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BRICS – De-dollarization Summit

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  F rom 22 August to 24 August 2023 South Africa hosted the 15th BRICS summit in an attempt to define the BRICS’s role in the global economic system. Namely, at the summit numerous documents were discussed in the presence of more than 40 heads of states and governments, in addition to the leaders of the BRICS countries, which include Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the minister of foreign affairs of Russia. As usual, this 15th summit in the history of the group also addressed the global management system and the necessity to reform the current (in the words of the participants) unjust and unequal system with a special emphasis on the need for major structural reforms of the global financial system, which has been dominated by the United State s since the  Bretton Woods Agreement [ 2 ] of July 1944 and the  Nixon shock [ 3 ], which has been present to date. The Johannesburg Summit was not ordinary by any means, as its agenda included many major issues in the lig...

2023 Ukraine Crisis: Has the “Great Game” between the West and China already begun?

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  H istorians and geopolitical experts usually seek major shifts to understand and explain the developments in the world, believing they will find answers in any major military-political development. The shifts in the last century included a number of major events, each of which was considered a “ milestone ” towards a new phase in international relations.  Maybe the most prominent of all the events were the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the United States of America , which constituted the first foreign attack on US soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (US port on Hawaii’s island of Oahu). The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with major human losses, followed. However, they did not inform the geopolitical situation in the world in the 21st century, which remained the same as we knew it since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early nineties of the 20th century- dominance of the West in the decision making processes at the global level, despite the ...