Although the 'post-post Cold War era' marked by the end of Western A hegemony and the rise of multipolarity is welcome for ushering in a fairer and more democratic distribution of power in the international system, it is also represented by extremist tendencies, unabated warfare, mass displacement and human suffering. The combination of "traditional" and "transnational" threats to security, which the American government foresaw as unique to this era around the turn of the millennium, seem to be metastasizing in the second decade of the century, producing mindnumbing brutality and human rights abuses on a global scale."