Growing Pains and Absent Leaders Cast Shadow Over Rio Brics Summit
LeadAs Brics convenes in Rio this weekend, cracks appear in the bloc’s unity—rapid expansion, ideological divides, and key leadership absences threaten its cohesion and ambitions. 1. Rapid Expansion, Slow Consensus Brics has ballooned from five founding members to eleven, stretching from Brazil and India to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. But this meteoric growth has…