title: BRICS Security Agenda and Prospects for the BRICS Ufa Summit
abstract: As a recent phenomenon, the BRICS continues to provoke heated discussions about its prospects and its sustainability asa community of like-minded actors. While observers can recognize common goals regarding international financial andeconomic architecture reform, the BRICS security agenda occupies a grey area of uncertainty. Meanwhile, as host of theBRICS in 2015-16, Russia sees as its main priority the transformation of the group from a loose forum into a full-fledgedmechanism for economic and 
journal: International Organisations Research Journal