CRP WORKING PAPER SERIES Deconstructing the BRICs: Bargaining coalition, imagined community or geopolitical fad? Christian Brütsch Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich Mihaela Papa Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Law School Working Paper No. 5 October 2012 http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/CRP/research/workingpapers/ ISSN 2046-8393 (Online) Centre for Rising Powers Department of Politics and International Studies