Paulo Duarte and Paulo Vicente, researchers at CEAD Francisco Suárez, published their contributions in the most recent IDN Brief on the BRICS theme. Coinciding with the XVI BRICS Summit, held under the theme “Strengthening multilateralism for fair global development and security”, the National Defense Institute (IDN) publishes an IDN Brief dedicated to that multilateral organization. The BRICS group, founded informally in 2006, it held its first summit in 2009 and includes countries that represent around a third of the world economy and more than 40% of the global population and the United Arab Emirates are currently part of the bloc.
In IDN Brief, short opinion articles are published on current security and defense topics, written by different IDN researchers, at the invitation of the Director of IDN or on their own initiative.