The changing world order is characterised by a sharp rise in global instability, in which international cooperation cannot depend solely on economic benefits, financial institutions, diplomacy, or negotiation. Global cooperation requires relationships among people, especially among BRICS, whose expansion has enhanced its pluralistic character. BRICS formally rests on three pillars: political and security cooperation, economic …
The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI) posits both an opportunity and a challenge for entire humanity. The word ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was first coined by computer scientist John McCarthy in the year 1956 during the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. But prior to this workshop in 1950, the British Mathematician Alan Turing published his …
BRICS discourse on People-to-People Connectivity has settled into a familiar register: trade fairs, university partnerships, tourism corridors and curated cultural festivals. These are valuable, but they share a common limitation — they are archival. They produce documents, MOUs, delegations, and photo-ops that can be filed, cited, and reported upward into governance summaries. What they rarely …
The 18th BRICS summit has concluded on 12 and 13 September 2026 in New Delhi, under India's chairmanship and the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”. What distinguishes this chairmanship from its predecessors is the place given to information technology. Artificial intelligence governance has been placed at the centre of the 2026 agenda. …
BRICS, which came together twenty years ago with the aim of serving as the collective voice of rising powers in the global economy, has today emerged not only as an economic cooperation platform but also as an influential geopolitical actor in the reshaping of the international system. The summit to be hosted by India in …
In September 2026, the BRICS leaders will convene in New Delhi for the BRICS annual summit. The bloc is on the brink of a development that will have far-reaching repercussions beyond trade and monetary policy. Recent reports suggest that approximately 65 percent of intra-BRICS trade transactions are currently resolved in national currencies, while the proportion denominated …
One of the founding members of BRICS, and having already held its Presidency thrice i.e. 2012, 2016 and 2021, India again assumed its Chair for the fourth time on January 1, 2026. Now India plans to host the 18th BRICS Summit from September 12-13, 2026, wherein the leaders of the BRICS member nations and partner …
As India takes the BRICS chair in 2026, the test before the grouping is no longer whether it joins the global space economy, but whether participation builds capacity or entrenches diplomacy. A governance network, dependency mapping, lunar dialogue, and capacity chains could provide BRICS with the foundations to move from participating in existing rules to …
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