abstract: The work describes the process of formation of the inter-civilizational association BRICS and its transition to a new stage of development in connection with the expansion to BRICS 11 at the 15 th summit in Johannesburg (South Africa, August 2023).The association is expected to expand further by admitting a second wave of states that are waiting for their turn.BRICS+ is now becoming the basis of a new, successfully emerging, equitable multipolar world order, which is becoming a real alternative 
journal: Journal of Globalization Studies