Investing in international security: rising powers and organizational choices. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hofmann, Stephanie C.; Bravo De Moraes Mendes, Barbara; Campbell, Susanna
• Is Part Of: Cambridge review of international affairs. Volume 29:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 831
• Page End: 851
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: International law -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 909.8205
• DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2016.1230593
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0955-7571

Abstract

Abstract: How do rising powers choose to allocate their finite resources among the multiple global and regional security organizations? Building on the literatures on forum shopping and rising powers, we argue that the different organizational investment choices of rising powers are explained by varying regional ideational affinities. Organizational settings have ideational foundations that can look very different from region to region. We argue that regional ideational affinity leads rising powers to invest in regional rather than global organizations. However, if the ideational composition of the region is highly diverse, global organizations are a better vehicle to accommodate rising powers' emergent ambitions. To demonstrate our argument, we examine the choices of Brazil and South Africa in terms of their material and ideational investments in regional and global organizations.