BRICS as Constitutional Un-Homogeneous Dynamics

This paper wants to study the consequences of the BRICS phenomenon in the context of contemporary constitutionalism. In literature, the BRICS phenomenon is usually analyzed in the context of international relations and experiences of economic blocs. In this perspective, the fundamental differences between the BRICS and supranational economic blocs are classified in terms of “absence, lack”: the absence of geographical proximity; the absence of bilateral and multilateral relations that are common among the BRICS countries; the absence of converged economic systems; the absence of stable organizational structures to represent the economic bloc; the absence of an internal leadership; the absence of direct or indirect democratic legitimacy in the promotion of the BRICS phenomenon; the absence of common tariff, customs and monetary policies. However, these are descriptive distinctions, say anything about the differences of the constitutional impact that the BRICS phenomenon can produce if compared with the already experimented dynamics of supranational and international cooperation.