The Role of BRICS in Large-Scale Armed Conflict - Building a Multi-Polar World Order

This book explores how BRICS countries respond to, and get involved in, large scale armed conflict. It argues that through responding to armed conflict and deviating from the preferred Western foreign policy, BRICS countries are actively involved in building a multi-polar and post-western world order. The author develops a concise typology of response types portraying a nuanced picture of the BRICS grouping. Responses reach from non-coercive and cooperative multi-lateral behaviour reaching to neo-imperial unilateralism and military intervention. The book explains the selection of response types with reference to six variables which refer to the proximity to war, availability of power resources, the type of conflict, economic interests, the BRICS normative agenda and global humanitarian norms. Four armed conflicts in Libya, Syria, South Sudan and the Ukraine are chosen to illustrate the BRICS engagement with large scale armed conflicts.

List of contents

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: The BRICS Global Order Between Transition and Coexistence.- 2. Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework: Modelling BRICS Response to Armed Conflict.- 3. Chapter 3: Libya: From R2P to Regime Change-The BRICS Awakening.- 4. Chapter 4: Syria: The World Order Unchallenged or Power Politics Above All Else?.- 5. Chapter 5: Ukraine: Moving Borders Changing Orders?.- 6. Chapter 6: South Sudan: BRICS Active Mediator or Bystander to Conflict?.- 7. Chapter 7: Conclusion: The BRICS Order in the Making

About the author

Malte Brosig is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa

Report

"The Role of BRICS in Large-Scale Armed Conflict is warmly recommended as a thoughtful contribution and critique of the BRICS in international relations." (South African Journal of International Affairs, April 28, 2020)

Product details

• Authors: Malte Brosig
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9783030185367
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3018536-7
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 211 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 205 p. 3 illus.
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Diplomatie, B, Peace, Krieg und Verteidigung, Conflict Studies, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, International Relations, foreign policy, Warfare & defence, Political Science and International Studies, Diplomacy, Peace studies & conflict resolution, International Security Studies, Security, International, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Military studies, Emerging economies, BRICS global order, political conflict response, emerging threats, large scale armed conflict