The Chinese Way by Zang Weiwei

What is a civilizational state? | Thinkers forum · Zhang Weiwei · Aleksandr Dugin · Ejaz Akram

This is a good briefing on what the values are of groups like BRICS and SCO.  How do they function?  How do they converge?  How do they cooperate?  How do the nation-states step into the path of the civilizational states and collide?   This could fit in very well with multipolarity and the poles that will inevitably emerge.