The position of BRICS towards the Syrian crisis

Abstract

By the beginning of this century, an international economic grouping called BRICS has emerged, consisting of five countries from the rising powers: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. There are some attempts and developments within the BRICS grouping aiming to increase the coordination of their stances and foreign policies towards some crises in various regions, especially the crises in the Middle East. Accordingly, this article aims to identify the roles of BRICS as a whole towards the Syrian crisis as one of the most prominent regional crises, and to review and investigate the constants of the positions of BRICS, and to monitor the behaviour and approach of BRICS towards this crisis that represents one of the existing challenges, and to assess the effectiveness of BRICS as some claim that the features of the BRICS grouping as a whole have begun to become clear politically toward the Syrian crisis in particular.

Author Biography

Eslam Ibrahim Hussein, Alexandria University, 22 El-Gaish Road, Alexandria 21526, Egypt

postgraduate student at the political science department, faculty of economic studies and political science. Scientific supervisor – Safaa Saber Khalifa, PhD (political science)

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Published
2021-12-08
Keywords: Middle East, MENA, Arab spring revolutions, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, international security, regional crises, United Nations, Security Council, UNSC Resolution 2254
How to Cite
Hussein, E. I. (2021). The position of BRICS towards the Syrian crisis. Journal of the Belarusian State University. International Relations, 2, 9-16. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/internationalRelations/article/view/4262
Issue
No 2 (2021): Journal of the Belarusian State University. International Relations
Section
International relations

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