IBSA and the Politics of the World Order - Foundation Office Brazil
Event Reports
KAS Brazil and the BRICS Policy Centre invited to the Seminar "IBSA and the Politics of the World Order" to take place in Rio de Janeiro.
Christian Matthäus (KAS Brazil-above left) bid welcome to the audience together with Paulo Esteves (BRICS Policy Centre –above right) and, on occasion, addressed the history that gave rise to the allegiance between India, Brazil and South Africa and brought up the issue of the Allegiance’s future prospects, its value-principles, as well as, their purpose. Esteves highlighted the importance of congruent interests, particularly in the sphere of human rights, which democracies deem universal.
Ambassador Flávio Soares Damico (above centre) is responsible, within the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (also known as “Itamaraty”), for Brazil’s memberships in multi-state allegiances and has, in this manner, represented South-America’s largest nation on occasion of numerous meetings IBSA- und BRICS-Groups. His comments regarding the future of such a grouping of emerging democracies within their respective global regions gave cause to lively debate regarding leadership power in view of a rapidly increasing multi-polarization of the world-order.
The discussion round moderated by Monica Herz (BRICS Policy Centre) under the title “The IBSA-Alliance within the Global Security Order” was attended by Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte of Germany’s Leibniz-Institute for Global and Regional Studies (GIGA), by Mr. Aditi Lalbahadur of the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA), as well as, by Mr. Eugénio Diniz of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). The effectiveness of joint naval manoeuvres within the framework of BSAMAR-Cooperation, as well as, agreed-on thematic positions of the IBSA-Nations within the BRICS-Group were the focus-points of the seminar’s second part.
The seminar “IBSA and the Politics of the World Order” took place pursuant to Rules of the Chatham House , in this manner, making possible frank and open-to-criticism debates regarding the global relevance of democracy-oriented emerging countries within the international economic and trade system, but most particularly, regarding their expected role within a global multi-polarized security order.
