The BRICS and Coexistence: An Alternative Vision of World Order

220 Pages·2014·0.99 MB·English

by  Cedric de Coning

The BRICS and Coexistence
The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC)
was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon
referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies. How-
ever, these countries identified with the BRIC concept, and started to
meet annuallyas agroup in2009. At their fourth summitin2011, they
added South Africa to become the BRICS. By then the BRICS had
fully morphed from investment jargon to a name for a new economic
and political grouping that had the potential to challenge the unipolar
hegemonyof the United States and its Western allies.
This work analyzes the extent to which the concept of coexistence
explainstheindividualforeignpoliciesoftheBRICScountries,defining
coexistence as a strategy that promotes the establishment of a rule-
based system for co-managing the global order. It recognizes that dif-
ferent states may legitimately pursue their own political and economic
interests,buttheydosowithintheboundsofarule-basedinternational
system that ensures the peaceful coexistence of states.
The BRICS and Coexistence addresses the political dimension of the
emergence and influence of the BRICS in the international system and
will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, Development
and International Relations.
Cedric de Coning heads the Peace Operations and Peacebuilding
Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
(NUPI) and he is also a Senior Advisor on Peacekeeping and Peace-
building for the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of
Disputes (ACCORD).
Thomas Mandrup is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Danish
Defense College, Denmark, and an external lecturer at the Centre for
African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Liselotte Odgaard is an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish
Defense College.
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The BRICS and Coexistence
An alternative vision of world order
Edited by
Cedric de Coning, Thomas Mandrup
and Liselotte Odgaard
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgments xii
List of abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
CEDRICDECONING,THOMASMANDRUPANDLISELOTTEODGAARD
1 BRICS and coexistence 25
CEDRICDECONING
2 Brazil as a rising power: coexistence through universalism 49
ADRIANAERTHALABDENUR
3 Russia, BRICS, and peaceful coexistence: between idealism
and instrumentalism 75
FLEMMINGSPLIDSBOELHANSENANDALEXANDERSERGUNIN
4 Indian foreign policy and coexistence: continuity and change
in the post-Cold War era 100
SURUPAGUPTAANDSHIBASHISCHATTERJEE
5 China and coexistence: Beijing’s policies on energy, United
Nations Security Council diplomacyand sovereignty disputes 125
LISELOTTEODGAARDANDZHADAOJIONG
6 South Africa’s “diplomacy of ubuntu”: an African approach
to coexistence? 149
THOMASMANDRUPANDKARENSMITH
viii Contents
7 Conclusion: coexistence in between world order
and national interest 171
CEDRICDECONING,THOMASMANDRUPANDLISELOTTEODGAARD
Index 182
Routledge Global Institutions Series 192
Contributors
Adriana Erthal Abdenur (PhD Princeton, AB Harvard) is a Professor
at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and researcher at the
BRICS Policy Center. Her research and publications focus on rising
powers, international development, and security. Recent publica-
tionsincludetwoeditedvolumesontheBRICS,aswellasarticlesin
Third World Quarterly, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s International
Reports, and Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional. She was
General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center from 2011 to
2013,and isaformerfellowoftheIndia-ChinaInstitute aswellasa
Fulbright Research grantee.
Shibashis Chatterjee is Associate Professor and Head, Department of
International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He specia-
lizes in international relations theory. He was a recipient of the
SEPHIS-CODESRIA Fellowship to Makerere University, Kam-
pala, in 2010, Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer, Indiana Uni-
versity, Bloomington, in 2011, and Hull University Conference
Fellow in August 2011. The author of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
andtheProblemofThresholdStates(1999),and co-editor of Under-
standing Global Politics (2004), Anatomy of Fear (2004), Indian
Foreign Policy (2009), Power, Commerce and Influence (2009), he
has published extensively in national and international journals and
edited volumes.
Cedric de Coning (South Africa) heads the Peace Operations Research
Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI),
and he is also a Senior Advisor on Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
for ACCORD. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals
Global Governance and Peacebuilding. His main research focus on
AU, EU and UN peace operations and peacebuilding policies and