The Brics Superpower Challenge. Foreign and Security Policy Analysis

• Author: M. Riekkinen - G. Chebotarev
• Position: Tyumen State University (Tyumen, Russia)
• Pages: 148-151

BRICS LAW JOURNAL Volume III (2016) Issue 4

BOOK REVIEW NOTES

THE BRICS SuPERPowER CHaLLEnGE.

FoREIGn anD SECuRITY PoLICY anaLYSIS*

MARIYA RIEKKINEN,

Tyumen State University (Tyumen, Russia)

GENNADY CHEBOTAREV,

Tyumen State University (Tyumen, Russia)

DOI: 10.21684/2412-2343-2016-3-4-148-151

Recommended citation: Mariya Riekkinen & Gennady Chebotarev, The BRICS

Superpower Challenge. Foreign and Security Policy Analysis, 3(4) BRICS Law Journal

148–151 (2016).

The authors are reviewing the book by Kwang Ho Chun “The BRICS Superpower

Challenge. Foreign and Security Policy Analysis,” published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

(England, USA). All in-all, this is a welcome contribution, providing a comprehensive

analysis of the potential of separate states of the BRICS to become a “superpower” in

the sense of disseminating information about this international organization among

legal professionals. Yet this contribution harbors several limitations, such as a de facto

concentration on the foreign policy of Brazil, Russia, India and China and a reliance

on the criterion of soft power when approaching the potential of the BRICS, both of

which are rather signicant in terms of the success of the book with respect to the

foreign and security policy of a regional organization. The concluding chapter also

concentrates on summarizing the potential of separate BRICS states to develop into

“superpowers.” The authors of this review assert that due to the said methodological

* Reviewed book: Kwang Ho Chun, The BRICS Superpower Challenge. Foreign and Security Policy Analysis

(Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013).