World Institutions
The United Kingdom of America is one state among many, and much of its conduct abroad runs through institutions it does not control. This domain covers the international organisations of the world: the bodies that register treaties, mediate disputes, authorise force, judge states, coordinate health and disaster relief, and supply the ordinary machinery of cooperation between sovereigns. It also holds the shared or unusual institutions of other realms, where those are better explained on their own than inside a country article.
The distinction from Institutions & Government is one of ownership rather than importance. That domain holds the Realm’s own machinery: Parliament, the courts, the Crown, the armed forces. This one holds the machinery the Realm shares with, or submits to, everyone else.
How it’s organised
- Universal organisations: bodies open in principle to every recognised sovereign state, with general responsibilities across peace, law, and cooperation.
- Regional and supranational unions: deeper arrangements among smaller groups of states, held here where the union is an institution its members belong to, and in Nations of the World where it is inseparable from the states composing it. The European Concert sits here; the Scandinavian Union and the Benelux Union sit there.
- Shared institutions of other realms: executives, courts, and offices belonging to foreign states rather than to the Realm, where they merit separate treatment.
The articles
- League of Nations, The universal organisation, founded in 1920 and never dissolved; reconstructed by the San Francisco Charter of 1945 as its Second Covenant. Headquarters at Geneva, the General Assembly at San Francisco, the Security Council at Kyoto, and the International Court of Justice at Amsterdam. There is no United Nations.
- European Concert, The world’s deep supranational union of the European order, founded at Straßburg in 2027 to lower great-power tension as the cold war faded; the youngest and least proven of the great institutions
- Dual Executive of the Kingdom of Ireland, The shared executive of the Irish Crown realm, in which a President and a Crown representative divide the functions a single head of state holds elsewhere.
Still to come: the League’s specialist agencies, the international courts in their own right, and the older treaty systems that preceded 1920.
Adjacent: Nations of the World · Institutions & Government · Law & the Charter
Every article in this domain
Every article in the domain, generated from the articles themselves.
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- League of Nations The universal organisation, founded in 1920 and never dissolved; reconstituted by the San Francisco Charter of 1945 as its Second Covenant. Headquarters at Geneva, the General Assembly at San Francisco, the League Council at Constantinople, the Security Council at Kyoto, and the International Court of Justice at Amsterdam. There is no United Nations
- European Concert The youngest of the great institutions: seventeen seats bound at Straßburg in 2027 into a parliament, a commission, a court and a common market, built to manage a victorious Germany and still waiting for its first real test
- Atlantic Treaty Organization The alliance of the Atlantic, founded at Brussels in 1949, whose guarantee is automatic and has never once been invoked, and whose antagonist is dissolving
- Commonwealth of Nations An association of equals containing a superpower, its former ruler and thirty small states, which works because it can decide nothing
- Indochinese Union An economic union of one communist republic and two kingdoms, which works because it believes in nothing and touches no member's politics
- The World Economy Two league tables that disagree, a reserve currency that belongs to one realm, and a world of about 8.4 billion people producing about A£160 trillion a year by value