How representative are brics?

Thakur, Ramesh

doi:10.4324/9781315670133-4

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“…The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have endorsed R2P as a principle, support Pillars One and Two, but diverge occasionally from western countries on Pillar Three regarding when and how to apply it. 97 Asia is particularly interesting because during the ICISS outreach in 2001, its opposition to intervention was the most hard-line of all continents. 98 The Asia-Pacific Centre for R2P has led efforts to socialize the region on the 2005 version of R2P.…”

Section: Major and Emerging Powersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Responsibility to Protect at 15

Thakur

2016

International Affairs

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In the fifteen years since the publication of the report ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, there has been a burgeoning literature on all aspects of R2P. This review article focuses on five issues. First, it revisits the shift from ‘humanitarian intervention’ to R2P as the key innovation in 2001, highlighting the political, conceptual, normative, procedural and operational differences between the two. Second, it examines the state of knowledge regarding the causes of atrocities; the institutional vulnerabilities and points of resilience; the pathways from simmering animosities to mass killings; the indicators and precursors; and the most effective preventive and response mechanisms. Third, it reviews the unsatisfactory state of R2P implementation. Fourth, it discusses the main R2P actors, from international organizations and key groups of states to individuals. Finally, it addresses the continuing scepticism about R2P, in that it does not resolve all the dilemmas of how outsiders can provide timely, decisive and effective assistance to any group in need of protection.

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Section: Major and Emerging Powersmentioning

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The Responsibility to Protect at 15

Thakur

2016

International Affairs

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“…The RtoP consensus underpinning Resolution 1973 was damaged by gaps in expectation, communication, and accountability between those who mandated the operation and those who executed it. 35 Indeed, the effects of the Libya intervention continue to act as a barrier to the future application of RtoP especially in Syria where millions of civilians have been killed.…”

Section: Libya and The 2011 Uprisingmentioning

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The Practice, Pitfalls, and Prospects of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa

Erameh¹

2019

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“…74 Russia's military conquests of the last decade appear to have demonstrated Thakur's assertion that 'Westerners have lost their previous capacity to set standards and rules of behaviour for the world'. 75 Despite Russia's ostensibly anti-Western stance, some scholars have emphasised its continuing Eurocentrism. Viatcheslav Morozov highlights Russia's unique position in the international system that consists of 'a subaltern condition fraught with an imperial legacy'.…”

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How postcolonial is post-Western IR? Mimicry and mētis in the international politics of Russia and Central Asia

2017

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Scholars of International Relations have called for the creation of a post-Western IR that reflects the global and local contexts of the declining power and legitimacy of the West. Recognising this discourse as indicative of the postcolonial condition, we deploy Homi Bhabha’s concept of mimicry and James C. Scott’s notion of mētis to assess whether international political dynamics of a hybrid kind are emerging. Based on interviews with Central Asian political, economic, and cultural elites, we explore the emergence of a new global politics of a post-Western type. We find that Russia substantively mimics the West as a post-Western power and that there are some suggestive examples of the role of mētis in its foreign policy. Among Central Asian states, the picture is more equivocal. Formal mimicry and mētis of a basic kind are observable, but these nascent forms suggest that the dialectical struggle between colonial clientelism and anti-colonial nationalism remains in its early stages. In this context, a post-Western international politics is emerging with a postcolonial aspect but without the emergence of the substantive mimicry and hybrid spaces characteristic of established postcolonial relations.

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How representative are brics?

Cited by 14 publications

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The Responsibility to Protect at 15

The Responsibility to Protect at 15

The Practice, Pitfalls, and Prospects of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa

How postcolonial is post-Western IR? Mimicry and mētis in the international politics of Russia and Central Asia

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