A Coalition for Peace and Security: The Power of the Quad in the United Nations
February 17, 2022
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda’s article ‘A Coalition for Peace and Security: The Power of the Quad in the United Nations’ has been published in the Asia Global Online, University of Hong Kong on 17 February 2022.
The article argues that Collective bargaining and coalition-building within international organizations is not a new strategy. During the Korean War for instance, India brought together the small Commonwealth countries to play a constraining role by pushing through a resolution in 1952 in face of rising US-Soviet tensions. More recently, the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) banded together to exercise their “collective financial and monetary statecraft”, based on shared perceptions and objectives, in the pursuit of common foreign and economic policy goals. On a bilateral level, the Quad countries already cooperate in the UN (a key aspect of the India-Japan global partnership). Now, they must elevate such bilateral engagement to initiate Quad consultations on joint strategies that bolster their bargaining power and help advance shared interests.
