About the lecture

In this module, we think about who the rising powers are, with particular emphasis on the BRICS. We focus on: (i) the main criterion for establishing a country as a rising power – that it challenges existing dominant powers in the global order; (ii) the emergence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as the most important rising powers; (iii) the broader concept of rising powers, and other countries who have been seen as fitting within it, such as the Asian Tigers in the 1980s; (iv) why the rise of the BRICS is important, in terms of the challenge it poses to western dominance.

About the lecturer

Professor Indrajit Roy is Professor of Global Development Politics at the University of York. His research focuses on the international politics of economic development, the role of emerging economies (particularly the BRICS) in the contemporary global order, and the internal politics of the BRICS. He is author of Politics of the Poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India (2018).