BRICS: A New Actor in Global Security

... Although secondary in sponsoring the peacemaking process, BRICS states by far outpace Western countries in terms of personnel strength within UN contingents ( see Table 1 ). Table 1. BRICS countries in UN Peacekeeping Activities (as of October 31, 2012) Country Police Experts Military Total India 1 001 51 6 812 7 864 South Africa 61 20 2 120 2 201 China 172 37 1710 1 919 Brazil 11 24 1676 1 711 Russia 38 62 5 105 BRICS countries 1 283 194 12 323 13 800 All countries 12 811 1 899 83 611 98 321 Source : UN India indisputably outnumbers its BRICS partners and is followed by Brazil, with South Africa ...