ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how the instruments of structural power are forged and put to use through the European Community. Traditionally peace in the sense of absentia belli has been built at the expense of the burden of an arms race and the threat that a precarious balance of power may no longer function. With the progressive change of the European Community towards a super-state these organizations will no longer be ‘international’ but simply ordinary EC organizations, and that will reduce the number of ‘international’ organizations within the EC. A part of the high number of headquarters of IGOs and INGOs in the EC can be seen as a sign that the European Community is weak rather than strong.
