The emergence of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in the late 2000s was a response to the perceived inequities and flaws of the Western-led global order which was biased towards the Global North at the expense of the Global South.
BRICS, a coalition of some of the world’s leading emerging markets, was formed to challenge the dominance of the West in various domains including technology, international trade, international finance, global health, and global security. Global South countries became increasingly disillusioned by the US-dominated unipolar post-Cold War global order, which worked to widen the economic inequality between the developed and developing countries.
Under-represented in key global institutions like the United Nations Security Council, World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Health Organisation to…
