Rudiger Wolfrum has long been a champion of international organisation, and the UN in particular, emphasizing its instrumentality in developing an internationalised approach to matters of common concern to the international community. International law in general can be normatively evaluated against a number of standards such as peace, security, prosperity, or solidarity. The standards that the UN has recently been formulating for the institutional set up of its member states apply across its membership, and, in the last instance, they are enforceable by the Security Council operating in conjunction with regional organisations and-through the UN Human Rights Council-the UN General Assembly. A state or government failing to fulfil its primary responsibility by using force will be deemed to have lost the consent of the governed and thereby open itself up to collective enforcement action by the UN Security Council.  Keywords:international organisation, legitimate institutions, UN member states