Leader Visits and UN Security Council Membership

Abstract Existing international relations literature on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) paints a picture where States proactively lobbies other UNSC members using carrots and sticks, whereas China is quiet, content with its veto power, acts only to punish when core interests are hurt. We add nuance present different perspective actively promotes agenda among members. Using newly collected data from 2000 2020, we show that Chinese leaders visit Africa, they three times more likely sitting member country than nonmember country. obtain similar results replicate our models seminal work by Dreher et al. (2018).