This article is about an experimental subject configuration for the exploration of interdisciplinary relationships between organizations, problems, strategies, values and human development, from the Yearbook of International Organizations.

This text is an updated version of an article which first appeared in the Yearbook of International Organizations in 1978. That version was reproduced, with minor alterations, by permission of the publisher and editors of: International Organizations; A Conceptual Approach edited by P Taylor and A J M Groom (London, Frances Pinter, 1977; New York, Nichols Publishing Company, 1978).