International Organization §

• International organizations are a permanent body for conferences for multilateral diplomacy

Advantages of permanency of IOs §

• Why does conferences need to be permanent?
• Permanent problems are dealt with
  • World security and peace for League of Nations and the United Nations
  • Keep the problem under constant monitoring
• Unlikely to meet countries can join frequent meetings of many different nations allow build up of cooperative relations
• Better structure -> More effective solutions
  • Clear rules of procedures
  • Existing laws & charters
  • Accumulative process and momentum
  • Better existing follow up mechanisms

Disadvantages of permanent organization §

• Fixes structure since creation of the IO
  • Fixed status/power level: P5, UNSC
  • Fixed procedures & rules

Organization of IOs §

• IOs have institutions or charters that specifies its
  • Structure
  • Aims
  • Rules of procedures
• It must have
  • A governing body: like the UNSC and UNGA
  • A permanent secretariat
  • A permanent headquarters

Criteria of an International Organization ¹ §

1. Must be created by a treaty/agreement (UN Charter, ASEAN Charter)
2. Must have states as members
3. Must be regulated by International Law (follow int’ laws)
4. Endowed with legal personality
   • Legal Personality: to have all the rights & duties to perform under international law.
   • Creating conventions, agreements, with same rights as states

• Cases of IOs
  • ASEAN
  • UN

References §

Footnotes §

1. Chapter 3 International Personality of IS304’s textbook ↩