1 avr. 1974 - "...an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal" The Hard Road to World Order by Richard N. Gardner Foriegn Affairs Magazine April 1974

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"In short, the "house of world order" will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great "booming, buzzing confusion," to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault. Of course, for political as well as administrative reasons, some of these specialized arrangements should be brought into an appropriate relationship with the central institutions of the U.N. system, but the main thing is that the essential functions be performed. The question is whether this more modest approach."