ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, rising powers in international intervention has arisen as a prominent issue both in international security practice and in academic debates. However, rising powers seeking greater commitment and engagement with a new generation of peace operations did not imply that this willingness evolved necessarily from a strong base of shared interests, objectives, and strategic perspectives. Rising powers comprise a highly heterogeneous set of actors facing different regional challenges and endowed with different capabilities for acting internationally. China's stance on intervention and R2P has been defined by the emphasis it places on ideological perspectives that favor a strict commitment to inviolability and non-intervention in domestic affairs. India is usually portrayed in the literature on international security as a regional power oriented by Realist approaches concerning its immediate strategic environment. Brazil took a R2P during the debate leading up to the ICISS Report, because of fears of legitimizing forms of intervention of which it might eventually become a target.
