Senator Trood wrote a blog on the Lowy Institute Interpreter.

As usual, Michael Wesley writes with flair and considerable insight on the failings of multilateralism. As I wrote in my 2008 Lowy paper on The Emerging Global Order: Australian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, international organisation, and by extension multilateralism, is indeed in trouble and suffering globally from a deficit of legitimacy. This  is causing governments to look increasingly sceptically on its utility as a tool of 21st century diplomacy.

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http://www.lowyinterpreter.com.au/post/2011/05/20/Multilateralism-works-within-limits.aspx