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Abstract
The emergence and constitution of international organizations represents an evolution of the diplomatic method by which the latter system adjusts itself to the need for quasi‐permanent multilateral negotiation on the great variety of problems requiring international action, for which the traditional methods of diplomacy are inadequate.
The difficulties encountered by the United Nations in its attempts to get general agreement on a world‐wide basis for various projects led to the realization that the state of economic, social, and cultural development of so many countries was so different as to make a common approach impossible of achievement. The heterogeneous character of the various civilizations has produced irreconcilable diferences of policy.
The idea of universalism has waned, and that of regionalism has developed. The comparative failure of the former has given the latter its opportunity.
Theoretically the chances of an organized regional economic organization coming about in Southern Africa is very good. In practice this is not so.