Brics: Dialectics of Unity and Diversity as a key to Successful Global Cooperation

• Author: Maria Novoselova
• Position: Tyumen State University (Tyumen, Russia)
• Pages: 145-151

BRICS LAW JOURNAL Volume IV (2017) Issue 4

BOOK REVIEW NOTES

BRICS: DIaLECTICS oF unITY anD DIVERSITY

aS a KEY To SuCCESSFuL GLoBaL CooPERaTIon*

MARIA NOVOSELOVA,

Tyumen State University (Tyumen, Russia)

DOI: 10.21684/2412-2343-2017-4-4-145-151

Recommended citation: Maria Novoselova, BRICS: Dialectics of Unity and Diversity

as a Key to Successful Global Cooperation, 4(4) BRICS Law Journal 145–151 (2017).

BRICS is a marvelous phenomenon that manifests itself through the dialectics of

unity and diversity. BRICS encompasses the cultural, economic, social, political, and

legal diversity of the cooperating actors. It is noteworthy that the diversity is not

a barrier to the collaboration and international trade, but a fertile breeding ground

for constantly adjusted cooperation. To deal with the big dierences between the

BRICS countries, it is necessary to use the advantages of a dynamic and concentric

structure of cooperation. The sense of the mentioned phenomenon is, in particular,

the fact that BRICS cooperation is built not on general harmonization, but on the

search for the core areas of collaboration. And that is what allows us to understand

the latent potential of the diversity of the cooperating actors.

In “The BRICS-Lawyers’ Guide to Global Cooperation,” edited by Rostam J. Neuwirth,

Professor of Law and Programme Coordinator of Master of International Business Law

(IBL) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau (China), Alexandr Svetlicinii,

Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Macau, and Denis De Castro Halis,

Brazilian scholar, the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, provide both the

lawyer and the researcher with an understanding of law’s contribution to BRICS

cooperation. The book focuses on, but is not limited to, trade governance facilities

* Reviewed book: Rostam J. Neuwirth et al., The BRICS-Lawyers’ Guide to Global Cooperation (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2017).