Exploring ‘Accommodation’ to Understand the Behaviour of Rising Powers in the Global Nuclear Order: The Cases of India and Brazil

First put forth by Hedley Bull in the 1970s, notion of ‘accommodation’ is an often-neglected approach to understanding role, rights and responsibilities emerging nuclear powers from Global South order. The existing literature looks at avenues conditions through which institutions order grant accommodation. However, analysis demands raised rising various stages order's development severely lacking. cases India Brazil, two with advanced capabilities, highlight some accommodation these states during early Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) – a cornerstone agreement global architecture. Two important namely, regional security considerations system adoption principle mutual obligations have shaped states’ behaviour vis-à-vis NPT.