ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the global governance is understood to mean the management of transnational issues by states, international institutions, social movements and other relevant public and private actors through norms, laws and policies. Large numbers of civilians are killed in armed conflict from direct violence and through ‘excess deaths’ caused by conflict-related hunger and disease. Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court alike spoke eloquently to the need to change the UN’s normative framework in line with the changed reality of threats and victims. An important explanation for the exceptionally rapid advance of R2P on the global policy agenda is that it was heavily demand driven in response to distressingly evident gaps in the existing normative architecture by the end of the last century. The end of the Cold War was a triple triumph: of US and Western power, political pluralism and the market economy.
