multipolarity. Several indices of the relative material capabilities of countries exist, yet few address a state's potential for … importance. An increase in the share of the BRICS countries, especially China, mirrors a strong decline in the global weight of … Japan (still a senior financial power), and to a lesser extent, most other advanced industrial countries, with the exception …

Indian policy makers have welcomed India's framing as a "rising power" and celebrated the BRICS initiative as a common …. Assessing New Delhi’s multilateral and geo-strategic diplomacy, this article argues that India bandwagons with the BRICS on a … front in reforming aspects of global governance. Yet China's rise in Asia has unsettled the balances of power which have …

contributions collected in this book assess major M&A deals in the largest emerging capital markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China …