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The article provides an analysis of the factors contributing to the integration of the countries in BRICS and studies the reasons for rising attention of world community to the unit. BRICS is considered as a united organization compared with rest of the world communities (for example with G7) as well as a set of countries with common specifics of development. The author divides the analogies into internal and external. Among internal analogies there are the level of socio-economic development and the political systems. The external analogies include the positions of countries in the structure of international relations, the striving for multipolarity and the emerging role in the world community that means the striving for the promotion of national interests and the similar approaches to peaceful settlement of the international conflicts. The author highlights the actual mechanisms for collaboration between the parties and the future model of cooperation. ; В статье содержится анализ факторов, способствующих объединению стран в такой блок как БРИКС, а также изучаются причины все большего внимания мирового сообщества к странам БРИКС. Блок БРИКС рассматривается и как единая организация в сравнении с остальным мировым сообществом (например, с G7), и как совокупность стран, обладающих общими чертами развития. Среди сходств автор выделяет внутренние: схожий уровень социально-экономического развития («развивающиеся страны с растущими экономиками»), сходство в системах политического управления, и внешние: сходное положение стран в структуре современных международных отношений; стремление всех стран к многополярности и усилению роли в мировом сообществе, т.е. к продвижению национальных интересов на международной арене; схожие позиции по урегулированию международных конфликтных ситуаций и т.д. Автор говорит как об уже действующих механизмах взаимодействия внутри блока («культура БРИКС»), так и о потенциально возможных.

"This book draws together leading experts to examine the key issues in China-EU relations. China-EU relations are increasingly complex and affected by a number of inter-related factors, such as China's global rise, growing China-United States strategic competition, US global withdrawal, the transatlantic split, the China-Russia comprehensive "alliance", and Brexit. The book highlights the struggles by both China and the EU to look for a dynamic and durable mode of engagement in an attempt to achieve the balance between opportunities and challenges, and between partnership and rivalry. International contributors explore how to conceptualize China-EU relations and identify their differences and commonalities such as the EU's role in China's foreign policy process and how the EU works with China as a strategic partner. Finally, it analyses China's and the EU's perceptions of their own present and future roles"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Editor's note -- 1 The international political economy of the BRICS in a changing world order: attitudes and actualities -- 2 The BRICs and knowledge production in international relations -- 3 Theorizing the BRICS: does the BRICS challenge the current global order? -- 4 The domestic foundations of emerging and established state trade cooperation -- 5 The role of declining Brazil and ascending China in the BRICS initiative -- 6 China's dual position in the capitalist world order: a dual complexity of hegemony and counter-hegemony -- 7 Brazil as an emerging power: the impact of international and internal deteriorational effect on the BRICS -- 8 Brazil in the BRICS after ten years: past, present, and near future perspectives -- 9 Russia and the BRICS: on the actual performance of a 21st century great power concert -- 10 India - Dreaming with BRICS? -- 11 Geographies of hope and exploitation: South Africa, Africa rising, and the global turn to the BRICS -- Index

'Professor Li Xing has been studying the development of emerging countries in general and China in particular for many years, and has put forward the insightful theory of 'Interdependent Hegemony'. This book represents a further deepening and extension of his theory. It is a highly valuable piece of literature.' --Lin Hongyu, Huaqiao University, China 'This book provides an authoritative overview, grounded in critical political economy, of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative and will no doubt become a benchmark for future studies of this complex and ambitious project.' -- Ian Taylor, University of St Andrews, Scotland This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world's geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the 'Belt and Road' countries and regions. It evaluates what opportunities the OBOR can offer them in light of the constraints they face, paying particular attention to how security issues may keep some nations from fully participating. Questions are also asked about the tension and conflict along the 'Belt' and 'Road', which, after all takes in the Middle East's most tumultuous regions, as well as the much disputed South China Sea. Finally, consideration is given as to how the world's other economic powers will react when the OBOR inevitably brings about capital and resource competitions. Li Xing is Professor and Director of the Research Centre on Development and International Relations at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Journal of China and International Studies.--

1. Theorizing the rise of the Second World and the changing international system / Steen F. Christiansen and Raul Bernal-Meza -- 2. Constructing and conceptualizing "interdependent hegemony" in an era of the rise of the BRICS and beyond / Li Xing and Oscar G. Agustin -- 3. BRICS and bilaterals : synergies and contestations / Renu Modi -- 4. From boulders to ashlars, BRICS of a new world order : hierarchies of power and degrees of freedom in the emerging world system of the twenty-first century / Leonid L. Fituni -- 5. G20 and C2 : Sino-US relations as an institutional cooperation game? / Lin Hongyu and Li Xing -- 6. China in Africa : cool cash or a new world order? / SØren Villadsen -- 7. A "new silk road" between China and the Arab world : a problem for the US or the EU? / Wolfgang Zank -- 8. "Chineseness" as socialization : China and the ASEAN in East Asian regionalism / Zhang Jiuan and Li Xing.

"Readers of this book are offered a non-conventional analysis of the possible outcomes brought about by the transformation of China into a mover and shaper in the contemporary international system. The book's message and conclusions are open-ended and provide a dialectical understanding of the complexities and the underlying dynamics brought about by the rise of modern-day China in the existing world order. Students and researchers of development studies and international relations will find the theoretical and methodological approaches used in the various chapters a useful tool for comprehending one of the most burning questions of our time." --Book Jacket.

This article aims to explain and analyze the complexity of the Ukraine War by scrutinizing two important factors – the China-Russia alliance and the China-US rivalry. The article demonstrates that these two factors and their interconnections largely determine the nature and trend of the developing world order. Beijing's position on the Ukraine War reflects its strategic calculations through the lens of great power rivalry between itself and Washington. The China-Russia alliance is a utility, and the Ukraine War is a good situation for Beijing and Russia to promote a new international security architecture that is not dominated by the West. The article concludes that Russia's war in Ukraine combined with the China-US rivalry and decoupling is propelling the return of conventional geopolitical competition and division. The fact that the world is divided over these events shows that we may be heading towards a multi-order world.

Artiklen analyserer kompleksiteten af Ukrainekrigen gennem granskning af to vigtige igangværende faktorer – alliancen mellem Kina og Rusland og rivaliseringen mellem Kina og USA. Artiklen viser, at disse to faktorer og deres indbyrdes forbindelser i høj grad bestemmer karakteren og tendensen i den globale orden. Kinas holdning til Ukrainekrigen afspejler landets strategiske beregninger i lyset af dets stormagtsrivalisering med USA. Alliancen mellem Kina og Rusland er et hjælpemiddel, og Ukrainekrigen er en god mulighed for de to lande til at promovere en ny international sikkerhedsarkitektur, som ikke er domineret af Vesten. Artiklen konkluderer, at Ruslands krig i Ukraine kombineret med rivalisering og afkobling mellem Kina og USA driver en tilbagevenden til konventionel geopolitisk konkurrence og splittelse. Det faktum, at verden er splittet over disse begivenheder, viser sandsynligheden for, at vi bevæger os mod en multiordensverden.