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Russia between East, West and North: Comments on the History of Moral Mapping
P. 72–106.
Khomyakov Maxim
The ideas of Global South and Global North today seem to have substituted the previous geo-political notion of an East–West divide as well as the concepts of the First, Second and Third worlds. The chapter discusses self-description of Russia in terms of the four cardinal points: East, West, North and South starting from eighteen century onwards. The author draw from the rich reservoir of Russian literature and philosophy.
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This report presents the first comprehensive competition analysis of global grain value chains. It examines the market power of ABCD+ traders (ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, et al.), financialization of grain trade, and the anticompetitive effects of digitalization. The report offers recommendations for BRICS competition authorities, including design principles for a BRICS Grain Exchange. ...
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Voitov S., Анализ и прогноз. Журнал ИМЭМО РАН 2026 № 1 С. 70–82
The article explores the discursive differences among think tanks from Brazil, China, India, and South Africa regarding two key informal forums of global governance — BRICS and the Group of Twenty (G20). The decision to take think tanks from these countries is justified by their participation in both forums, which enables to assess how their ...
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Alexander Sergunin, , in: International Trade and Economic Development in BRICS.: Singapore: Springer, 2026. Ch. 1 P. 1–18.
This study examines how the main IR and IPE theories interpret the BRICS phenomenon. The goal is not only to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of these theories, but also to identify their heuristic potential for studying such a complex phenomenon as the BRICS. ...
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Sergunin A. A., Singapore: Springer, 2026.
The central thesis of this work is that the long-term viability and coherence of BRICS will be determined not by the mere fact of its economic aggregation, but by its capacity to manage the profound tensions between its centripetal objectives and its centrifugal internal dynamics. ...
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Klimov I., В кн.: Некоммерческие организации в странах БРИКС: структура сектора и особенности развития.: BRICS Expert Council-Russia, 2026. Гл. 10 С. 193–228.
The text systematizes research, data, and analytics on the Russian nonprofit sector. The economic characteristics and their dynamics, the structure of sector financing, the specifics of interaction with the state, priority areas of activity, participation in the implementation of public policy and involvement in national projects and programs are given. It also describes the difficulties ...
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Klimov I., Chepeleva M., Gavrilov K. et al., Civil BRICS Council, 2026.
This research study was conducted at the initiative of the Civil BRICS Council for the purpose
of performing a systemic analysis of the non-profit sector (hereinafter, the ‘NPO sector’),
encompassing both non-profit organizations (NPOs) and non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), in each of the constituent member countries of BRICS. Since February 2025, BRICS
has consisted of 10 member states: Brazil, China, ...
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Biryuk D., В кн.: Государственное и муниципальное управление: актуальные проблемы и современные тренды.: СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский университет технологий управления и экономики, 2026. С. 95–99.
This article presents a comparative analysis of the practices of BRICS countries in assessing and accounting for budgetary obligations arising from concession and public-private partnership (PPP) projects. The selection of BRICS nations is justified by their status as major emerging economies actively employing PPPs for infrastructure financing and facing similar challenges in fiscal risk management. ...
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The article examines the autumn 2025 protests in Madagascar as an episode of socio-political destabilization combining features of a coupvolution and Generation Z protest mobilization. The Malagasy events represent the first case in Africa where Generation Z protests culminated in regime change, with the military playing a decisive role—aligning this episode with the coupvolutions in ...
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In the global trend towards urbanization, small towns play an essential role in ensuring balanced spatial development, serving as a link between rural and highly urbanized areas. The BRICS countries, comprising almost half of the world’s population and a significant portion of global GDP, have demonstrated a variety of approaches to working with small towns. ...
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Vicentin D. C., Salati Marcondes de Moraes G. H., Brandão Fischer B. et al., Technovation 2026 Vol. 150 Article 103438
International scientific collaboration among BRICS countries has intensified in recent years, particularly in the field of science, technology, and innovation (STI). Yet, the underlying cultural and institutional dynamics shaping these partnerships remain underexplored, features that are key to understanding collaborative practices among such a heterogeneous group of countries. We address this gap by investigating how ...
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This article presents a comparative analysis and conceptual differentiation of the terms “World Majority” and
“Global South”, both of which have gained prominence amid the ongoing transformation of the international order.
Special attention is given to their genesis, ideological foundations, and political-identificational characteristics. To this
end, the authors develop a framework of three analytical dimensions encompassing demographic, institutional-legal ...
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This book brings together original insights from diverse researchers across BRICS nations, offering a multidimensional analysis of recurring socio-economic, cultural, and political challenges. Through a comparative lens, it explores key themes such as identity formation, racialized discrimination, shifting consumption patterns, subaltern counter-publics, social engineering, indigenous knowledge systems, technological advancements, employment dynamics, and the impact of ...
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Strelnikova I., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 522 С. 130–143
The Arctic, becoming the so-called bifurcation point of international relations, is of interest today not only for Arctic but also for non-Arctic countries, as well as for Russian and foreign researchers, as a new system of international relations is being formed in the region. Being in a situation of limited opportunities and sanctions pressure, Russia ...
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Larichev A., Журнал российского права 2025 Т. 29 № 11 С. 164–177
In addition to national norms that define the functioning of local selfgovernment in the state, there are principles and standards established in international agreements to which this state is a party. The aim of the research is to examine the systems of international norms applicable to local self-government issues in the BRICS countries and to ...
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Boklan D., Московский журнал международного права 2025 No. 4 P. 24–34
INTRODUCTION. This article discusses how such principle of international law as principle of cooperation develops within the BRICS. The choice of this topic is based on the fact that today we are facing crisis of classical international organizations, such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization on the one hand and on the ...
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Mazaev V. D., Кузнецов И. Н., Журнал зарубежного законодательства и сравнительного правоведения 2025 Т. 21 № 6 С. 13–24
When studying Russian federalism, the problem of dissonance inevitably arises between the constitutionally established model of cooperative federalism and the actual constitutional practice of interaction between the center and the regions. At the same time, recent constitutional and legal transformations in the Russian Federation indicate the formation of a steady trend towards strengthening cooperation between ...
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Матвеев А. Г., Martyanova Е., BRICS Law Journal 2022 P. 144–173
Ubiquitous computerization and digitalization are contributing to the unprecedented growth of the software market. Computer programs are protected as subject of copyright law in international law and domestic legal systems. However, copyright law does not protect the interests of the copyright holder from borrowing ideas and algorithms which often have agreat commercial value. This circumstance ...
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Kapoor N., Journal of Eurasian Studies 2025
The idea of world majority, floated by Russian experts after 2022, seeks to simultaneously offer a foreign policy direction for the country while also building a meta-category to define the non-western world. As an emerging concept, this article seeks to be one of the first systematic approaches towards understanding what the world majority stands for ...
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Pushkarev V. V., Solomatina A., BRICS Law Journal 2025 Vol. 12 No. 4 P. 167–190
Modern society has witnessed the rapid pace at which the digital transformation is taking place in all public spheres without any exception. In parallel, there are obvious and dangerous processes of crime digitalization, with unprecedented growth rate of crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies. With the development of information technology and the expansion of ...
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Гаман-Голутвина О.В., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 1 С. 4–24
The article is devoted to clarifying the heuristic possibilities of the case-based approach (case study) in comparative political science. This approach correlates with ideographic knowledge within the framework of the division of epistemology into nomothetic (comprehension of patterns) and ideographic (descriptive) sciences (W. Windelband); with understanding knowledge within the framework of the distinction between explanatory ...
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Ufimtsev A., Замесина С. Н., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 1 С. 68–88
This article explores the integration of new African BRICS members into the scientific and educational cooperation within BRICS. Despite significant criticism regarding the still limited scope of scientific collaborations between BRICS countries, there is a steadily growing number of interaction formats in the fields of science, technology, and education. To provide an accurate assessment, the ...
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