ABSTRACT

This chapter proposes to broaden the discussion and explore the attitudes of emerging powers toward the current practices of global security institutions, organizations operating in an issue domain that is typically more resistant to institutional change than economic ones. It focuses on one key aspect of security governance: the imposition of targeted sanctions by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to support non-proliferation goals. The chapter explores the attitudes of four pivotal emerging powers: India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey, on the use of UN sanctions in support of non-proliferation goals. These are countries that have worked hard to support the nuclear order in many areas, while simultaneously frustrating non-proliferation sanctions in some others. There are at least two different ways international organizations could adapt themselves in anticipation of emergence of new powers: through ideational adaptation and/or through substantive, structural reform.