SCO-BRICS: A Big Summit in Ufa The summit next month will reveal much about the future of Russia’s Eurasian dream.

PhD Candidate Greg Shtraks of the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington recently published his article SCO-BRICS: A Big Summit in Ufa: The summit next month will reveal much about the future of Russia’s Eurasian dream in the Diplomat. Congratulations Greg!

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Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis there has been a clear shift in the tectonic plates of global geopolitics. An increasingly assertive Russia and China are challenging the U.S.-dominated order in a myriad of ways, but the actual contours of the emerging multipolar world are still hazy. On the one hand, as Huiyun Feng describes in her recent article for The Diplomat, the two opposing sides seem to be set. The Russia-China Entente and its coterie of Eurasian autocracies seems to be a genuine, lasting phenomenon. Meanwhile, the G-7 is unified in its opposition to Moscow, while the United States has reinforced its Pacific alliances with Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Australia. On the other hand, the path of middle powers such as India, Iran, Brazil, Turkey, and Indonesia remains uncertain. Despite prodding from the United States none of these countries joined Washington in imposing sanctions against Russia and all are interested in profiting from China’s evolving “One Belt, One Road” initiative.