The growing economic importance of emerging powers is altering the balance of power in international politics. Whether or not the power shift towards emerging countries represents a fundamental challenge to the Western norms that shape global order is a question that has received significant scholarly attention. In distinction from this research, we are primarily interested in how the rise of Brazil, China and India affects the binary differentiation between the Global North and the Global South, a conceptualization that emerged within and then came to constitute a core feature of the post-WWII international order. More specifically, we seek to understand how the rise of Brazil, China and India affects the shape and strength of special rights and obligations assigned to different groups of states in the international governance of climate change, health, and trade from 1995 to 2019. The project is a collaborative effort with colleagues at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).