Can’t remember exactly where, but a document cited in the previous comments discussed a dichotomy: inclusive vs exclusive. Treaties are exclusive and tied to territories which are the tripwires for terms of the treaty to be invoked. Inclusive organizations like the UN cannot possibly sustain treaties or nation states as such, but they provide soft mechanisms for [not] resolving conflict.

So NATO isn’t. That is, not a Treaty Organization, but rather yet another congerie of market forces bubbling merrily [or not].

Too bad we can’t develope an East European Treaty Organization, a Black Sea Treaty Organization and a Caspian Sea Treaty Organization. Each one functions with some degree of independence from The Bear and some degree of dependence on The USA.

Hmmm. Doesn’t sound too stable, does it?