Brics - by Ana Garcia & Patrick Bond (Paperback)

About the Book

A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Book Synopsis

A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Review Quotes

"This book is a uniquely valuable resource for development scholars, students and activists. It includes outstanding contributions written by a stellar group of authors. They pierce through every aspect of the discourse around the BRICS, showing the reality beneath the politically engineered triumphalism."
-Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

"Should we celebrate the rise of the BRICS as an alternative to western imperialism? Or condemn the involved states for failing to provide an alternative to the unfettered domination of global neoliberalism, but simply modifying its form? This book is the most significant work yet published to examine these issues through a critical lens...BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Alternative is required reading for anyone concerned about what the development of the BRICS means for the global proletariat, and for the structure of the capitalist world order more generally"
-James Parisot, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

About the Author

Ana Garcia teaches international relations at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. She coordinated research on innovation systems at the BRICS Policy Center and is a researcher at the Institute Policy Alternatives for the Southern Cone.

Patrick Bond, based in South Africa since 1990 mainly at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Wits University, recently authored Elite Transition (third edition), South Africa: The Present as History (coauthored with John Saul) and Politics of Climate Justice.