TY - BOOK AU - STEPHEN Matthew D. TI - Rising powers, global capitalism and liberal global governance: a historical materialist account of the BRICs challenge PY - 2014/// KW - BRIC N2 - This article analyses the phenomenon of rising powers from a historical materialist perspective. It elaborates the key concepts of historical structures of world order, state-society complexes and transnational class formation, and applies them to Brazil, Russia, India, China and other so-called 'rising powers' to account for the nature and extent of the challenge they pose to the existing institutions of global governance UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066114523655 ER -