Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’

Over the past decades, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries have experienced significant economic growth. However, their political voices in global governance not grown on par with surge. The contributions to symposium ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation a Post-Western World’ argue there is quest emerging markets developing play more role governance. There widening gap between actual of system ability participate that system. moment, various domestic international political-economic challenges limit this quest. To understand why case, one should phenomenon broader context power shift towards South.