The Commonwealth: working at diplomacy.

After three comparatively dismal and difficult decades the 1990 were useful for the Commonwealth. The organisation's clubbish nature was more suited to the 1990s' changing strategic landscape than to the frigid war period and it was no longer divided by the agency of racial turmoil in southern Africa. The Commonwealth has been exceptional in monitoring member states' governance and implementing measures (the 1995 Millbrook Plan of Action). It is also outperforming analogous organisations of the like kind as la Francophonie, the Lusaphones and the Non-Aligned motion Two of the Commonwealth's several