Multilateral System Thinking

Abstract

Agenda-type policy documents, initiated by the UNSGs, are main points of orientation across UN policy fields. Besides normative advances in resolutions, conventions, and guidelines, they reflect knowledge gathered globally, global political consensus and willingness to take the means in hand and use them for the purposes of development and security. This "UN Building" encompasses as its operative basis a comprehensive HDP (Humanitarian - Development - Peace and Security) approach. Ultimately, mulitlateral system thinking establishes a supposed "third" force between the big rivalry of the twenty-first century, the perceived democratic-autocratic antagonism: Strategic autonomy of regional entities under the principle of equidistance and human-centrism might help foster a new balance-of-power doctrine in world politics, comprising efforts for a maximum of influence in one's own region and a minimum of shared common goals to be managed at global level.