THE POSITION OF THE BRICS TOWARD CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Abstract

Facts confirm that there is a group of rising international powers in the international system that have a set of factors that help them advance in the hierarchy of international powers. The factors include the material potentials represented by the rise of oil prices and economic growth, making them a global model in the field of innovation. The most important of these powers are the BRICS and other powers such as Japan and the European Union, although their strategic action is consistent with Western ideology. Accordingly, the availability of such factors strengthens the BRICS and enables them to play an important role in the new international order (Al-Ta’i, 2020).

According to Kıprızlı and Östem (2022), the countries of the BRICS have preferred to follow an approach aimed at enhancing the prosperity of their partners in the developing world by refining their collective identity linked to the status of emerging powers and their close relations with the world. This intellectual aspect has encouraged the BRICS to pay attention to sustainable production methods without abandoning their development ambitions. At the same time, the collective identity of the BRICS countries allowed them to respond to the challenges of climate change that threaten the social and economic development of both their own countries and other developing countries.

To clarify the BRICS position toward contemporary issues, two important aspects will be presented. They represent the focus of global attention at present: climate change and international trade, as follows: