Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?

How should social movements respond in a way that embraces needed changes to the post-colonial status quo yet supports communities struggles against the impacts of land grabbing, environmental destruction and rising inequality, this time perpetuated by emerging economy governments?

This reader contains a set of the TNI Shifting Power Working Paper Series:

Emerging powers: Rise of the South or a reconfiguration of elites?
Brazil: From cursed legacy to compromised hope?
China Rising: A new world order or an old order renewed?
India in the Emerging World Order: A status quo power or a revisionist force?
The BRICS Alliance: Challenges and Opportunities for South Africa and Africa
BRICS: A global trade power in a multi-polar world
The Emerging Economies and Climate Change: A case study of the BASIC grouping
Land grabbing under the cover of law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?
The BRICS and Global Capitalism