The UN Security Council’s Western-biased membership underrepresents most world civilizations

Evidence

Most of the principal international institutions date from shortly after World War II and are shaped according to Western interests, values, and practices. As Western power declines relative to that of other civilizations, pressures will develop to reshape these institutions to accommodate the interests of those civilizations. … In a multicivilizational world ideally each major civilization should have at least one permanent seat on the Security Council. … From a civilizational viewpoint, clearly Japan and India should be permanent members, and Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world should have permanent seats, which could be occupied on a rotating basis by the leading states of those civilizations, selections being made by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Organization of African Unity, and the Organization of American States (the United States abstaining). It would also be appropriate to consolidate the British and French seats into a single European Union seat, the rotating occupant of which would be selected by the Union. Seven civilizations would thus each have one permanent seat and the West would have two, an allocation broadly representative of the distribution of people, wealth, and power in the world. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 889

Categorization

• QUESTION: The UN Security Council still has the same five permanent members plus no rotating civilization seats nearly 30 years later — worth checking how much of this civilizational-reform argument materialized.
• XREF: Connects to the thesis of the whole book about civilizational fault lines reshaping international order.