FREDERICK K. LISTER is a retired UN official, with 34 years of service in the United Nations Secretariat. He was long involved in coordinating the many interlocking activities of the UN and its numerous specialized agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the World Bank. He has since been involved in research on international co-operation as a senior research fellow of the Ralph Bunch Institute of the City University of New York. Among his earlier publications are The European Union, The United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance (Greenwood Press, 1996) and the companion volume The Early Security Conferations: From Ancient Greece to the United Colonies of New England (Greenwood Press, 1999).

• Preface Confederal Governance in States of Greatly Varying Size and Power The Confederation of the United States The "New" Swiss Confederation The German Confederation Summing Up the Theory and Practice of Security Confederations Index

FREDERICK K. LISTER is a retired UN official, with 34 years of service in the United Nations Secretariat. He was long involved in coordinating the many interlocking activities of the UN and its numerous specialized agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the World Bank. He has since been involved in research on international co-operation as a senior research fellow of the Ralph Bunch Institute of the City University of New York. Among his earlier publications are The European Union, The United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance (Greenwood Press, 1996) and the companion volume The Early Security Conferations: From Ancient Greece to the United Colonies of New England (Greenwood Press, 1999).

• Preface Confederal Governance in States of Greatly Varying Size and Power The Confederation of the United States The "New" Swiss Confederation The German Confederation Summing Up the Theory and Practice of Security Confederations Index

FREDERICK K. LISTER is a retired UN official, with 34 years of service in the United Nations Secretariat. He was long involved in coordinating the many interlocking activities of the UN and its numerous specialized agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the World Bank. He has since been involved in research on international co-operation as a senior research fellow of the Ralph Bunch Institute of the City University of New York. Among his earlier publications are The European Union, The United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance (Greenwood Press, 1996) and the companion volume The Early Security Conferations: From Ancient Greece to the United Colonies of New England (Greenwood Press, 1999).

• Preface Confederal Governance in States of Greatly Varying Size and Power The Confederation of the United States The "New" Swiss Confederation The German Confederation Summing Up the Theory and Practice of Security Confederations Index