The BRICS Era

This paper will look at the changing association between China, Africa, and BRICS in the process of building a multipolar world order using a constructivist approach. Beyond materialist views, the paper lays stress on the importance of sharing ideas, norms, and identities in the context of international collaboration. The relations that China practices with the African states are not purely economically motivated, but a discourse of South-South solidarity, development cooperation, and anti-Western domination is created between the two countries. In the BRICS context, such contacts are additionally institutionalized, which is a common desire to change the international frameworks of governance and move towards an inclusive international system. The qualitative research methodology implies that the research will be based on a selection of documents, including official statements, policy papers, BRICS summits declarations, and forums of cooperation between China and Africa. It also uses secondary sources like scholarly sources and master analysis to explain the meanings and interpretations that are given to these relationships. In this way the paper examines that the norms of sovereignty, non-interference, and development cooperation are discussed as socially constructed and reproduced in China-Africa activities and BRICS engagements. The results indicate that China-Africa-BRICS nexus helps redefine global power gradually as it advances new standards and institutional activities. These actors do not challenge the status quo of hegemony directly, but instead, they all redefine international expectations and legitimacy. The analysis comes up with the findings that constructivist perception sheds more light on the role of ideational factors alongside material capabilities in the promotion of a multipolar world order.
Keywords; China-Africa Relations, BRICS, Multipolar World Order, Constructivism