Reflections on the 200 years of the history of international organisations

Abstract

International organisations (IOs) are probably the single most important
achievement in the history of the international community. IOs should be seen
as the most developed form of organizing it on the basis of equality, fairness
and perpetuity. IOs are a relatively new development. Even though (what
we now call) international relations have been present for several thousands
of years, the concept of international institutions and, more generally, IOs,
emerged only 200 years ago.