Exploring to what extent the BRICS group is a significant actor challenging the global order, this book focuses on the degree and consequence of their emergence and explores how important cooperation is to individual BRICS members' foreign policy strategies and potential relevance as leaders in regional and global governance.

Chapter 1 (Introduction) The International Political Economy of Emerging Powers: Attitudes and Actualities Chapter 2 Can the BRICS think? Towards a Power/Knowledge Transition in International Relations Chapter 3 Theorizing the BRICS: Does the BRICS Conform or Provide an Alternative to the Current Global Order? Chapter 4 The Domestic Foundations of Emerging and Established State Trade Cooperation Chapter 5 The Role of Declining Brazil and Ascending China into the BRICS Initiative Chapter 6 China and the BRICS: the Dual Complexities of Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony Chapter 7 Brazil as an Emerging Power: The Impact of Its International and Internal Deterioration on the BRICS Chapter 8 Brazil in the BRICS after 10 Years: Past, Present and Near Future Perspectives Chapter 9 Russia and the BRICS: On the Actual Performance of a 21st Century Great Power Concert Chapter 10 India - Dreaming with the BRICS?Chapter 11Geographies of Hope and Exploitation: South Africa, Africa Rising and the Global Turn to the BRICS