The US Stake in a BRICS+ Order

Toward the end of last year, I contributed to a roundtable discussion on BRICS (BRICS+ since expansion) within the latest magazine issue of Hemispheres—published for the first time this past winter. I provide an overview of how the intergovernmental economic forum known as BRICS came into being after the Great Recession, in reaction to the perceived failures of existing multilateral institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, and outline the significance of its 2023 expansion in membership. My co-authors then proceed to debate whether or not BRICS+ poses a threat to US global hegemony. See the digital version here, pp. 15–17.