2013
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Jacques Fontanel et al., « BRICS, un concept statistique devenu une force politico-économique mondiale organisée », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.uzml6l
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa) are becoming an important force in the international concert of Nations. Large country with large populations, they have sometimes been the example of developing countries with endemic famine (India), socialist (Russia) or communist (China) production structures, apartheid (South Africa) or dictatorships military (Brazil). Today, they exert very different weight in the international concert, in particular China (whose conflicts with the United States make talk about ChinAmerica), Russia (nuclear power), India (and its billion inhabitant), Brazil (and its weight over Latin America) and South Africa, great economic and moral power (Mandela) of Africa. However, these countries do not always have common interests and their understanding can only be circumstantial.