ABSTRACT
There are seemingly exponential changes in China and the BRICS which challenge both diplomacy and theory around the emerging, transnational etc. The post-war bipolar international “order” was transformed by the end of the Cold War; after global financial crises it is in further transitions. The global South is no longer marginal or peripheral but essential to the world economy: the post-2015 development agenda is increasingly defined by “new” donors, both inter- and non-state.
