The Role of the BRICS in the Global Hegemon

"There's nothing progressive about Russia. It's oligarchy and state institutions are every bit as aggressive and bankrupt of more any legitimacy, moral legitimacy," he says. "If Canada could be the global hegemon, they would jump at it." But when you're a Canada, you can only play a junior partner,. So that's what the role they play. And the brick countries, most of them have been junior partners and may well do again.