It goes without saying, that there are several prerequisites for national currencies usage: reliable economic and financial developments, economic demand of the currency, ability of the national currency to perform as the money abroad (payments, savings, exchange base, etc.), low level of transaction costs (favorable conditions for relations), legislation, that ...
Read More »Politico-Administrative Regime and Development Institutes in South Africa, by Liudmila Vedmetskaya
As an important player on the African continent and its representative in the BRICS South Africa plays a significant role on the international arena. From another side, colonial and apartheid past created a huge number of obstacles on the way of modernization of politico-administrative regime and creation of national competitive ...
Read More »Rising Powers and International Security: the BRICS and the Syrian Conflict, by Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Some rising powers, including the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China,and South Africa), have openly contested certain international security norms, for instance challenging the tendency to invoke humanitarian protection to carry out military intervention. However, the relevance of rising powers, and especially coalitions of such states, to specific conflicts remains ...
Read More »The BRICS: Aren’t breaking any time soon, by Maiara Folly
By Maiara Folly, member of our Euro-BRICS Young Leaders project for the Diplomatist. In 2009, when Yekaterinburg hosted the inaugural Head of State Summit of the BRIC coalition, the world was facing its most critical financial crisis since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Despite the turbulent international context, the ...
Read More »Syria – only one possible goal: to prepare the peace in the country
During the past weeks, we have seen an increase in tensions between Russia and the West. On the western side there have been some accusation attempts on Russia claiming that they have committed crimes against humanity; and on the Russian side some accusations have been made against the western alliance ...
Read More »EuroBRICS Youth Platform and LEAP in Shangai for the Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance 2016
Marie-Hélène Caillol, President of LEAP and some members of our Euro-BRICS Youth Platform are in Shangai for the Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG) in Shangai! It is hosted by the University of Fudan. Our President has been invited as member of the jury! YICGG2016 aims at gathering information about outstanding youths from all ...
Read More »Euro-BRICS / LEAP president invited to head the jury of a pre-Y20 event in Shanghai (July 2016)
In the framework of LEAP’s Euro-BRICS project, its partner, the BRICS Center of Fudan University has invited Marie-Hélène Caillol as well as a dozen Euro-BRICS Youth Platform members to their 2016 edition of the “Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance” (Shanghai, 25-29 July 2016). This event accounts among the preparatory events of Y20 (Youth ...
Read More »Understanding the BRICS evolving influence and role in Global Governance and Development
We strongly encourage you to read this IDS Policy Briefing written by Richard Carey and Xiaoyun Li. Richard Carey is former Director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC-DCD) and chair of the International Advisory Committee of the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). We were ...
Read More »Video// Euro-BRICS Conference by LEAP… in 8 minutes!
In the framework of the launching of India’s BRICS presidency and on the occasion of the Euro-BRICS Week in Paris… The Embassy of India in Paris, LEAP and the Euro-BRICS Youth Platform organised a public conference last April 30, topic: Instrumentality of the Euro-BRICS bridging in addressing the challenges of ...
Read More »VIDEO// Public conference: Instrumentality of the Euro-BRICS bridging in addressing the challenges of the multipolar world
In the framework of the launching of India’s BRICS presidency and on the occasion of the Euro-BRICS Week in Paris… The Embassy of India in Paris, LEAP and the Euro-BRICS Youth Platform organised a public conference last April 30, topic: Instrumentality of the Euro-BRICS bridging in addressing the challenges of the multipolar world If you were not able to ...
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