strengths and weaknesses

• Brizil-strengths

  • large supply of oils and biofuels
  • growing middle class consumer market
  • agricultural and mineral heavyweight eg soya,tin
• Brazil-limitations

  • small military-only involved in regional affairs
  • high levels of domestic inequality- income, healthcare,education
  • forests threatened by illegal deforestation
• Russia-strengths

  • strong military power and nuclear weapons
  • significant oil and gas supplies
  • growing economic and political links to asia
• russia-limitations

  • ageing and declining populations
  • difficult geopolitical relationships with the USA and Europe, no longer part of G7
  • limited amounts of cultural exports
• india- strengths

  • youthful population with growing number of graduates- huge economic potential
  • growing middle class
  • posses nuclear weapons, missile technology ect
• india limitaitons

  • high levels of povery
  • poor transport infrastructure
• china- strengths

  • a large and increasingly educated population
  • a growing military with nuclear weapons
  • investing in infrastructure products to increase trade with china and rest of world
• china- limitations

  • ageing population due to one child policy
  • major air and water pollutions as a result of unregulated industrialisation
  • heavily reliant on importing raw materials eg oil,soya