Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley
Leaders of the BRICS countries at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2025 Pilar Olivares / Reuters
RICHARD FONTAINE is CEO of the Center for a New American Security. He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain.
GIBBS MCKINLEY is Research Associate to the CEO at the Center for a New American Security. She previously worked at the International Republican Institute on the Countering Foreign Authoritarian Influence program.More by Richard Fontaine
In the battle to shape the global order, the BRICS—a ten-country group, which is named for its first five members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)—has become increasingly important. The bloc represents roughly a third of global GDP and nearly half the world’s population. It exists to give countries that belong to the so-called global South more sway on the world stage.
That might make the BRICS seem like an inherently anti-Western group. It was, after all, founded in part by Beijing and Moscow. But for most of its 16-year history, the BRICS has not positioned
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