REGIONALISM AND PERMANENT PEACE.

The article focuses on regionalism and permanent peace. Regional theory offers a practical means whereby the peace may be made both just and permanent. That, in the fewest possible words, is the thesis this paper will attempt to support. However, that regional principles may be used to achieve a just and permanent peace only if they are implemented by men of detailed knowledge and broad understanding from such fields as anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology working in closest collaboration with statesmen who are more interested in setting up a stable world organization than in securing immediate advantages for their own particular classes, races, or nations. Regionalism as it has evolved through the contributions of many scholars from many fields, holds that security can be achieved only through order and that order is attained only through recognizing regions of whatever size and for whatever purpose as being parts of integrated wholes. But regional theory also stresses the strength to be attained through diversity and therefore emphasizes the minimal nature of the restrictions to be imposed by the whole.