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    Land grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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    Brazil: from cursed legacy to compromised hope?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Brazil provided perhaps the best hope for social movements that the rise of blocs like IBSA or BRICS might offer new opportunities for progressive economic and social transformation in our globalised world.
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    China rising: a new world order or an old order renewed?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    China’s remarkable economic performance over more than thirty five years and its transformation into one of the world’s biggest trading powers, has led many to believe that it will be the successor to the US in global dominance.
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    Emerging powers: rise of the South or a reconfiguration of elites?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    That we are in the midst of an ongoing historical process whereby certain powers in the South are clearly rising and will exercise growing weight in the wider comity of nations is self-evident.
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    Emerging powers in a changing world

    Institute of International Relations, Greece, 2014
    The scope of this paper goes beyond Greece’s neighbourhood and examine different countries that are collectively called as ‘Rising Powers’. Selectively, the authors pick and examine the topics considered as the most important  from each of the following six countries: China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.
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    Institute of International Relations, Greece (IDIS)

    Thnk tank covering Greek/ foreign relations, emerging powers, governance issues.
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    The rise of emerging Asia: regional peace and global security

    Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2013
    The rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several effects on regional peace and global security. The power transition perspective overstates the risk of conflict that results from convergence between dominant and challenger states.
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    A ‘Third Umpire’ for policing in South Africa: applying body cameras in the Western Cape

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Technological innovations are having a profound effect on the form and content of policing. But what are the possibilities for the use of these new technologies for improving law enforcement in the global South? A new initiative led by the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute is testing this question.
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    Russia’s nuclear security policy: priorities and potential areas for cooperation

    Stanley Foundation, 2015
    The crisis over Ukraine has led to a drastic reduction in regular official Russian-US contacts in most areas, including those where it is in the two countries’ mutual national security interests to work together. Bilateral cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security has been among the affected areas.
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    Delivering effective social assistance: does politics matter?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    Social assistance programmes are tax-financed programmes directed by public agencies with the objective of reducing, preventing, and eventually eradicating poverty. This paper examines the significance of politics in the rise of social assistance programmes in developing countries in the last decade.

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