The BRICS+ and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

"This book explores the evolving dynamics of BRICS+ and GCC countries, offering a valuable lens on emerging alliances, policy exchange, and the shifting architecture of global governance. A major contribution to understanding public policy, diplomacy and global governance in a rapidly changing world."

Jing Gu, Director of the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development, Institute of Development Studies, UK. 

"This book offers an original perspective on the BRICS that merits broad attention. It relocates the strategies of BRICS core members in terms of BRICS+ and the Arab Gulf. Conceptually, it innovatively situates BRICS+ within evolving interregionalism and the GCC. Empirically the volume provides rich details about the motivations and operational repertoire of those pivotal countries necessary for understanding the dynamics around multipolarity in the context of geo-political challenges and adjustments in and beyond the Global South."

Andrew Cooper, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada. 

This book examines the multifaceted dimensions of the BRICS+ and Gulf Cooperation Council countries, focusing especially on public policy exchanges, economic partnerships, and diplomacy. It charts the evolution of the BRICS from a loose coalition of emerging powers to an institutionalized entity, with its own thinktank network dedicated to policy research and coordination. It also considers the relationships between these countries, especially against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, as well as similarities and differences in their domestic and foreign public policies. The book will appeal to all those interested in public policy, governance and international relations.   

Osmany Porto de Oliveira is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Esmat Zaidan is Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar.