The question of what truly unites all BRICS economies has been an ongoing topic in the ideation of the bloc’s global mission for decades.
But while there may be a host of factors at work to bring these emerging markets closer together (perhaps most notably the search for alternatives to the existing global governance framework), there is also a sense that the single most important challenge faced by BRICS members in boosting mutual economic cooperation is the tremendous distance that separates these economies.
In fact, there are several dimensions to the BRICS distance challenge that have been explored by BRICS+ Analytics authors in the past, including the distances between BRICS core members as well as the great continental expanses in the broader regions of the Global South.
In what follows we explore the three dimensions of distance with respect to BRICS-5, namely the geographical distances between BRICS members, the scale of the continental remoteness of inland regions in these economies and the cultural diversity/distance across the BRICS-5 economies.
> https://brics-plus-analytics.org/brics-in-three-dimensional-space/