International trends / Op-Ed/Article
Brazil, India and South Africa, powers for a new order?
23/01/2008 By Sarah-Lea John de Sousa
¿Is a new international scenario emerging? After the end of the cold war a unipolar system with the United States as the only global superpower was predicted.
Nearly to decades later several powers with diferent impact and influence in the international relations are coexisting while the United States has to deal with a crisis of its power and legitimacy.
China, which has displaced Japan as an Asian global power, is making an important effort in its defence and developing a world strategy. Moscow reemerges with an important role and power capacities as a rival for Washington.
In this context a series of emerging powers, like India, Brazil and South Africa, are ocuppying positions with an important regional weight and they might provoque changes which were unpredictable a few years ago.
Published in Política Exterior, # 121, January/February 2008, pages 165 to 178.
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IBSA: India, Brazil, South AfricaKeywords
Asia Brazil Globalization India Latin America & Caribbean Multipolarity Regional powers South Africa Southern AfricaRelated publications
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Bio author: Sarah-Lea John de Sousa
MA in Regional Sciences of Latin America (RWL) from the University of Cologne and currently studying her PhD in International Relations at the University Complutense of Madrid. Sarah-Lea John de Sousa has been development project manager at the agency Chuconsultig Germany.
