“…The second group of scholars that has examined the BRICS's role in global governance considers their ascent as a challenge to the current international order. This group focuses on the domestic sources of the BRICS nations' preferences regarding global governance, which allows for the assessment of the heterogeneity of and differences among the BRICS countries (Heldt and Schmidtke, 2017;Hopewell, 2017;Lavenex et al, 2017;Noelke et al, 2015;Schirm, 2013Schirm, , 2019Stephen, 2014Stephen, , 2017Stuenkel, 2016). These scholars focus on the BRICS nations' attempts to increase their power in different areas of global governance, creating a multipolar structure to global politics (Chakraborty, 2018;Petropoulos, 2013;Roberts, 2019;Yang, 2019).…”