ABSTRACT
For David Mitrany, the search for the most appropriate parameters of any international organisation should be driven by a single principle-form follows function: ‘The essential principle is that activities would be selected specifically and organized separately-each according to its nature, to the conditions under which it has to operate, and to the needs of the moment’ (Mitrany 1966, 70). The parties involved, the way in which the organisation functions and even the lifetime of the institutional arrangement should be defined solely by technical
*Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. <Shaun. Breslin@warwick.ac.uk> Jeffrey D. Wilson is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University.
