Dr Rajendran Govender, centre, with Professor Sachin Kumar Sharma, Director General of Research and Information System (RIS), India, left, and Dr Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Coordinator of DAKSHIN RIS, India.
WHEN the leaders of the BRICS nations gather in New Delhi on September 12 and 13, they will meet at a moment when the architecture of international relations is undergoing profound change.
Wars and geopolitical tensions, climate change, artificial intelligence, inequality, food and energy insecurity, disrupted supply chains and growing demands for reform of global institutions have created a world in which the old centres of power can no longer provide all the answers.
It is against this background that BRICS has assumed increasing significance.
For the ordinary reader, BRICS can sometimes appear to be another acronym in the alphabet soup of international diplomacy. Yet its evolution tells an important story about the changing balance of global power.
