A Geopolitical Assessment of Turkey's Admittance to BRICS

Abstract

During the 2018 BRICS Summit, President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared his intention to join BRICS - a block of multisectoral cooperation composed by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This paper focuses on the political and security, and economic sectors of cooperation to provide a geopolitical assessment of Turkeys admittance and identify positive and negative implications for BRICS and for Brazil. As geopolitical elements of Turkey population, geographic position, military power, history its political and security goals, and its promising economy have the potential to advance BRICS goals the recommendation is that BRICS accepts the admittance and that Brazil encourages it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2019
Accession Number
AD1177400

Entities

People

  • Mauricio C Souza

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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  • Biomedical
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  • Agreements
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  • Geopolitics
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  • Political science

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
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