The international organisation of BRICS, which currently encompasses 9 states, operates on the principles of equality, non-interference and mutual benefit. Considering the unconstructive and aggressive politics of the Collective West, led by the United States, BRICS is attracting an increasing number of countries opposed to monopoly and the dictate of the unipolar world structure, and is slowly forming a multipolar world. However, a candidate’s understandable interest does not automatically guarantee membership in BRICS.

Attractiveness of BRICS

The multipolar world is objectively presented as an alternative to the unipolar world order, as it creates a more just and dynamic system of international relations. Perhaps the prospect of a new world order is not as stable as the bipolar world of the second half of the 20th century, where two macropolitical, ideological, economic and military systems formed strict rules of competition and provided guarantees of strategic security and peace to exclude a nuclear catastrophe.

However, in the conditions of turbulent modern processes, where the West – at the helm of which stand the United States – creates cyclical crises and sows chaos, does not take into account modern economic transformations and interconnections, ignores the interests of major powers and peoples, the request for global integration of the proponents of an alternative structure of international relations is real and understandable. In this regard, the BRICS organisation, which unites the largest (in terms of number, area, raw materials, development rates, economic and military potential) states of the world, can become a political and economic reflection of the new multipolar world.

BRICS or BRICS-plus

Brazil, Russia, India and China founded this organisation at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2006. Since the accession of South Africa in November 2010, it has been known as BRICS and from 2024 onwards, it has become BRICS after the accession of five more important states (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia). By the autumn of 2024, at the organisation’s 15th summit in Kazan (Russia), the number of member states may again expand by........

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