International Nongovernmental Organizations (That are not very influential)

There are a number of very powerful organizations that are not formally affiliated with any actual nation, but still command the respect and often obedience of countries across the world. Indeed, between the UN, World Bank, and much more importantly the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO), a vague semblance of a world government is created; if nothing else, it has thus far been a stabilizing influence. Of course, there are many, many more organizations out there that, well, no one really cares about too much, at least here in the first world.

As a probable citizen of one of its members, you've likely heard of the G8 (Group of Eight); an association of eight of the most powerful and wealthy nations. But what about the much larger and much less important G77?

The Group of 77 (Which actually has 131 members) consists primarily of developing nations, but more literally it encompasses almost every member nation of the UN that isn't in the G8.

Analogously, there exists a near-irrelevant counterpart to the cold war treaty nations - NATO (US aligned) and the Warsaw Pact nations (Soviet controlled more than "aligned").

It's called, descriptively enough, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), who's define themselves as not formally aligned either with or against any major power bloc. However, they were nowhere near cohesive as either of the military groups they had meant to emulate and indirectly oppose (no mutual defense agreements). Moreover, many of their members

These guys do have websites, but they look like they were set up by the nephew of a guy who runs a landscaping business out of his truck. Read more about them on their sites or wikipedia; as you may have guessed, they don't actually do very much at all.

Better yet, read more about the important institutions i mentioned; IMF, WTO, World Bank, UN Security Council, etc...