ПРЕТЕЧЕ САВРЕМЕНИХ МЕЂУНАРОДНИХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЈА
FORERUNNERS OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The functioning of modern international relations today is practically unthinkable without the action of international organizations. They represent the most significant subjects of public international law after states. As bearers of international legal subjectivity, they play a significant role in the construction of the global world order. Whether they are of universal or regional type, there are more and more of them, and states united in this form of functioning more easily realize their political, strategic, geopolitical, economic and other interests. Europe is the cradle of international organizations. The existence of this form of cooperation between states began immediately after the end of Napoleon’s wars of conquest on the old continent for the purpose of „the search for world peace“. Precisely for this reason, the author dedicated the paper to the forerunners of contemporary (governmental)international organizations, that is, to those forms of association of states that foreshadowed the creation of the international organizations we know today. Attention will be devoted to large international congresses as the first forerunners (Congresses of Münster and Osnabrück, Congress of Vienna, etc.), then river commissions (for Elbe, Rhine, Danube, etc.) and so-called administrative unions. Today, the United Nations represent the most important universal international organization in the world, and accordingly, the author refers to the League of Nations as its predecessor. International organizations represent a continuous process of association of states, and the modern world would not be the way it is without them. They are rightfully a „phenomenon of modern times“.

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