Last week’s discussions at the annual Brics Summit in Johannesburg saw the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi discuss how Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa could foster ever closer economic union.
In contrast to what we are seeing across the global north, they made some strong commitments to multilateralism. However, is this divergence in economic policy representative of a much larger divergence in global priorities?
Geopolitical turbulence between Nato powers and Russia, ongoing conflict in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, and nuclear tensions with North Korea and Iran seem to dominate the issues being discussed by supranational organisations.