Arab League - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation

Common Market, EC, EEC, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union, EU, Europe - an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe"

NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

OPcw, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - international organization for chemical disarmament; administers the Chemical Weapons Convention

OAS, Organization of American States - an association of countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation

OPEC, Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries - an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum

League of Nations - an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed

community - a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"

alignment, alinement, coalition, alliance - an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

UN, United Nations - an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security

commonwealth - a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

World Trade Organization, WTO - an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade