The multilateral grouping known as BRICS or BRICS+—whose first five members were Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—is often portrayed as a unified political, economic, and security counterweight to advanced industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia. The essays in this fascinating volume challenge that simplistic assessment by exploring the bloc’s internal dynamics. Member countries use the BRICS platform to advance their own myriad interests. Russia and China, for