Patrick Bond
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South Africa’s ‘Government of Neoliberal Unity’ is constructed on shaky ground
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Boris Kagarlitsky and the future of the Russian left
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Oil jabber heard in Dubai: Top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28
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BRICS+ emerge from Johannesburg humbled as sub- (not anti- or inter-) imperialists
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The Johannesburg BRICS Summit’s unrealistic hype
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The BRICS spall, fall and (try to) reconstitute
Early March 2022 provided a surprising reflection of the extent to which dominant Western norms of international finance could retain hegemony, even as the world’s North-South polarisation suddenly worsened. The Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) was set up by five countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) – at a 2014 Brazilian conference of presidents.