ABSTRACT

This chapter engages the challenges of good governance models and argues that it is not political diversity per se that hinders the establishment of a modern concert. Instead, it distinguishes between varying senses of mission that are at the heart of each state’s foreign and security policies. By examining the sense of mission of the United States, India, China, Russia Brazil and Saudi Arabia, the author finds that it is, in particular, the Western inclination to expand the scope of democratic governance that places limits on cooperating with regimes that do not share Western principles.