BRICS Plus in the Capitalist World-System The economic alliance seeks a break with Western hegemony, but not with neoliberalism Author: Janine Walter Source: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung A snapshot from the sixteenth BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 22–24 October 2024, Photo: IMAGO / SNA When the annual BRICS Plus summit was held in Kazan, Russia last October, host Vladimir Putin was clearly in a good mood. Indeed, in terms of foreign policy, the Russian president had done quite well for himself: 40 nations were represented, more than half of them by heads of government or of state; UN General Secretary António Guterres also attended. It was only the previous year that the intergovernmental organization known by the acronym BRICS, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, had expanded. Since then, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have become part of the extended BRICS Plus; meanwhile however, Argentina and Saudi Arabia ...