The Director of the BRICS Policy Center (BPC/PUC-Rio), Marta Fernández, and the Deputy Director of BPC/PUC-Rio, Maria Elena Rodríguez, published the article entitled “BRICS and the Global South: Anticipating the Steps of the Global North” on the E-International Relations website.

The Director of the BRICS Policy Center (BPC/PUC-Rio), Marta Fernández, and the Deputy Director of BPC/PUC-Rio, Maria Elena Rodríguez, published the article entitled “BRICS and the Global South: Anticipating the Steps of the Global North” on the E-International Relations website.

In this article, the authors analyze the ongoing transformations in the liberal international order, highlighting the role of BRICS as a space for political articulation and institutional innovation in the Global South in the face of the weakening of US hegemony and the tensions generated by unilateralism during Donald Trump’s second term.

Furthermore, it is emphasized that strategies historically associated with the Global South, such as non-alignment, multi-alignment, and the pursuit of greater autonomy and diversification of partnerships, are being progressively appropriated by countries of the Global North as mechanisms for adapting to a more multipolar and unstable international scenario.

Finally, the authors argue that “The Global South represents the future: a space of innovation where alternatives are daily experimented with, lived, and debated,” countering the view that the Global South is merely a space of backwardness or dysfunction.