ABSTRACT
The search for constructive elements in emerging societies as contributions towards building a truly omnilateral system will, of course, remain an ongoing task that will never be finished as long as history flows and does not end, which is people basic axiom and starting point. The need for legitimacy has become obvious again particularly in the recent Asian Crisis when International Monetary Fund measures on occasions were opposed as being solely Western-made. Therefore, only stakeholding through proactive contributions by all members would allow the international system to evolve into a modern form of participatory governance, to be dubbed omnilateralism. As the logic of Europe as Weltkind in der Mitten indicates, there has to be some balance of weight on both sides, in the east as well as in the west of Europe. Europe had avoided thorny issues that would have caused confrontations and had instead stressed on development.
