Commentary: An expanded BRICS could reset world politics but picking new members isn’t straightforward

. The five-country bloc is also looking to grow its global partnerships.

Ever since, the grouping has taken on a more pointedly political tone, particularly on the need to reform global institutions, in addition to its original economic raison d’etre.15th summit in JohannesburgWe are political scientists whose research interests include changes to the global order and emerging alternative centres of power. In our view, it won’t be easy to expand the bloc.

Reuters estimates that more than 40 states are aspiring to join BRICS. South African diplomat Anil Sooklal says 13 had formally applied by May. Many, though not all, of the aspiring joiners have this overtly political motivation of countering US hegemony. Given the extent of globalisation, it’s unlikely that there will be attempts to chip away at the West’s access to strategic minerals and trade routes as happened during the Suez Crisis of 1956, at the height of the Cold War.

Although they might be currently experiencing rocky relations with Washington, they have proven to be capable of rapprochement following previous disagreements with the US, with which they seem inextricably intertwined.

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