AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS ON EMERGENCE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

It is generally stated that the initial forms of international organizations [hereinafter IOs] can be traced back to the 19th century, and IOs actually get on the stage after the World War II [hereinafter WW II]. This statement causes to raise some questions such as ''Why there were no IOs existed before the 19th century?'' or ''Why the WW II is a landmark in the history of IOs?''. Some scholars answer these questions by listing several reasons mainly regarding to sovereignty, transaction costs, the cataclysm of WW II, and the like. However, this paper claims that these answers are not persuasive and it is possible to develop a more persuasive alternative analysis that is based on historical facts and derived from main approach of General Public Law discipline. Therefore, this paper has a two-tiered argument. First, it tries to refute the abovementioned answers. Second, it tries to establish a more persuasive alternative analysis. This alternative analysis depends on classifying IOs into two groups as technical IOs [hereinafter TIOs] and non-technical IOs [hereinafter NTIOs], and claims that they are emerged depending on different reasons: Existence of TIOs depends on necessities of technical developments, whereas existence of NTIOs depends on the American governmental understanding, and hegemony.