The multilateral grouping known as BRICS or BRICS+—whose first five members were Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—is often portrayed as a unified political, economic, and security counterweight to advanced industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia. The essays in this fascinating volume challenge that simplistic assessment by exploring the bloc’s internal dynamics. Member countries use the BRICS platform to advance their own myriad interests. Russia and China, for example, often try to use the grouping to balance against the United States by pushing aggressively to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar. India, by contrast, views China as a significant threat and has used BRICS meetings to press Beijing on border disputes. Another member, Indonesia, has opted to hedge against the group itself, reaching out to the Europe-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development even as it engages with BRICS. Taken together, the essays leave the impression of a group of countries committed to the bloc as a way to amplify the voices of rising powers and rebalance global governance but unable to overcome internal divisions.