The BRICS has rapidly expanded over the past two years. Judging from this year's summit, the increased membership appears to have hurt its mission. The post The BRICS Boom Could End Up Being a Bust ...

The recent BRICS summit in Brazil revealed a loose alliance of emerging powers becoming more complex — and perhaps more ...

The alliance that initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa when it was founded in 2009 has expanded to embrace Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

BRICS is an acronym that represents an alliance of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Jim O’Neill, an economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the phrase in ...

BRICS’ New Map Is Taking Shape Mihaela Papa, Walter Streeter Jun 25, 2025 Leaders attend a BRICS Plus session at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, Oct. 24, 2024 (pool photo by Maxim Shemetov ...

South Africa assumes the helm of the BRICS alliance, propelling an epoch-defining summit next week in Johannesburg. Amidst the post-pandemic landscape, ...

More Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Four more countries— Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the U.A.E. —joined the BRICS alliance in January 2024.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's absence from the BRICS Summit in Brazil raises questions about China's internal politics and tensions within the alliance of emerging economies.