TITLE:
The UN Security Council Permanent Membership: The Troubling Trend of Expansion and Hegemony
AUTHORS:
Fiemotongha Christopher, Nein Godknows, Isaac E. Uki, Ogbotubo L. Seaman, Edoni H. Harcourt
KEYWORDS:
Expansion, Hegemony, Permanent Membership, Security Council, UN, Veto Power
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.11 No.2,
April
25,
2021
ABSTRACT: The paper is on the UN Security Council (UNSC) permanent membership: The
troubling trend of expansion and hegemony. The problem of UN Security Council,
which is an exclusive nuclear club, whose powers are unchecked, with lack of
true international representation and with powers to veto, is the dominance of
the permanent members. The main objective of the study is to investigate an
overview of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) permanent membership and
examine the Troubling Trend of hegemony and the problem of expansion. The
methodology is basically a qualitative and exploratory method, using text,
newspapers. The study employs power politics theory as a tool for analysis. One
major finding amongst others is that, there is a global hegemony of the
permanent members of the Security Council. The permanent members block other
member states of the UN, who seeks expansion or vies for permanent seat,
through their powers of veto. This paper recommends the expansion of the United
Nations Security Council (UNSC) permanent membership to include Africa and
other power centres for fair representation in the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC).