Heine Quoted in NPR’s All Things Considered
On August 21, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in NPR’s All Things Considered podcast on the coalition of expanding economies known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
During the recent BRICS summit, the bloc moved to invite other Global South nations into the coalition, including Iran, Argentina, Egypt, and others. Some Global North countries were surprised by the new members’ eagerness to join the bloc, especially given member state Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which prompted a host of sanctions and a new wave of isolation.
However, Heine explained why the Global South has shunned Russia despite the invasion of Ukraine and urging from the Global North:
For many countries in the Global South, to make this war into a global war, into a unique war, is quite inappropriate. And they strongly disagree with it.
Listen to the full podcast here.
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007), and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School faculty profile.