Brazil As A Rising Power: Intervention Norms And The Contestation Of Global Order (global Institutions)

This book examines the normative tensions inherent in upward mobility within the international system, focusing particularly on the clash between sovereign self-interest and the putatively universal norms associated with international interventions. It provides extensive detail and deep analysis of Brazil’s nature as a rising power, and that nature’s implications for how the country crafts its international profile on issues such as intervention. In addition, the book proposes innovative ways of (re)organising thematic, conceptual and empirical research on the normative behaviour of emergent powers with regard to institutions of global governance and questions of intervention. In analysing what distinguishes Brazil as a rising power, the contributors begin from the assumption that participation in intervention is an increasingly crucial element in demonstrating the capacity and responsibility for which demand accrues as a state seeks increased international profile. As such, the debates around intervention serve as an indicative locus for examining the clash of norms that accompanies emergence as a global player. The book’s approach is to organise the analysis around thematic rather than chronological or praxis-based lines, using the Brazilian case as an illustrative example capable of extrapolation to other emerging powers such as Turkey, India and others. This work draws together rich empirical detail with sophisticated and varied conceptual analysis and will be of interest to scholars of international relations, Latin-American politics and global governance. In recent decades there have been several constructivist scholars who have looked at how norms change in international relations. However few have taken a closer look at the particular strategies that are employed to further change, or looked at the common factors that have been in play in these processes. This book seeks to further the debates by looking at both agency and structure in tandem.It focuses on the practices of linked ecologies (formal or informal alliances), undertaken by individuals who are the constitutive parts of norm change processes and who have moved between international organizations, academic institutions, think tanks, NGOs and member states. The book sheds new light on how norm change comes about, focusing on the practices of individual actors as well as collective ones. The book draws attention to the role of practices in UN peacekeeping missions and how these may create a bottom–up influence on norm change in UN peacekeeping, and the complex interplay between government and UN officials, applied and academic researchers, and civil society activists forming linked ecologies in processes of norm change. With this contribution, the study further expands the understanding of which actors have agency and what sources of authority they draw on in norm change processes in international organizations. A significant contribution to the study of international organizations and UN peacekeeping, as well as to the broader questions of global norms in IR, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations alike. Rebels Or Aspirants : Rising Powers, Normative Contestation And Intervention / Kai Michael Kenkel And Philip Cunliffe -- Rising Powers And International Intervention : The Constraints On Collective Action / Alcides Costa Vaz -- Norms And Tolerance Between Words And Deeds : Brazil's Long-term Approach To Global Governance / Antonio Jorge Ramalho -- Modernization In-between : The Ambivalent Role Of Brazil In Contemporary Peacebuilding Efforts In Africa / Marta Fernández And Carolos Frederico Pereira Da Silva Gama -- International Interventions And The Use Of Force : A Theoretical Framework For Understanding Rising Powers' Normative Responses / Carolos Chagas Vianna Braga -- The Ethics Of The Responsibility While Protecting : Brazil, The Responsibility To Protect, And The Restrictive Approach To Humanitarian Intervention / James Pattison -- Multilateral Interventions As A Power-enhancing Instrument : Rising Powers' Path From The Periphery To The Center / Nil Seda Satana -- A Right Of Intervention Or A Global-social R2p? / Oliver P. Richmond -- R2p And The Interplay Between Policy And Norms In A Shifting Global Order / Ramesh Thakur. Edited By Kai Michael Kenkel And Philip Cunliffe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Rebels or aspirants : rising powers, normative contestation and intervention / Kai Michael Kenkel and Philip Cunliffe -- Rising powers and international intervention : the constraints on collective action / Alcides Costa Vaz -- Norms and tolerance between words and deeds : Brazil's long-term approach to global governance / Antonio Jorge Ramalho -- Modernization in-between : the ambivalent role of Brazil in contemporary peacebuilding efforts in Africa / Marta Fernandez and Carolos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama -- International interventions and the use of force : a theoretical framework for understanding rising powers' normative responses / Carolos Chagas Vianna Braga -- The ethics of the "responsibility while protecting" : Brazil, the Responsibility to Protect, and the restrictive approach to humanitarian intervention / James Pattison -- Multilateral interventions as a power-enhancing instrument : rising powers' path from the periphery to the center / Nil Seda Satana -- A right of intervention or a global-social R2P? / Oliver P. Richmond -- R2P and the interplay between policy and norms in a shifting global order / Ramesh Thakur 1. Linked ecologies in United Nations peacekeeping -- 2. Theorizing linked ecologies in norm change processes -- 3. SRSGs as norm arbitrators? Understanding bottom-up authority in UN peacekeeping -- 4. Linked ecologies and responsibility to protect -- 5. Linked ecologies and revolving doors for norm change in peacekeeping operations -- 6. The United Nations as a competitive arena for norm change -- 7. Linked ecologies in international relations Several constructivist scholars have looked at how norms change in IR; fewer have looked at the particular strategies employed to further change, and the common factors in play in these processes.