ABSTRACT
The longue durée interaction across the oceans have impacted the world system of commerce, enterprise, diaspora and culture. The effects were long drawn and so the impact was sustaining and conspicuous. The BRICS nations have the maritime connect that could not be matched by many nation associations and yet the maritime potentialities of the trans-oceanic zone that begins at the cold ports of Russia to the warm shores of South America with Indian Ocean littoral in between has not reached its maxima. This chapter highlights three facets that help to scrutinize the contemporary Blue Water Policy of BRICS. Firstly, the complexity of methodology where it requires a triple analytical foundation of historical logic – time, space and structure – to underline the political economy and maritime potential of BRICS and the problems associated with it. Second, the quantitative historicity of mercantilism and bullion flow that opened the Indian oceanic littoral for Europe. Third, how the practical formulation from the realisation of the potentiality of the maritime connect would gradually shift South Asian nations from the penumbra of Euro-centricism to becoming the centre of new global realities with a sense of shared historic, cultural and geographic oneness - completing the transition from being mere shareholders to stakeholders.
