Associate Fellow, Geoeconomics Programme, Observer Research Foundation (India) The World Should Welcome the New Kids on the BlocThe fifteenth BRICS summit has gone further than any other in the recent past to modernize and galvanize the grouping. Nonresident Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Germany) The Geopolitical Moment of the BRICS+The fifteenth BRICS summit will be remembered in two ways: as a summit that decided on the transformation from the BRICS to the BRICS+ and as a summit of complaints against the West for its responsibility for crises and wars and its inability to even control the consequences of these events. The South African government’s enthusiasm for BRICS expansion faced both widespread skepticism about whether the bloc could agree on criteria for admission and tension around the country’s contradictory obligations as summit host and Rome Statute signatory, which in turn led to much hand-wringing about how to handle a potential visit from Russian President Vladimir Putin given the International Criminal Court’s warrant for his arrest