“…7 He had in mind of course not only 'BRICS' -anomalous in that they include two permanent members of the Security Council, one a former superpower and the other the world's second largest economy -but also a host of other abbreviations: BRIICS (BRICS plus Indonesia); BASIC (the BRICS minus Russia); IBSA (BRICS minus Russia and China); BRICSAM (BRICS plus Mexico); and MIST (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey). And we should not forget the G20 (South Africa, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the European Union), 8 or the 3G Coalition that exists as part of an informal variable geometry to get the G20 to be more inclusive of non-member views. 9 These structures lend new weight to long-standing critiques of Western dominance over the global governance of economic and financial affairs, including development, and perhaps provide a way to bridge the North-South chasm or the West-versus-the-Rest divide.…”