Abstract
The inter- and non-state Commonwealths may be more necessary in the unilateralist world of the early twenty-first century than in the somewhat multilateral 'new world order' of the post-bipolar 1990s. But neither official nor unofficial Commonwealth has yet been treated seriously in the literatures and discourses of global governance or new multilateralisms. Given the Commonwealth's chequered history, including almost falling apart over the resilience of minority regimes in Southern Africa , it is remarkable that it has now come to suspend members who violate human rights, unlike almost all other international organisations. Currently, its myriad professional associations constitute a hotbed of civil society activity. If they are to survive, let alone thrive, in the new unilateral millennium, the Commonwealths need to harness such energy and potential.
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