There is an evident divide between the global North and South. The Non-aligned Movement – with 113 members, the most representative group of countries outside the United Nations itself – three times rejected ‘the so-called “right of humanitarian intervention” ’ after the Kosovo War in 1999 and the subsequent statements from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Many developing countries assert a claim to the privilege of managing world order on a shared basis but exhibit a strong reluctance to accept the responsibility flowing from such privilege, for example with respect to protecting the victims of humanitarian atrocities. Some of the big and powerful countries insist on claiming the benefits flowing from collective decision-making, in the form of greater legitimacy and authority, but resist the constraints on policy options that would result from a genuinely shared process of international policy-making. Curiously, the two feed on each other. The South points to the North's monopoly of power and privilege to excuse its own lack of a sense of international responsibility; the North points to the many instances of the South's failure to honour the international responsibility to protect to justify its refusal to restrict international policy-making to the collective UN forum.