Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The expansion of the BRICS group

Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 8 a.m.

This week on Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball, Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, focuses on the outcomes of the 15th Annual Summit of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, China, India, China and South Africa) which happened this week. Those 5 countries have announced the admission of 6 more countries to the group: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and United Arab Emirates. Jamie details in this podcast the stakes of BRICS\u2019 expansion and what would be the consequences of this expansion for the BRICS, the West and the Global South.