Editing World government (section)

==Examples of regional integration of states==
{{Main|Regional organization|Supranational union}}
There are a number of regional organizations that, while not supranational unions, have adopted or intend to adopt policies that may lead to a similar sort of integration in some respects. The [[European Union]] is generally recognized as the most integrated among these.<ref name="Bauböck-2007">{{cite journal |last=Bauböck |first=Rainer |date=2007 |title=Why European Citizenship? Normative Approaches to Supranational Union |url=http://www.bepress.com/til/default/vol8/iss2/art5 |url-status=dead |journal=[[Theoretical Inquiries in Law]] |publisher=[[Berkeley Electronic Press]] |volume=8 |issue=2, Article 5 |doi=10.2202/1565-3404.1157 |issn=1565-3404 |s2cid=32911981 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127190025/http://www.bepress.com/til/default/vol8/iss2/art5/ |archive-date=2010-01-27 |access-date=2009-08-01 |quote=A normative theory of supranational citizenship will necessarily be informed by the EU as the only present case and will be addressed to the EU in most of its prescriptions |hdl-access=free |hdl=1814/7314}}</ref>
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* [[African Union]] (AU)
* [[Arab League]]
* [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN)
* [[Caribbean Community]] (CARICOM)
* [[Central American Integration System]] (SICA)
* [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS)
* [[Commonwealth of Nations]] 
* [[Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf]] (CCASG)
* [[East African Community]] (EAC)
* [[Eurasian Economic Union]] (EAEU)
* [[European Union]] (EU)
* [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO)
* [[Organization of American States]] (OAS)
* [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation]] (SAARC)
* [[Turkic Council]] (TurkKon)
* [[Union of South American Nations]] (UNASUR)
* [[Union State]]
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Other organisations that have also discussed greater integration include:
* [[Arab League]] into an "[[Arab Union]]"
* [[Caribbean Community]] (CARICOM) into a "Caribbean Federation"
* [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) into a "[[North American Union]]"
* [[Pacific Islands Forum]] into a "[[Pacific Union]]"