The current international context makes the BRICS group all the more relevant and important. The United States, the country responsible for the creation of the so-called liberal international order following the Second World War, with institutions like the UN, the FMI and the World Bank, finds itself now on a course of retrenchment towards a narrow-minded, backward-looking, nationalistic posture. The new American government has become the object of growing concerns by the international community on a series of topics.