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Regional Organization and the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Norman J. Padelford
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One of the marked features of international relations in recent years has been the growth of regional groupings and organizations. Included among the more notable regional arrangements formed since 1944 are the League of Arab States, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the Organization of American States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Coal and Steel Community. In addition to these and other existent arrangements are proposals for the creation of a European Defense Community and a European Political Community, the idea of a Pacific Pact resembling NATO, the concept of a Middle East Defense organization, and a possible linkage of Asian States.

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International Organization , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , May 1954 , pp. 203 - 216
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1954

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References

1 See Hartshorne, Richard, The Nature of Geography (Lancaster, Pa., 1939), chs., 9–10Google Scholar.

2 See Goodrich, Leland M. and Hambro, Edvard, Charter of the United Nations, Commentary and Documents (rev. ed., 1949), p. 310–311 for reference to discussion at San FranciscoGoogle Scholar.

3 See Goodrich and Hambro, op.cit., ch. viii.

4 In passing, it may be noted that Article 47, paragraph 4, incorporates a proviso that the Security Council's Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of the Council “and after consultation with appropriate regional agencies, may establish regional subcommittees.” No such subcommittees have been created to date, nor does it seem likely that they will be so long as the Cold War continues to paralyze the Military Staff Committee. There is no impediment to the General Assembly Collective Measures Committee, authorized by the Uniting for Peace Resolutions, establishing a more or less comparable subcommittee if it sees fit to do so, but this does not appear to have become necessary or desirable as yet.

5 See Schaff, C. Hart, “The United Nations Commission for Asia and the Far East,” International Organization, 11, 1953Google Scholar; W. W. Rostow, “The Economic Commission for Europe,” ibid., May, 1949. See also factual summaries of ECOSOC, the U. N. regional economic commissions, and the various regional organizations appearing regularly in this journal.

6 See Ball, M. Margaret, “Bloc Voting in the General Assembly,” International Organization, 02 1951Google Scholar; G. M. Carter, “The Commonwealth in the United Nations,” ibid., May, 1950; Crocker, W. R., “Voting in the International Institations,” Australian Outlook, 09 1951Google Scholar; Dennett, Raymond, “Politics in the Security Council,” International Organization, 08 1949Google Scholar; Furniss, E. S., “The United States, the Inter-American System and the United Nations,” Political Science Quarterly, 09 1950Google Scholar; Howard, H. N., “The Arab-Asian States in the United Nations,” The Middle East Journal, Summer, 1953Google Scholar.