Re-emerging Powers and the Impasse in the UNSC over R2P Intervention in Syria

The article examines the influence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) members that acts as an important condition of success for implementation of the three-pillared Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle in case of Syrian conflict. Analysis has revealed two distinctive features of the BRICS’s positions. Firstly, BRICS has placed particular emphasis on there being a reasonable prospect of success before supporting intervention. Secondly, BRICS’s opposition to military intervention arises perhaps not so much from the regime change issue in Libya as the reality that many of the draft resolutions sponsored by the United States–France–United Kingdom (P3) alliance accused President Bashar Assad’s regime of mass atrocity crimes without levying the same accusation against the rebels fighting the regime.