Rising Power Alliances and the Threat of a Parallel Global Order: Understanding BRICS Mobilization

Abstract

Core Contribution of the Project: The Rising Power Alliances project has developed research under the Minerva Research Initiative topic -- Power and Deterrence, Global Order: The Changing Definitions and Compositions of Global Alliances/Coalitions. In addition, the project also contributes to two other subtopics: Drivers affecting how a state or states influence, interact, cooperate, and compete with others to achieve nation-state level objectives (under Global Order) and Political, military, and social environments in rising regional powers and their implications for regional stability (under Area Studies). Project Description: Projections about the future of the global order have traditionally relied on two assumptions: that rising powers are gradually rising from within the existing global governance infrastructure and that U.S.-led institutions are robust. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are engaging in revisionist coalitions and creating new institutions or, as some argue, a parallel system, challenging U.S. global leadership. This new geopolitical dynamic is already affecting U.S. security interests, and it raises concerns that the United States could potentially be forced to contend with new and broadly legitimate globalnorms that it had no part in making. While much of the existing debate is in extremes, either envisioning a possible new Cold War or ignoring rising power alliances as an analytical unit, our ability to analyze rising power alliances and their implications has been limited. We lacktheoretical frameworks that take into account rising powers own approaches to such alliances as well as empirical approaches able to capture their multiple, complex interactions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 2023
Accession Number
AD1199376

Entities

People

  • Kelly S. Gallagher
  • Mihaela Papa

Organizations

  • Tufts University

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Africa
  • Agreements
  • Alliances
  • Availability
  • Climate Change
  • Cold War
  • Cooperation
  • Foreign Relations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • South Africa
  • Students
  • United States

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