ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the United Nations has a key role to play in managing these interactions and that the retention of the legitimacy the organisation has gained is essential to ensure success in this role. It explores the tangible form of global governance and the role that states, international organisations, and civil society are playing in creating this. This influence is highlighted by continued emphasis placed on the importance of sovereignty, the sovereign rights of states and the on-going tension between the traditional norms of international society and the increasing invocation of the new norms of global governance. It looks positive benefits which regional organisations represent including the proliferation of serious organisations should help the United Nations. It examines the relation to their impact on the UN and its ability to function in a peacekeeping capacity. Not only on the ability of the organisation to function in its peacekeeping role but the on-going development and sustainability of the norms.
