UN General Assembly
2010

United Nations in global governance. It could not have been better timed, at a moment when the global community is grappling with myriad challenges facing the international system. The end of the cold war, together with an explosion in information and communication technologies, gave rise to a new paradigm of flexible or loose functional coalitions involving State and non-State actors. A new configuration of interdependent relationships, economic, social, political and ethnic in nature, has emerged from those historic circumstances. There are fears that globalization nurtures the dominance of power politics, a growing disparity between the North and the South, intolerance of different values, a tendency to resort to force to solve international conflicts, and neglect of the environment. At the same time, globalization has led to a multilevel system of governance that is beginning to address global issues ranging from economic interdependence, migration, financial crises and drug trafficking to the pandemics of tuberculosis, avian flu, HIV/AIDS and malaria. It is in recognition of the imperative to promote multilateralism and build synergies with both State and