‘Multilateral diplomacy owed its growing popularity to the fact that conferences in the European States-system were essentially conferences of Great powers’ (Berridge, 2010, 144).
Multilateral diplomacy or conferences is a phenomenon of the 20th century.
According to the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), governments can no longer afford to ignore the value of multilateral diplomacy as a strategic tool for solving problems.
Therefore multilateral diplomacy address the following issues: human rights, humanitarian assistance, labour rights, national and transnational environmental issues, fair trade and in all of these cases, national sovereignty is challenge.
But today, the increase member of richer nations from G8 to G20 shows how multilateral diplomacy is important on raising important issues like the world financial crisis which in 2008/2009 affect lesser developed nations.
Foe example the EU plays a structurally driven great power role in the UNFF (The EU in International Forestry Negotiations) and has a common trade policy (The Common Commercial Policy) and is unanimously viewed as a great power in trade diplomacy. (Elgstrom, 2007, 451).
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