Since the Kosovo case there has been a discussion on whether democracies should intervene in obvious cases of humani- tarian disasters when action in the Security Council is blocked by a veto (usually by China and Russia which object to intervention in principle).A proposal has been made to expand the role of NATO to a “Global NATO” that could perform this function by cooperating with and including other democracies. A broader version of this concept has called for a “concert of democracies” that would combine all democracies in a new global institution which attempts to contribute to a better world order.