Rising powers distrusted the responsibility-to-protect doctrine as a cover for force
Evidence
In 2011, Dilma Rousseff became the first woman to ever open the UN General Assembly (Brazil always goes first) and used the speech to take aim at problems with the “responsibility to protect” doctrine, insisting that the use of force should be a last resort. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 245
Categorization
- QUESTION: Brazil’s R2P critique here foreshadows its later ‘responsibility while protecting’ proposal — worth chasing how that doctrine developed and failed.
- XREF: connects to: Responsibility-to-Protect discourse shifted sovereignty from nations to individuals