Chapter 1: The Sustainability of Expanding BRICS: Global Peace, Security and Sustainable Development.- Part I: EXPANDED BRICS OVERVIEW.- Chapter 2: The Dynamics of Polarised Pluralism: On the Benefits, Challenges, and Threats of a Constantly Changing Fragmented World Order.- Chapter 3: BRICS Expansion: Geopolitical, Geostrategic and Geoeconomic Implications.- Chapter 4: BRICS: Minus x Minus = Plus?.- Part II: PEACE AND SECURITY.- Chapter 5: China and contemporary UN peace operations: development by what means?.- Chapter 6: Integrated BRICS Maritime Security.
- Chapter 7: Divergent BRICS Positions on Reform of the United Nations Security Council and African Security.- Chapter 8: The Importance of Achieving Technological Sovereignty as a Key Component of National Security in the Conditions for the Creation of a Multipolar World.- Chapter 9: ICTs in the Context of International Security: A South-South Cooperation Approach.- Chapter 10: Migrant ''Burden'' and its Implications for Peace and Security in South Africa: A Cosmopolitan and Communitarian Debate. Chapter 11: Effects of Soft Power Diplomacy on Peace and Security in BRICS+ Nations: The Case of South Africa.- Chapter 12: A Critical Evaluation of the ''Thucydides Trap'' as Underpinning BRICS'' Multilateralism as an Alternative to Global Peace and security.- Part III: BRICS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 13: BRICS Challenging the EU in the Balkans: The Case of Serbia.
- Chapter 14: The US- China Trade Wars amid the Covid-19 Era and the Futuristic of the Phase One Deal.- Chapter 15: Ethiopia''s Entry to BRICS and Its Implications for Regional Security in the Horn of Africa.- Chapter 16: Peace and Security in SADC: Understanding the Circumstances Surrounding South Africa''s Participation in SAMIM.- Part IV: Peace and Security in SADC: Understanding the Circumstances Surrounding South Africa''s Participation in SAMIM.- Chapter 17: BRICS'' Contribution to Addressing Youth Unemployment in South Africa.- Chapter 18: Should Turkey Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? Political Economy Dynamics, Handicaps and a Synthesis.- Chapter 19: Does BRICS'' New Enlargement Policy Foster a Developmental Peace in the Middle East?.- Chapter 20: BRICS Expansion: Economic and Financial Cooperation- Chapter 21: BRICS Economic Powerhouse Driving Global Sustainability.
- Chapter 22: Bridging the Policy Divide: Addressing Climate Policy Disparities among the Expanded BRICS in Achieving the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development.