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The UN/Regional Interface

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As regional intergovernmental organizations grow, they acquire the confidence and stature needed to assume broader functions of complementarity and partnership. A key goal is to improve collaboration when managing independent but related activities.1 Interaction with the UN can facilitate institutional development of regional bodies, enhance rule creation and its supervision, broaden scope to discharge humanitarian functions, and strengthen political cooperation. Notwithstanding disputes over responsibilities or divergent expectations of advantage, UN Charter Chapter VIII provisions retain pertinence in calling for ‘efforts to settle local disputes regionally before referring them to the Security Council, and also for the United Nations to encourage the growth and help build the capacities of regional bodies’.2

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    Roderic Alley (Senior Lecturer in Politics)

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Alley, R. (1998). The UN/Regional Interface. In: The United Nations in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26825-2_8

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