BRICS on the Threshold of its 20th Anniversary: Results and Prospects of India’s Chairmanship

Despite serious geopolitical challenges, the intensification of confrontational trends globally, and the overall deterioration of the international situation, India is successfully and worthily conducting an active chairmanship of this major and authoritative association of Global South states.

The Business Style of India’s BRICS Chairmanship

The period of India’s fourth BRICS chairmanship (it previously led this multilateral association in 2012, 2016, and 2021) has fallen during one of the most tense moments in global politics, and New Delhi, like the organization itself, has faced serious geopolitical challenges. Under these conditions, the wise and skillful Indian leadership has been required to pursue a moderately cautious and balanced course regarding the interests of major global players, advocating for the strengthening of the non-confrontational role of this increasingly influential and attractive association in the process of forming a polycentric world order and promoting the positions of the states of the global majority. At the same time, India’s policy of balancing and commitment to strategic autonomy has manifested in its desire to maintain close partnerships, primarily with the US, the European Union, and other major players; for this reason, New Delhi consistently opposes the transformation of BRICS into an anti-Western bloc or alliance.

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