Abstract
How do emerging powers attempt normative resistance to influence normative changes in the international order? By viewing emerging powers as agents of productive normative change, this study aims to examine how China as an emerging power influences the normative change of the responsibility to protect through an in-depth case study of its normative resistance tactics to the norm. For this analysis, this article first reviews related theoretical discussions and presents a theoretical framework for analysis. Then, focusing on the three important periods in the process of normative development of the responsibility to protect (the process of introducing and institutionalizing the norm from 2000 to 2005, the process of implementing the norm after the 2005 World Summit (2005-2011), and the process of implementing the norm in the 2011 Libyan crisis and thereafter), it analyzes which normative resistance tactics China has used to influence the process of change and implementation of the norm. For this analysis, an empirical case study is conducted, including text analysis of China's statements and speeches as well as meeting records and resolutions related to the responsibility to protect at the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly. Based on the analysis results, this article discusses the implications for the debate on the role and influence of emerging powers in the normative change of international order.
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