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Volume LIX] M
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN A WORLD
OF SOVEREIGN STATES
HE structure and functions of international organs, to
which some responsibility in one or another sector of
post-war economic policy might be entrusted, have,
as is fitting at the present stage of the war, a prominent
place in current popular and official discussions of post-war
problems. Mere expressions of platonic approval of new
techniques and new institutional inventions do not, however,
carry us very far, and a more concrete picture of what might
be possible in the real world of today and tomorrow is there-
fore needed.
If we assume that national states will happily hand over to.
an international authority substantial responsibility for some of
their more difficult problems, the elaboration of blueprints for
a world order is easy enough; but any such assumptions would
be unrealistic. There is no reason for regarding national
sovereignty as sacrosanct, under no circumstances ever to be
questioned; on the contrary, it can never be sufficiently empha-
sized that for even the most powerful states experience has
shown the independence which many are so eager to main-
tain unimpaired to be an illusion. Today no single state,
whether belligerent or neutral, is engaged in activities in any
way resembling what it would freely have chosen for itself;
those who a few years ago believed that they could freely make
their own decisions for themselves should now know better.
Nevertheless even the clearest understanding of this fact is an
inadequate guide for showing what we can actually hope to do
about it. Many of those who today talk about the limitation of
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