ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to investigate to what extent Brazil coherently conceives norms and practices based on a critical perception of political justice in international security regime. The interest about the role of countries from the Geopolitical South has grown in the 21st century. However, there is still room for further academic contributions that focus on case studies contrasting the normative content and empirical analysis of states' stance in the international security regime. This chapter's core claim is developed in two main sections – one that focuses on how Brazil is trying to reshape norms in the international security regime and a second section, which studies Brazilian practices in peace operations. The final section concludes that Brazil has developed its own practices in peacekeeping, even though its normative construction has inherent contradictions.
