1. Normative resistance to responsibility to protect in times of emerging multipolarity: the cases of Brazil and Russia
- Author:
- Anna Kotyashko, Laura Cristina Ferreira-Pereira, and Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira
- Publication Date:
- 12-2018
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
- Institution:
- Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (IBRI)
- Abstract:
- This article assesses the normative resistance to Responsibility to Protect adopted by Brazil and Russia against the backdrop of their international identities and self-assigned roles in a changing global order. Drawing upon the framework of Bloomsfield’s norm dynamics role spectrum, it argues that while the ambiguous Russian role regarding this principle represents an example of ‘norm antipreneurship’, particularities of Brazil’s resistance are better grasped by a new category left unaccounted for by this model, which this study portrays as ‘contesting entrepreneur’.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, United Nations, Responsibility to Protect (R2P), UN Security Council, and Normative Resistance
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Brazil, and Global Focus