- Title
- The reform of world order?: BRICS in an Interpolar world
- Creator
- Phyllis, Yvonne
- ThesisAdvisor
- Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193520
- Identifier
- vital:45339
- Description
- International relations has recently seen new developments which are unpredictable and in their infant stage. The causes of these developments are plentiful, the consequences stemming from waning unipolarity to the emergence of new fora creating their own spaces. Whatever the case, international relations is not as it was in the period just after the Cold War. As a result, the terms of global governance established after 1990 have come under serious scrutiny. This transition has the makings of a new world order, an interpolar world order. This study asserts that we no longer live in a unipolar world, nor do we live in a world which can only be described as multipolar. It makes the argument that although multipolarity is a crucial element of the world, it only offers a partial description of today’s order. The study asserts that it is interpolarity which is closest in accounting for today’s world. Not only does it describe the world as multipolar, it also describes it as interdependent. To this end, the study provides a detailed account of what is meant by an interpolar world order and how differently it explains international events. It also provides an account of factors which can develop in an interpolar world. One of these includes allowing room for emerging powers to create their own spaces in efforts of avoiding co-option while continuing to realise the importance of operating within a context of continuity. This means that emerging countries create their own spaces but they also realise the importance of working with already established regimes such as the G20. BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is used as a case study to indicate one of the new developments afforded by an interpolar order-the emergence of new fora. The study asserts that although BRICS is rife with internal dissimilarities, it has indicated some degree of political will in one aspect; that is; advocating for the reform of the terms of global governance, advocating for more representative forms of global governance. The study thus explores factors of a world whose contours are gradually changing but which are unpredictable and in flux.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Political and International Studies, 2015
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (80 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Political and International Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Phyllis, Yvonne
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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