The BRICS: A Variety of Analyses

The 20 March 2013 issue of Pambazuka News is devoted to a series of brief analyses written by nationals in BRICS' countries on the BRICS.

The following contributions are especially noteworthy:

• "Will BRICS Change the Course of History?" by Oliver Stuenkel, professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo.
• "Will SA's New Pals Be So Different from the West?" by Peter Fabricius, foreign editor of the Independent Newspapers in South Africa.
• "BRICS Viewed from Russia," by Vladimir Shubin, principal research fellow at the Institute for African Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• "Future Trajectories for BRICS," by Achin Vanaik, professor at the University of Delhi political science department.