From post-BRICS’ decade to post-2015: insights from global governance and comparative regionalisms

Abstract

2015 is a symbolic turning point for "development" as eight UN MDGs are superseded by even more SDGs with a focus on global partnerships. This paper exploits the "post-2015" mantra to ask whether the rise of the BRICS and myriad non-state actors/ coalitions, let alone the difficulties of the PIIGS in the Eurozone, suggests that "development" has become passé: Does the rise of "emerging" economies/powers in the current decade mean that we need another paradigm, such as "global governance" along with "new regionalisms"? This overview seeks to identify some of the parameters of international relations/organization/law/political economy for the embryonic Palgrave Communications

Global governance: present and future

“…A huge diversification of financial sources of development aid complicates the task of applying a common framework, based on individuals' needs and development interests approach. In addition, the supply of development resources including official development assistance is also moving away from the old North towards the BRICs and other new official donors such as South Korea and Turkey, plus private foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, faith-based organizations, remittances from diasporas, heterogeneous SWFs and a plethora of Exchange-Traded Funds as well as novel sources of finance such as taxes on carbon, emissions, financial transactions and so forth (Shaw, 2015).…”

open access journals: a sustainable and scalable solution in social and political sciences?

“…(Hrynaszkiewicz and Acuto, 2015), including a contribution from the political sciences (Shaw, 2015). In the journal, peer reviewers are asked to consider not just whether methods used were sound but also that strong evidence is provided for the conclusions, whether the results are novel, and whether the manuscript is important to specific fields and/or is important in interdisciplinary terms (http://www.palgravejournals.com/palcomms/referees).…”

Not all that glitters is gold.

“…modalidades: una entre los propios países en desarrollo, otra entre éstos y las potencias emergentes, y una tercera que vincula a los emergentes entre sí. Mientras que para la primera sigue siendo válida la literatura predominante de las RRII, y para la tercera encontramos una vasta literatura referida a los BRICS y sus alcances y limites (Da Silva, 2014, Oropeza García, 2011, Shaw 2015, entre otros), la vinculación entre potencias emergentes y países en desarrollo ha sido menos estudiada. Uno de los casos que puede mencionarse es el de Muhr (2014) y también Schoeman (2011).…”