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A major conference examining how the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as leading world powers should be accommodated by the international community will take place at Cambridge University later this month. We will have a chance to find out what their different visions for the world's future are." - —Amrita Narlikar The two-day event, "Rising Powers in the International System: Harnessing Opportunities, Managing Challenges", is co-organized by the Centre for Rising Powers (CRP) and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). The event is also co-sponsored by Cambridge University Press. It begins on 24 February and will bring together figures from the worlds of public policy, economics and academia. The speakers will include Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6 and Master of Pembroke College; Jim O'Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the economist whose ground-breaking research underpins much current thinking about the four emerging "BRICs" - an acronym he also coined; Stephen King, Chief Economist at HSBC; HE Roberto Jaguaribe, the Brazilian Ambassador to the UK; Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development; and also leading historians, political scientists and economists working in the area of rising powers. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, international politics have effectively been led by liberal, western democracies.
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