ABSTRACT
The broad agenda of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) highlighted the questions of whether and why the group would provide better global governance than the G8 and G20. BRICS summit performance generally rose slowly and steadily over its first seven summits to reach a solid level. As the BRICS grew institutionally, its summit performance rose to a substantial level, across all six dimensions of performance and across a broadening agenda extending into the political-security sphere. The dimensions include Domestic political management, Deliberation, Direction setting, Decision making, Delivery, and Development of global governance. This chapter explains some Causes of BRICS performance, including shock-activated vulnerability, multilateral organizational failure, predominant, equalizing capabilities, common characteristics and principles, domestic political cohesion, and constricted participation in the club. It presents a specific issue showing the advance of the BRICS as an equalizing club was the reform of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
