//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>108 : The Global Governance Group (‘3G’) and Singaporean Leadership: Can Small be Significant?
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
19 May 2010
Since the modern state system came into existence following the Treaty of Westphalia in
1648, nations have resorted to groupings among themselves seeking accretion of strength and
power. This has led to conflicts through the centuries culminating in the two cataclysmic
World Wars in the twentieth century. However, the creation of the ‘mother of all groupings’,
the United Nations (UN) in 1946 has possibly averted, at least to date, another major manmade
global disaster.