Abstract
The world has grown so tremendously that no country or continent can survive on its own without establishing a strong presence in other parts of the world. The quest for resources from other parts of the world has driven Europeans to Africa and later made colonial rule an inevitable part of that quest for cheap raw materials. The contemporary world, driven by the technological revolution, has broken the barriers to businesses and it has opened the world to competition through free enterprise. Therefore, with the collapse of the unipolar and bipolar world systems multilateralism tends to be the order of the new era. This is because coun
tries in the global system tend to be confronted with sim
ilar, cross-cutting, or common challenges such as energy
crises, climate change issues, terrorism, migration issues,
human rights, and governance issues which invariably
threaten regional or global peace.
