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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 622: SPECIAL ISSUE: A BRICS READER FOR THE DURBAN SUMMIT The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Jobs /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features INTRODUCING BRICS FROM ABOVE AND BRICS-FROM-BELOW Patrick Bond There seem to be three narratives about BRICS. The first is promotional and mainly comes from government and allied intellectuals; the second perspective is uncertainty, typical of fence-sitting scholars and NGOs; and the third is highly critical, from forces sometimes termed the 'independent left.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86651 ****** THE BRICS COME TO DURBAN Keynote speech at the BRICS Academic Forum by South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane The BRICS are catalysts and drivers of a multipolar world, aiming to demolish the hegemony of the West in global affairs. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86652 ****** 5TH BRICS ACADEMIC FORUM RECOMMENDATIONS The academics believe BRICS have covered significant ground since the inception of the partnership and that they must build upon the progress made by consolidating the agreements reached and the achievements registered and by making further concrete proposals for realising the unfolding objectives of the bloc http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86653 ****** BRICS AS POTENTIAL RADICAL SHIFT OR JUST MERE RELOCATION OF POWER? Fatima Shabodien Although at this early stage the BRICS partnership raises more questions than answers, engaged citizens should help shape its agenda. The bloc may well turn out to be one of the single biggest developments of our era http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86654 ****** WILL SA'S NEW PALS BE SO DIFFERENT FROM THE WEST? Peter Fabricius The debate on BRICS is polarized between pro and anti-BRICS elements represented in the South African government and left-leaning civil society activists and academics. It is uncertain South Africa's new partners in BRIC will treat the country differently http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86656 ****** BRICS AND THE ANC SELL-OUT TO INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL Patrick Bond The ANC embraced neo-liberal capitalism unreservedly in 1994. Similar to the 1884 Berlin conference, the forthcoming BRICS summit in Durban will seek to divide the continent with one common objective: efficient resource extraction through export-oriented infrastructure for continued capitalist exploitation that will enrich a minority and not the masses. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86655 ****** BRICS: A SPECTRE OF ALLIANCE Anna Ochkina The weaknesses and obstacles confronting the BRICS are explored. However, the elites of the BRICS exist comfortably within the prevailing global world capitalist system and remain more of a spectre rather than a real alliance http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86657 ****** ARE BRICS 'SUB-IMPERIALISTS'? Patrick Bond BRICS offer some of the most extreme sites of new sub-imperialism in the world today. They lubricate world neoliberalism, hasten world eco-destruction and serve as coordinators of hinterland looting. The BRICS hegemonic project should be resisted. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86650 ****** BRICS VIEWED FROM RUSSIA Vladimir Shubin There are some who see BRICS as 'the Center's fifth column' whilst Russia sees it as an alternative centre of global influence despite the differing ideological viewpoints of its member states. Russia is committed to BRICS as a constraint to the ambitions of the USA, NATO and the world reactionary forces behind them http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86658 ****** BRICS AND A POTENTIALLY PROGRESSIVE SEMI-PERIPHERY Chris Chase-Dunn The fact that emerging powers are increasingly banding together and promulgating policies that challenge the hegemony of the United States and the institutions that have been produced by the European and Asian core powers indicates that semi-peripherality does not just reproduce the existing global hierarchy. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86647 ****** WILL BRICS CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY? Oliver Stuenkel The West is in decline and the world is becoming more multipolar. Emerging powers such as China, Brazil and India are clamouring for more global power. But whether they will attain this goal remains to be seen, given the odds stacked up against them. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86648 ****** FUTURE TRAJECTORIES FOR BRICS Achin Vanaik Despite much optimism, there are clear indications that BRICS lacks the capacity to function as a powerful and innovative new force in the realm of global politics and governance http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86649 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Jobs JOB ADVERT: CAMPAIGNER - NORTH AFRICA Amnesty International ( http://careers.amnesty.org ) We're looking for a Campaigner to contribute to our campaign against human rights violations in North Africa. Working at the International Secretariat, you will contribute to a range of projects, including Amnesty International's response to the momentous changes in North Africa witnessed in 2011 and 2012. You will act as a focal point, providing advice and support to our worldwide membership, including devising campaigning strategies, preparing written and other campaigning materials and providing research support. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/86678 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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