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India’s recognition as a nuclear power: a case of strategic cooptation / Frankenbach, Patrick; Kruck, Andreas; Zangl, Bernhard

Zangl, Bernhard	Journal Article
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In the mid-2000s, India turned from a nuclear pariah of the international community into a de facto recognized nuclear power. Why and how did this status elevation come about? Realist, liberal, and constructivist perspectives point to important motivations but fail to elucidate the process of India’s (re-)integration. Our strategic cooptation argument conceives of India’s status upgrade as an exchange of institutional privileges for institutional support. To stabilize the nuclear non-proliferation regime, the United States and other nuclear powers offered India the privilege of being recognized as nuclear power—and of taking part in international nuclear trade—in return for India’s promise to provide additional support to the non-proliferation regime. This deal materialized because India was able and willing to provide the needed support and because the institutional setting provided favorable conditions for circumventing and overcoming third-party resistance. We thus establish “strategic cooptation” as a mode of adapting international security institutions.

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India ; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime ; International Security Institutions ; Global Power Shift ; Institutional Adaptation ; Strategic Cooptation

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Peace and security council of the African Union: evaluating an embryonic international institution / Williams, Paul D

Williams, Paul D	Journal Article
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2009.

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How has the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union helped promote peace, security and stability on the African continent? This article assesses the PSC's activities in light of insights generated by the literature on international security institutions. After providing an overview of the immediate origins of the PSC, it discusses five elements of the Council's institutional design. It then evaluates the PSC's activities during its first five years (2004-9), by examining the Council's political relevance, its efficiency and productivity, and whether it is the institution best placed to deal with the continent's security problems. It concludes that the PSC's future will hinge on whether more of the African Union's members can be persuaded to devote more serious levels of resources (human and financial) to it.

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African Union ; International Institution ; Peace and Security Council ; International Security Institutions

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