„BRICS” jako kreator bezpieczeństwa w środowisku międzynarodowym : rola Federacji Rosyjskiej w świetle kryzysu krymskiego

In November 2001, an analyst at Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill for group of the four largest emerging markets with high economic potential has created the acronym “BRIC”. These markets belong to the Federative Republic of Brazil , the Russian Federation, the Republic of India and the People's Republic of China. In February 2011, the group was expanded to include South Africa, causing a change in the name of the group to „BRICS”. According to Goldman Sachs' forecasts, in the near future the world's economies, in particular, equity markets will depend on the economic development of this group of countries. In addition , in 2050 the total value of the BRICS economies will exceed the value of the G-7 economies . Such predictions seem quite reasonable, taking into account the fact that the BRICS countries have a significant amount of resources. For example, China is a source of cheap labor , both Russia and South Africa have large stocks of natural resources , agro-industry in Brazil is very highly developed , while India has cheap intellectual resources. So today is not only the BRICS group of countries with considerable economic potential , but also has a number of general political interest , which allow members of the BRICS to conduct a coordinated policy and acting as a strong player in the international arena. A total of BRICS occupy 26 % of the territory of the world, nearly 2.83 billion population represents almost half of the total population entourage (42% ), while the combined nominal GDP ( 15,434 trillion ) is 14.6 % of global GDP ratio. This study refers to the facts and development forecasts for this group of countries. In this paper the author tries to define the directions of economic development of the „rising giants”, their investment position in the world , the power supply of the „engine of the global economy”, their political views , but also the most important views on strengthening economic and military new alliances. Due to the ensuing new military- political situation in the region of Eastern Europe (Crimea) and sustained in the course of writing the author tries to develop in a very marginal way to show how these events will affect the configuration of the world economy, and influence on the military- economic situation of the globe.