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The potential of the BRICS countries is one of the most significant in the world, and they have set important goals for development of their cooperation, one of which is exploration of outer space and the use of space technology. The BRICS countries have great technical and financial capabilities for development of space programs, and they have the necessary infrastructure. In the modern world there are only 3 spacefaring superpowers (Russia, the United States and China), and two of them are in the BRICS. This art...

The article concerns the problem of the gradual change in the balance of power between the West and a group of rapidly developing countries, particularly the BRICS countries. The data from the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Total Economy Database and other open sources have formed the base for research. In recent years, the world economy has demonstrated the accumulation of unresolved imbalances. Evaluation of observed trends in the world economy proves the need to complement the actions of international econo...

New approach to conceptualize social development and to measure its level is proposed for societies facing the paradoxical consequences of globalization. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the ‘world society’ or ‘worldwide sociality’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality. In the post-globalization age, the ‘core’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of globality. T...