenges, and Threats
of a Constantly Changing Fragmented World Order.
Chapter 3: BRICS Expansion:
Geopolitical, Geostrategic and Geoeconomic Implications.
Chapter 4: BRICS:
Minus x Minus = Plus?.- Part II: PEACE AND SECURITY.
Chapter 5: China and
contemporary UN peace operations: development by what means?.
Chapter 6:
Integrated BRICS Maritime Security.
Chapter 7: Divergent BRICS Positions on
Reform of the United Nations Security Council and African Security.
Chapter
8: The Importance of Achieving Technological Sovereignty as a Key Component
of National Security in the Conditions for the Creation of a Multipolar
World.
Chapter 9: ICTs in the Context of International Security: A
South-South Cooperation Approach.
Chapter 10: Migrant Burden and its
Implications for Peace and Security in South Africa: A Cosmopolitan and
Communitarian Debate.
Chapter 11: Effects of Soft Power Diplomacy on Peace
and Security in BRICS+ Nations: The Case of South Africa.
Chapter 12: A
Critical Evaluation of the Thucydides Trap as Underpinning BRICS
Multilateralism as an Alternative to Global Peace and security.- Part III:
BRICS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE.
Chapter 13: BRICS Challenging the EU in the
Balkans: The Case of Serbia.
Chapter 14: The US- China Trade Wars amid the
Covid-19 Era and the Futuristic of the Phase One Deal.
Chapter 15:
Ethiopias Entry to BRICS and Its Implications for Regional Security in the
Horn of Africa.
Chapter 16: Peace and Security in SADC: Understanding the
Circumstances Surrounding South Africas Participation in SAMIM.- Part IV:
Peace and Security in SADC: Understanding the Circumstances Surrounding South
Africas Participation in SAMIM.
Chapter 17: BRICS Contribution to
Addressing Youth Unemployment in South Africa.
Chapter 18: Should Turkey
Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? Political Economy Dynamics,
Handicaps and a Synthesis.
Chapter 19: Does BRICS New Enlargement Policy
Foster a Developmental Peace in the Middle East?.
Chapter 20: BRICS
Expansion: Economic and Financial Cooperation
Chapter 21: BRICS Economic
Powerhouse Driving Global Sustainability.
Chapter 22: Bridging the Policy
Divide: Addressing Climate Policy Disparities among the Expanded BRICS in
Achieving the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development.
Jean Chrysostome Kimbuku Kiyala (Dr.) is a Senior Lecturer at the International Centre of Nonviolence in the Faculty of Management Sciences at Durban University of Technology; Associate Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Bandundu and the Evangelical University in Africa (DR Congo), and the University of the Seychelles.
Ndivhuho Tshikovhi (Dr.) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Durban University of Technology under the Executive Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences. He holds a doctorate in social and political sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He also studied at Fudan University, China, and the University of Mannheim, Germany.
Dumisani Maqeda Ngwenya (Dr.) is a senior lecturer in Peace and Security Studies at the Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. He views himself as a practitioner-academic. He holds a Masters in Peace and Conflict studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal and a PhD in Peacebuilding from the Durban University of Technology.
Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera (Prof.) is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), tasked with developing the DUT Business School. He currently heads the BRICS Research Institute located within DUT, funded by The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
