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Regionalism and the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Francis O. Wilcox
Francis O. Wilcox
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A member of the Board of Editors of International Organization, is Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He has served as United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
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Old soldiers may “just fade away” as General Douglas MacArthur reminded us, but the controversy over the relative merits of regionalism and globalism in international organization will ever be with us. That question generated as much heat as any other issue at San Francisco in 1945 with the possible exception of the veto. In more recent years the inadequacies of the United Nations, the changing nature of the Cold War, the growth and expansion of regional organizations, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the continued shrinking of the universe have kept the heat of this controversy at a relatively high level.

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IV. Looking to the Future
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International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965 , pp. 788 - 811
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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