1st Edition

Brazil as a Rising Power Intervention Norms and the Contestation of Global Order

Edited By Kai Michael Kenkel, Philip Cunliffe Copyright 2016
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction.  Rebels or aspirants: Rising powers, normative contestation and intervention KAI MICHAEL KENKEL AND PHILIP CUNLIFFE  1. Rising powers and international intervention: The constraints on collective action ALCIDES COSTA VAZ  2. Norms and tolerance between words and deeds: Brazil’s long-term approach to global governance ANTONIO JORGE RAMALHO  3. Modernization in-between: The ambivalent role of Brazil in contemporary peacebuilding efforts in Africa MARTA FERNÁNDEZ AND CARLOS FREDERICO PEREIRA DA SILVA GAMA  4. International interventions and the use of force: A theoretical framework for understanding rising powers’ normative responses CARLOS CHAGAS VIANNA BRAGA  5. The ethics of the "responsibility while protecting": Brazil, the Responsibility to Protect, and the restrictive approach to humanitarian intervention JAMES PATTISON  6. Multilateral interventions as a power-enhancing instrument: Rising powers’ path from the periphery to the center NIL SEDA SATANA  7. A right of intervention or a global-social R2P? OLIVER P. RICHMOND  8. R2P and the interplay between policy and norms in a shifting global order RAMESH THAKUR

Biography

Philip Cunliffe is a Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent.



Kai Michael Kenkel is part of the permanent faculty at PUC-Rio, Brazil.