The BRICS—merely a fable? Emerging power alliances in global trade governance

Hopewell, Kristen

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“…In addition, there is a risk that developed countries, whose teams are better-prepared to work in the forum, impose their technical influence (FATTORE, 2012). The launch of the Doha Round in 2001 could be seen as a signal of a pursuit of other means of trade liberalization by emerging markets (HOPEWELL, 2017).…”

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Forum Shopping Evidence in the World Trade Organization: A Social Network Analysis of Disputes Between Member States

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The intensification of trade between countries has led to the need to regulate the conduct of trading partners. The World Trade Organization (WTO) forum emerged with the mission of arbitrating these disputes and making trade fairer. However, many countries choose not to participate in this forum because of the financial and legal resources required to conduct the proceedings. The purpose of this research was to verify how the relations within the WTO were configurated in 2014. We identified the dichotomy between central and emerging countries through the concept of forum shopping. The most important actors in the network were shown to be the United States and the European Union, whereas small economies had low participation, especially African and Central American countries. Thus, this study shows that many WTO’s members do not use its forum, which allows inferring they choose regional forums due to the restriction of resources.

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“…Many Western-centered institutions maintain formal and informal rules that provide its most powerful (Western) members with disproportionate benefits and reflect those powers' normative understandings of international order (Ikenberry 2001). Rising powers have forcefully advocated, but with limited success, for reforms that would increase their influence in international institutions, including efforts to achieve UNSC reform, gain access to 9 leadership positions in the WTO and the Inter-Development Bank, shape international negotiations on security, trade and climate change (Hopewell 2016;Narlikar 2011;Soares and Hirst 2006). Seeking greater influence in the Western-dominated Bretton Woods institutions, rising powers have demanded increases in their relative voting shares to counter a de facto G7 veto.…”

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With Frenemies Like These: Rising Power Voting Behavior in the UN General Assembly

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Payton

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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The rise of non-Western powers has led to competing claims about how these states act among each other and how they behave vis-à-vis established powers. Existing accounts argue that the rising powers are a heterogenous group of competing states and that they are socialized into the existing Western-centered order. This article challenges these claims, arguing that the rising powers are dissatisfied with the international status quo and that they have begun to form a bloc against the established powers. The authors contend that this dissatisfaction arises from their lack of influence on the international stage, their status in the international hierarchy and the norms that sustain the current international order. They maintain that the formation of a rising powers bloc is driven by the countries’ economic growth and international dynamics, fostering their institutionalization as IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). To support this argument, the study combines spatial modeling techniques to analyze rising power voting behavior in the UN General Assembly over the period 1992–2011.

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“…1 A decade ago, the leaders of the BRIC countries started meeting on a regular basis. The activities of the BRICs qualify the group as one of the two most influential novelties in world politics in the twenty-first century (Cooper, 2016;Hopewell, 2017;Roett, 2010, pp. 5-17;Stuenkel, 2016), the other is the G20 (see below).…”

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In pursuit of self-determination and redistribution: emerging powers and Western anti-establishment voters in international politics

Schirm

2019

Global Affairs

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This essay takes up a global and comparative perspective in arguing that emerging powers and domestic anti-establishment movements in Western countries change international politics in a similar direction, since both demand more national autonomy and a redistribution of power and wealth. Both complain about an inadequate participation regarding the gains of and influence on the established order and aim at self-determination. The essay argues that Western governments' neglect of these claims has delegitimised the international order in the eyes of many Western voters and emerging powers, and stimulated nation-centered international politics, exemplified by the BRICS' initiatives and by the electoral success of Brexit and Trump. To avoid the further development of parallel orders, the concerns of emerging countries and Western anti-establishment voters should be taken seriously, even if this implies weaker supranational rules and stronger national autonomy. A more nation-centered international system might enhance legitimacy especially if democratic states were empowered, since their governments are accountable to the electorate in contrast to transnational elites.

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The BRICS—merely a fable? Emerging power alliances in global trade governance

Cited by 49 publications

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Forum Shopping Evidence in the World Trade Organization: A Social Network Analysis of Disputes Between Member States

Forum Shopping Evidence in the World Trade Organization: A Social Network Analysis of Disputes Between Member States

With Frenemies Like These: Rising Power Voting Behavior in the UN General Assembly

In pursuit of self-determination and redistribution: emerging powers and Western anti-establishment voters in international politics

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