Nevertheless, notwithstanding the previous decision of the International Law Commission on the matter, some Commission members were once again specifically opposed to the use of that term, owing to its objectivistic connotation and lack of neutrality.

In the sociological (“objectivist”) theory of international law presented by Georges Scelle, for example, regionalism appears as an incident of what he called the “federal phenomenon”, a process leading from the individual State to larger normative units gradually and in successive stages as a result of expanding circles of “solidarity”.