Kelman Seminar: BRICS’ Negotiation Campaign for Multipolarity: Strategies and Implications for the United States
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
BRICS’ Negotiation Campaign for Multipolarity:
Strategies and Implications for the United States
A virtual talk with:
Mihaela Papa
Senior Fellow, Rising Power Alliances Project
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Thursday, October 19, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
About the talk:
Is it possible to diversify global leadership and make the international system less US-dominant? The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group has been actively pursuing a wide range of initiatives to achieve multipolarity. The debates surrounding geopolitical realignments and de-dollarization reached their peak in August 2023 when the group decided to expand. This webinar examines BRICS’ mobilization as a negotiation campaign for multipolarity. It argues that the BRICS group offers new insights into conducting high-stakes negotiation campaigns, with important implications for U.S. foreign policymaking.
About the speaker:
Mihaela Papa, Ph.D, is a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she co-founded the Rising Power Alliances project and has taught sustainable development diplomacy. She started her BRICS research as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School. Her recent publications include the development of a BRICS Convergence Index (EJIR, 2023), “Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?” (with Z. Liu, CUP 2022), and analyzing BRICS’ coalitional dynamics in Global Policy, International Affairs, Global Environmental Change, and other journals. Her BRICS-related commentary has been featured on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, AP, News24, and in various other media outlets. As a practitioner, Mihaela has extensive experience developing international collaborations in the government and non-profit sectors.
About the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar Series:
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The seminar considers ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform ethnonational conflicts.
For more information on the Kelman Seminar Series, contact Donna Hicks at dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu.
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