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Discuss the various impediments in India’s way to a permanent seat in the Security Council.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • India and the UN System

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India's case rests on representation, size and contribution: one-sixth of humanity, eight elected terms and a leading peacekeeping record. But it is an equity claim addressed to a Charter built on power, and the obstacles are of unequal weight: one constitutional, one a specific state, several coalitions, and some of India's own making.

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  • The constitutional lock
  • China and the Sino-Pakistani axis
  • Rival coalitions
  • Conditional great-power support
  • Objections to India itself
  • A process without a text
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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