The document discusses the challenge the US faces in integrating emerging global powers like Brazil, China, and India into existing international institutions. While increased cooperation is needed to address issues like terrorism and climate change, there are also tensions because these nations want a greater voice in global governance and may resist Western rules. The US will need to make room for these countries in reformed structures through multilateral diplomacy and compromise, but some established powers may resist diluting their own authority.

1. Irresponsible Stakeholders?
Article by S. Patrick, Foreign Affairs (Nov./Dez. 2010)
International Organizations
31.03.2011

2. Irresponsible Stakeholders?
 Issue
◦ The impact of the growth of powerful developing nations on
traditional geopolitics
◦ E.g.: Brazil, China, and India

3. 1. The Difficulty of Integration rising Powers
 USA is faced to a strategic challenge: integration emerging powers
into international institutions
 Emerging powers may be demand greater global influence
 but they often oppose the political and economic ground rules
 During the next 10 years, the U.S. will have to accommodate new
powers in reformed structures of global governance while
safeguarding the Western liberal order

4. 2. Testing Obama„s Ambitions
 China as „responsible Stakeholder“, this principle extended by
Obama to all rising nations
 National Security Strategy: integration emerging powers into world
order
 Objective: manage global interdependence
 Changing: today‟s international problems need to be resolved not
only by Western representatives
 By giving emerging countries a greater stake, the Obama
administration is hoping to increase the legitimacy of existing
arrangements
  bilateral dialogue with world‟s non-Western powers

5. 3. Multipolarity without Multilateralism
 Global interdependence is increasing
 But fundamental interests still collide and strategic rivalries persist
 What if the new global order leads to an era of multipolarity
without multilateralism?
 Cooperation does not mean there is no competition
 Example - USA & China:
◦ U.S. objective: balance of power in East Asia & democracy
◦ China‟s objective: keep dominance in East Asia & communism
 Example - China & India:
◦ increasing competition, especially at the border
 Even if basic interests of established and emerging powers
align (terrorism, climate change…) the priorities can differ

6. 4. Compromise may come second
 Different view on global governance
 Emerging nations are intent on altering existing rules
 They do not grant the U.S. the sole authority to define limits of
responsible sovereignty
 Source of tension: limits of national sovereignty
 Economic relations: all emerging players seek to have greater
weight in global governance, but not necessarily seek more global
governance
 U.S. often insists of enforcement of international rules
 Little insight is provided by the White House into what it can or
will do to persuade these powers to cooperate

7. 5. Power without Responisbility
 Rising powers enjoy often privileges of power without assuming its
obligations, they prefer free-riding on the contributions of
established nations
 They wrestle within conflicting identities
◦ they want to alleviate poverty, thus they resist global initiatives that
would hamper their domestic growth
 Addressing global problems calls for meaningful cooperation, also
with non-democracies

8. 6. Change from within
 The more important the institution, the more its powerful
members will resist diluting their authority within in
 Example: China & Russia oppose allowing any new permanent
members to join US Security Council (no limitation of veto power
or extension that gives power to others)
 Expansion of existing forums can also harm consensus: G-8 became
G-20, for sensitive security and political issues not the best

9. 7. A grand Bargain
 The U.S. has no other choice but to rely on rising powers to help
address today‟s global challenge
 Quick integration or incremental approach?
 A multilateral cooperation within large groups will increasingly rest
on “minilateral” agreements

10. 8. Preservation through Cooperation
 Biggest obstacle to integrate rising powers into the world order
may come from within the U.S.
 Making room requires psychological adjustment, defined
touchstones have to be reevaluated
 U.S. will have to become a more consistent exemplar of multilateral
cooperation

11. Findings
 Outcome
◦ The emerging powers are often not content to observe traditions established in
the post- Second World War era
◦ Many problems have to be faced
◦ To maintain the liberal regimen the United States will be required to adopt a
policy of multilateral cooperation and diplomacy