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The Commonwealth and the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Geoffrey L. Goodwin
Geoffrey L. Goodwin
Affiliation:
Professor of Political Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Extract

The British Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations have today at least one thing in common, namely, that each faces a crisis so serious as to threaten its very survival. Nor are the reasons for the crises so very different. In part they stem from the nature of the two institutions. Both are associations of sovereign states, each one of which views the Commonwealth or United Nations relationship as only one strand–and only rarely the most important strand–in a complex and variegated web of relationships.

Type
III. The United Nations and Its Members
Information
International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965 , pp. 678 - 694
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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