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The legal basis of regional organizations is provided by the UN Charter. The Charter, which prohibits threat and use of force in its Article 2/4, permits States to defend themselves against an armed attack individually or collectively (Article 51).

Article 52, which is the true legal basis of regional security organizations, allows States to establish “regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with” regional and international peace and security, provided that they are “consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations”.

Chapter VIII (Articles 52-54) of the UN Charter provides the legal basis for regional military alliances.

BRICS means five States (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), not Belgium.

As the idea of regional economic organization is going through a re-organization, economic co-operation is transforming into economic co-production.

The two best known and most quoted theories of international politics are realism and liberalism.

Liberals (idealists, rationalists) suggest that States are not (potential) enemies
but (potential) partners, as they basically stand for providing welfare and peace to their respective citizens.

Realism argues that organizations are a result of States’ seek of security.

All organizations basically have three main bodies: Secretariat, plenary assemble and specially authorised body.

Secretariat is the body that in fact both supplies and represents the legal personality of the organization. It is the only body that is not composed of the representatives of the member States but rather employs officers working for, and accountable to, the organization itself.