| ID | 140415 |
| Title Proper | Contested intervention |
| Other Title Information | China, India, and the responsibility to protect |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dunne, Tim ; Teitt, Sarah |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines institutional patterns of leadership and followership in the UN Security Council with respect to the Responsibility to Protect principle. In a departure from existing literature on leadership and followership in international relations, which has hitherto been framed within a realist analysis, the article presents a constructivist account of leadership that sheds light on the strategies and scope of conditions for mobilizing international action to protect populations from mass atrocities. The article applies a theoretical innovation to case studies that examine strategies that India and China adopted in the Security Council to respond to the crises in Libya and Syria from 2011 to 2013. This integration of theory and empirics reveals a complex and layered account of factors that shape the Security Council's ability to exercise its Responsibility to Protect. In doing so, the article demonstrates that followership and leadership are relational practices that create or limit the possibilities for institutional action. |
| `In' analytical Note | Global Governance Vol. 21, No.3; Jul/Sep 2015: p.371-391 |
| Journal Source | Global Governance Vol: 21 No 3 |
| Key Words | Leadership ; China ; India ; United Nations Security Council ; Constructivism ; Responsibility to Protect ; Followership |