The BRIC Phantom: A comparative analysis of the BRICs as a category of rising powers

Lindsay Marie Jacobs and Ronan Van Rossem

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2014, vol. 36, issue S1, S47-S66

Abstract: The economic growth potential of the BRICs often causes the four countries to be grouped together as an analytical category of ‘rising powers’ in the global system. A neo-Weberian perspective argues that power in the global system is multidimensional and relational. The paths of the BRICs to integration in the global political, economic and military networks are compared using both material as well as relational network indicators of power. As their paths differ fundamentally, culminating in widely divergent global power positions, the BRICs cannot be classified as a category of rising powers.

Keywords: BRICs; Rising powers; Material capabilities; Relational power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.10.008

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