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The BRICS Mirage Attracts New Devotees

But it still looks like a mirage

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Philip Bowring
Aug 17, 2023
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It’s out there somewhere

Like a revived fashion trend, its time has seemingly come again. That 1970s confection “The Global South” is back on a daily basis, in news stories as well as commentaries. The phrase was a partial replacement for the Third World, neither US nor Soviet, and encompassed the so-called “Developing World.”

Now the Global South seems t…

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