Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
When the Soviet Union withdrew recently from the World Health Organization, a somewhat startled world learned that even the prevention of disease can be affected by world politics. The most cursory study of international organizations for other purposes discloses that none is immune to world social and political forces. On the contrary, they are in varying degree shaped and influenced by these forces, and in fact serve as vehicles for their expression.
1 “World Health and World Politics” by Charles E. Allen will appear in a forthcoming issue or International Organization.
2 For text of the Court's opinion, see International Organization, III, p. 569–78.