SA BRICS Chairship: from Emerging Partnership to a New World Order

 The article is devoted to the results of South Africa’s BRICS Chairship in 2023. The authors conclude that SA’s presidency, which witnessed a decision to take on new members as well as with the adoption of the final Johannesburg Declaration-II, demonstrates an increasing importance of South Africa and Africa in BRICS. With new African countries, namely Ethiopia and Egypt, joining BRICS, South Africa obviously loses its status as the only representative of the entire African continent, but it further promotes its agenda, as reflected in the Final Declaration. The article reveals an increasing role of BRICS as a whole. While at the first stage, cooperation between the member-states of the BRIC “club” was rather symbolic, we can now see the emergence of a more independent international agenda and the creation of new financial institutions, which shows that the world system is transforming towards multipolarity and inclusion.

SA BRICS Chairship, BRICS Expansion, BRICS New Development Bank, inclusive multilateralism