title: Explaining the BRICS Summit Solid, Strengthening Success
abstract: An analysis of BRICS summit performance since its start on the margins of the G8’s Hokkaido Summit in 2008 through to its gathering at the G20’s Brisbane Summit in November 2014, shows it emerging as a solid, increasingly comprehensive, co-operative success,both alone andwithin the G20, on behalf of all emerging countries. This is due primarily to the failure of the other international institutions from the 1944-45 and 1975 generations to give the leading emerging powers an equal, effective plac
journal: International Organisations Research Journal