Explaining emerging powers’ reluctance to adopt intervention norms: normative contestation and hierarchies of responsibility

We argue that emerging powers’ reluctance to conform to new norms at the global level is grounded not in rejection of norms’ content, but in contestation of norms’ implementation, and of the hierarchical manner in which responsibility is defined and attributed. The assessment of Brazil and India’s approach to the issue of intervention supports our argument.

norm contestation; emerging powers; reluctance; responsibility; responsibility to protect