Abstract
Abstract This chapter takes as its focus the diplomatic efforts that India pursued in seeking permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council under the two United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments between 2004 and 2014. This period saw India develop collective positions through the G4 from late 2004 and the L69 grouping from 2007 and cultivate individual country pledges in support of India’s candidature. It also saw India take up a two-year stint as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council from 2011 to 2012. Throughout this period, Indian representatives energized the nature and direction of the deliberations over Security Council reform within the UN. However, procedural hurdles, competing formulas for reform, concerns over the legitimacy of an expanded Council, geopolitics, and international status contests precluded any straightforward solution to the question of UNSC reform.
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