Answer each of the following questions on the promise
and peril of economic integration.
What will a potential shift of the economic center of gravity
from the traditional G-8 countries—Canada, United States, Japan,
Germany, UK, France, Italy, and Russia (currently suspended over
its annexation of the Crimea)—to the BRICS countries mean?
Does it signal hope for a new wave of economic growth and new
engines of regional prosperity to drive the global economy, or does
it signal the fading importance...