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How the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relates to BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is, in the light of the growing strength and importance of this organisation and the countries which comprise it, of critical importance. The GCC countries have fast-growing economies, and they share some of the attributes and concerns of BRICS countries.
The issue is not simply how the GCC countries handle their relations with the individual BRICS countries, but more importantly how they relate to an alternative structure of coordination and perhaps power in the global order. Their established links and alliances may no longer be enough to satisfy either their economic needs or their security concerns.
The objective of this book is to examine the commonalities and the differences in economic and political interest between the BRICS countries and the GCC countries, so as to assess the potential for cooperation and collective action. Whether the GCC could itself become a part of BRICS is also worth consideration. While the focus is on the GCC, the GCC's relations with BRICS countries have been, and will continue to be, closely affected by the wider Gulf dimension--the state of their relations with Iran and Iraq, and the manner in which BRICS countries relate to those two countries.
The issue is not simply how the GCC countries handle their relations with the individual BRICS countries, but more importantly how they relate to an alternative structure of coordination and perhaps power in the global order. Their established links and alliances may no longer be enough to satisfy either their economic needs or their security concerns.
The objective of this book is to examine the commonalities and the differences in economic and political interest between the BRICS countries and the GCC countries, so as to assess the potential for cooperation and collective action. Whether the GCC could itself become a part of BRICS is also worth consideration. While the focus is on the GCC, the GCC's relations with BRICS countries have been, and will continue to be, closely affected by the wider Gulf dimension--the state of their relations with Iran and Iraq, and the manner in which BRICS countries relate to those two countries.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
30 July 2016
ISBN: 9783959940085
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Introduction
Tim Niblock
1 The Dynamics of the BRICS Grouping: Convergences and Disparities with the GCC’s Global Posture and Stances
Tim Niblock
2 GCC-BRICS Strategic Cooperation in the New Era: The Dual Implications of Geoeconomics and Geopolitics
Degang Sun
3 Taking BRICS to the GCC: Shaping an Indian Initiative to Promote a BRICS Role in the Gulf Security Scenario
Talmiz Ahmad
4 GCC and BRICS: Exploring the Nuclear Energy Cooperation Route
Stuti Banerjee
5 United Arab Emirates and Brazil: Ideas, Perceptions and Perspectives of Unlikely Allies
Vânia Carvalho Pinto and Danielly Silva Ramos Becard
6 Russia and the GCC Countries: Hard to be Friends but Impossible to Remain Foes
Nikolay Kozhanov
7 India in BRICS and Indo-GCC Relations: Assessing Conflicts and Complementarities
Shanthie Mariet DSouza and Bibhu Prasad Routray
8 China’s One Belt One Road Initiative and its Strategic Connections with Arab Countries in the Gulf
Tingyi Wang
9 In Search of a Strategic Partnership: China-Qatar Energy Cooperation, from 1988 to 2015
Gafar K. Ahmed
10 A GCC-China Security “Strategic Partnership”: Its Potential and Contours
Imad Mansour
11 The GCC and the BRICS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is China the Main Driver?
Gladys Lechini and Maria Noel Dussort
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