The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft

In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive international club, the BRICS. Although not extreme revisionists, the BRICS recognize an ongoing global power shift and contest the West's pretensions to permanent stewardship of the existing economic order. Together they exercise collective financial and monetary statecraft to achieve larger foreign policy goals. The BRICS share common resentments-of U.S. dominance of the global financial system, of playing junior roles in economic governance, and of serving as frequent targets of financial sanctions. They also share common objectives, such as obtaining greater financial autonomy and influence within the Bretton Woods institutions. Their financial statecraft ranges from pressure for the internal reform of international organizations and markets to operating outside the system through the creation of both new multilateral institutions and opportunity structures in international financial markets. To the surprise of many observers, the joint actions of the BRICS have been largely successful. The BRICS' future depends not only on their bargaining power and ability to successfully adjust to market shifts, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to sustainable economic growth, which is the ultimate basis for their international influence.

Business & Money

ROBERTS, Cynthia

Armijo, Leslie

Katada, Saori

International

Oxford University Press

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The Parents' Guide to the Delaware Valley

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Camino Books

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Captive Heart (Iroquois Confederacy Series)

Literature & Fiction

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Alana Waverly, is a strong, professional woman, who finds herself a victim of a failing economy. She is complex, because her struggle is evident in every circumstance she is forced to face. When we first meet her, she is at the lowest point in her life. Rather than being saved by outside influences, she rallies from a multitude of situations most people could never endure, or will face in a lifetime. Slowly, she perseveres these unfortunate events and; she realizes her full potential, because her struggles and her ability to overcome them, comes from deep within. Fate brings Dylan Clayburn into her life, quite by accident and at the worse time possible. He is drawn to the beauty, who lives in his apartment building. Every time their paths cross, he is attracted to her like a moth to a flame, despite her constant indifference towards him. Dylan is an accomplished business man. He is also a patient man, who loves a challenge and uses his charms from the very beginning of their introduction to slowly chip away at her hard reserve. This Too Shall Pass emulates how life can be an assaulting hardship and an inspirational drama of love, optimism, inner-strength, and hopefulness.

This Too Shall Pass

Genre Fiction

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Romance

Contemporary

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Patience (Learn About Values)

Children's Books

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