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Book Review: Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries
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The book examines the rising influence of emerging powers in global politics, with a special focus on the BRIC countries. The book aims provide a detailed analysis of political, economic, security, and foreign policy trends in the BRIC countries to address such questions as to whether they will seek to revise the international order or work within it, and how they will deal with transnational global problems. Reviewed by Carlos Carrasco Farré. Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: T he Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries. Vidya Nadkarni and Norma C. Noonan. Bloomsbury. February 2013. Find this book: T he contrast during the Cold War between a coercive Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and a cooperative American hegemony in Western Europe started a new line of research in international politics. T he end of this conf lict, and the main core of this research topic, seems to come f rom what Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci noted: “a hegemonic social order that rests on a f oundation of moral and intellectual authority and voluntary acceptance is more enduring because it is seen as legitimate”. In just two decades the international order has moved f rom a bipolar to a unipolar and lately to a multipolar structure. Edited by Vidya Nadkarni (Prof essor of Political Science at the University of San Diego) and Norma C. Noonan (Prof essor of Political Science at Augsburg College), this book tries to def ine what “global leadership” is and what it means to be a global leader in this interstate and multipolar system. T he book is