Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction - Ana Garcia and Patrick Bond -- Part 1: Sub-imperial, inter-imperial or capitalist-imperial? -- 2. BRICS and the sub-imperial location - Patrick Bond -- 3. Sub-imperialism, the highest stage of dependent capitalism - Mathias Luce -- 4. BRICS, capital-imperialism and new contradictions - Virginia Fontes -- 5. BRICS, the G20 and the American Empire - Leo Panitch -- 6. Capitalist mutations in emerging, intermediate and peripheral neoliberalism - Claudio Katz -- Part 2: BRICS 'develop' Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe -- 7. BRICS corporate snapshots during African extractivisim - Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Richard Kamidza, Farai Maguwu and Bobby Peek -- 8. The story of the hunter or the hunted? Brazil's role in Angola and Mozambique - Ana Garcia and Karina Kato -- 9. China's geopolitical oil strategy in the Andean region - Omar Bonilla Martinez -- 10. The transnationalisation of Brazilian construction companies - Padro Henrique Campos -- 11. Behind the image of South-South solidarity at Brazil's Vale - Judith Marshall -- 12. Rio's ruinous mega-events - Einar Braathen, Gilmar Mascarenhas and Celina Sorboe -- 13. Modern Russia as semi-peripheral, dependent capitalism - Ruslan Dzarasov -- 14. Russia's neoliberal imperialism and the Eurasian challenge - Gonzalo Pozo -- Part 3: BRICS within global capitalism -- 15. BRICS and transnational capitalism - William Robinson -- 16. BRICS at the brink of the fossil bonanza - Elmar Altvater -- 17. Scramble, resistance and a new non-alignment strategy - Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros -- 18. The BRICS' dangerous endorsement of 'financial inclusion' - Susanne Soederberg -- 19. China and the lingering Pax Americana - Ho-Fung Hung -- 20. The future trajectory of BRICS - Achin Vanaik -- 21. Does the South have a possible history? Vijay Prashad.

22. Whose interests are served by the BRICS? - Immanuel Wallerstein -- 23. BRICS after the Durban and Fortaleza summits - Niall Reddy -- 24. Building BRICS from below? - Ana Garcia -- 25. Co-dependent BRICS from above, co-opted BRICS from the middle, and confrontational BRICS from below - Patrick Bond -- Index.