Strengthening BRICS in Areas of Internal Security, Public Health, Disaster Management and the Role of Media

This book examines BRICS+ countries as a post–Cold War emerging response to the compelling consequences of unipolar order and the overbearing effects of non-military security issues such as internal security, public health security, disaster management, and the role of media. The book:

• Explores the BRICS+ countries’ conception of internal security and its impact on the broader global security architecture in the post–Cold War dispensation.
• Critiques the substance and efficacy of BRICS+ countries’ public health regimes and diplomacy in the context of pandemics and other health emergencies.
• Evaluates the multiple trajectories of natural and artificial disasters in the BRICS countries.
• Assesses the role of the fourth estate in shaping public discourse, such as peacebuilding in the BRICS+ countries, as well as the role of social media through themes such as digital diplomacy.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in international relations, public policy and administration, and media development.

Venkat Ram Reddy Minampati is Associate Professor of Governance and Public Administration at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India. His research interests include agriculture and water resource management, urban governance, and digital governance. He has published articles on sustainable development, internal security, transport governance, and public administration. He is associated with the American Society for Public Administration, BRICS-Research Institute, and the Indian Institute for Public Administration.

Dylan Yanano Mangani is a Community of Practice (CoP) in Law, Governance and Security at the BRICS Research Institute housed at Durban University of Technology in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations with a research focus on BRICS plus studies, Russia’s military-security framework in Africa, ontological and indivisible security in international relations, African nationalist politics and non-violence. Dylan has published in internationally accreditted journals and media houses including Sputnik Africa.

Pradeep Mallik is Professor of Mass Communication and Head of Languages, Literature and Aesthetics at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India. His research interests include development communication, digital literacy, and media ethics. He was Former Deputy Resident Editor at Ahmedabad Mirror with three decades of media experience. He has published articles on democracy, social marketing, and literacy (2012–2018).

Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala is Senior Lecturer and researcher at the International Centre of Nonviolence, based at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa; Associate Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Bandundu, in Bandundu Town (the DRCogo), Evangelical University in Africa, Buvavu Town (the DR Congo), University of Seychelles in Mahe (the Republic of Seychelles), DUT in Durban (South Africa). . Chrys is the founder of the A Hipfunaneni [Let us help each other] Community Project that provides psychosocial assistance to Zimbabwean and Mozambican refugees in Limpopo Province (South Africa). His specialisations consist of restorative justice, post-conflict reconciliation and nation-building, civil society and peacebuilding, environmental studies, peace studies, and governance.