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Our examination of the structure of the Commonwealth stressed the de-Britannicising of the association. As the CHOGMs met in different centres and the Secretariat became a truly international body opening relationships with its equivalents around the world, the Secretaries-General stressed more and more the global environment of their activities. We have seen, too, how the issues of race, inequality, security and the special needs of small states all involved a globalising of Commonwealth concerns. However, when we come to the functioning of the Commonwealth we find that at both governmental and at the voluntary, private and unofficial levels the most noticeable feature from the 1970s were growing regional emphases.
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McIntyre, W.D. (1991). Regional Emphases. In: The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965–90. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377103_10
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