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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
On June 15, 1964, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development adopted its Final Act. General Principle 10 of this Act contains the following recommendation: “Regional economic groupings, integration or other forms of economic co-operation should be promoted among developing countries as a means of expanding their intra-regional and extra-regional trade and encouraging their economic growth and their industrial and agricultural diversification."1 The Act expresses the discontent of the developing nations with the existing state of affairs and their readiness to experiment with new forms of regional economic cooperation.
1 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Final Act, Doc. E/Conf. 46/L. 28 (16 June 1964), 19.
2 For the most up-to-date review of the main issues at stake, see Dell, Sidney, Trade Blocs and Common Markets (London 1963)Google Scholar.
3 See, e.g., Deutsch, Karl W.et al., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (Princeton 1957)Google Scholar; Haas, Ernst B., The Uniting of Europe (Stanford 1958)Google Scholar.
4 For an excellent conceptual framework, see Jacob, Philip E. and Toscano, James V., eds., The Integration of Political Communities (Philadelphia 1964), 14Google Scholar.
5 See Pickles, William, Not with Europe: The Political Case for Staying Out (London 1962)Google Scholar; Barratt-Brown, Michael and Hughes, John, Britain's Crisis and the Common Market (London 1961)Google Scholar. For a more moderate statement, see Strauss, Emil, European Reckoning: The Six and Britain's Future (London 1962)Google Scholar.
6 See Jacob and Toscano, eds., 11.
7 “Introduction to the Action Program for the Period 1964–1968,” Bulletin from the European Community (Brussels, December 1962), 1Google Scholar.
8 See Piero Malvestiti, “Enterprise and the Common Market,” in ibid. (September 1959). 5.
9 See European Economic Community, Decision on the Grundig-Consten Agreement, Doc. IP (64) 149 (25 September 1964), 1–3.
10 For the best analysis of this dispute, see Streeten, Paul, Economic Integration: Aspects and Problems (Leyden 1961)Google Scholar.
11 See Resolutions adopted at the Fourth General Assembly of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Paris, March 1964Google Scholar.
12 H. Buiter, , Secretary-General of the European Trade-Union Secretariat, Letters to the EEC Commission and Council of Ministers, European Community (May 1964)Google Scholar, 15–13
13 For a good discussion of this problem, see Dell, 75–83.
14 The studies by Ernst Haas of the functional bases of integration in Western Europe are a good example of what can be done in this direction.
15 See Jacob and Toscano, eds., 160.
16 See, e.g., Economic Commission for Africa, Doc. E/CN.14/253 (6 December 1963) and Doc. E/CN.14/284 (21 February 1964).
17 A statement to this effect was made by the EEC observer at the second session of the ECA Standing Committee on Trade (see E/CN.14/STC/33, para. 25).
18 Memorandum of the Commission on the Action Program of the Community for the Second Stage (Brussels, December 1962), 72.
19 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Final Act, Doc. E/Conf. 46/L.28 (16 June 1964), 18–19.
20 Hoffman, Stanley, “Discord in Community: The North Atlantic Area as a Partial International System,” International Organization (Summer 1963), 530Google Scholar.
