"After providing a brief overview of relations between India, Brazil and South Africa after the end of the Cold War, this chapter recounts the intellectual origins of IBSA, the motivations that led the three countries to create the grouping, and two instances of successful cooperation, one...

OECD countries still dominate the world economy, but their share of world trade dropped from 73% in 1992 to 64% in 2005, and some of the world’s most important economies are not members of the OECD. Foremost among these are the so-called BRIICS: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and...