On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., former vice-president of the New Development Bank and former executive director for Brazil at the International Monetary Fund, as leaders gather in New Delhi for the BRICS+ Summit. He discusses why BRICS has become a hot ticket with Russia, Iran and China at loggerheads with the West, why India is moving closer to China after Donald Trump’s tariffs, how BRICS plans to link its payment systems as an alternative to the Western-controlled SWIFT, why the New Development Bank still lags far behind the IMF, how the IMF and World Bank act as political instruments of the US and Europe, what Venezuela’s fate means for Cuba and the rest of Latin America, why the freezing of Russia’s reserves sped up de-dollarization, what is at stake for BRICS in Brazil’s upcoming election, and much more.

New Order with Afshin Rattansi will trace how India and its allies sit at the center of a transformation in world history. Power is moving, alliances are shifting, and the rules of trade, technology, and security are being rewritten. New Order is about diplomatic architecture: The networks of power, the flow of money, and the levers of influence that determine who gains and who loses in a world of tectonic transition.