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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed during the Baghdad Conference on September 10-14, 1960. It was founded by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. It was formed in order to regulate the sale of oil throughout the world and unify petroleum policies among member countries.
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Members
OPEC consists of twelve current members: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. In addition, Indonesia and Gabon are both former members of the organization.

History {opec-hi.jpg} OPEC Flag
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed during the Baghdad Conference on September 10-14, 1960. It was founded by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. It was formed in order to regulate the sale of oil throughout the world and unify petroleum policies among member countries.
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Members
OPEC consists of twelve current members: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. In addition, Indonesia and Gabon are both former members of the organization.

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Members
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994 and by 2010 it was recognized as the biggest trade bloc in the world.
Members
The United States, Canada, and Mexico
Objectives
NAFTA is designed to promote free trade throughout North America, and also at the same time regulate goods to make the three countries safer, healthier, and more efficient. The free trade makes goods available quicker and opens up plenty of opportunities for all three countries. NAFTA makes getting certain products that cannot be grown or made in some parts of America easier by allowing them to be transported freely.
Structure
Increases trade by eliminating tariffs, promotes industry growth, especially in Mexico, and creates environmental protection standards among three of the most industrial and powerful countries in the world.
Membership Advantages/ Disadvantages
Advantages- no tariffs, increase economically, and industrially, also helps Canada and Mexico gain benefits from the United States and make them stronger as there are only three members that are subject to these special trading rules.
Disadvantages- Many American jobs are being moved to Mexico, where labor is cheaper, which is angering a lot of Americans, the cheap labor is good as it brings in money, but it is keeping many Americans unemployed.
Effect on Local Diversity
NAFTA raised the demand for factory workers and lowered the demand for local farmers, as their products were not needed anymore. This caused many people to get jobs at a large factory and abandon what they had done for most of their lives.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. There are 28 member countries and many other countries that partner up with NATO.
Members
There are 22 member countries in NATO, for a full list of all 28 countries visit this site:
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-8359B0E1-19875538/natolive/nato_countries.htm
Objectives
Increase awareness of the role, organization and activities of NATO in the defense of shared democratic values;
Highlight the major military-security and political issues facing NATO Member States;
Generate understanding of the capabilities and constraints that shape the policies of NATO Member States in matters of collective defense;
Demonstrate patterns of cooperation and conflict that characterize intra-NATO diplomacy;
Highlight recent changes affecting NATO’s security policies;
Demonstrate the need for effective diplomatic, economic, and military cooperative action in an unfolding crisis situation.
Structure
NATO's structure is divided between three groups. There is the Civilian Structure, Military Structure, and Organizations and Agencies. For a complete view of the divisions and subdivisions in these three structures, visit the NATO website at:
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/structure.htm
Membership Advantages/ Disadvantages
Advantages- military protection on air, ground, and sea; less money is needed to be spent on personal military because other countries back you up.
Disadvantages- higher MDC's and more powerful countries (USA) have more say in matters and control the smaller countries and the smaller countries depend on the MDC's military. Also if one member is attacked,. all members must provide support to the nation that has been attacked, which can be a real hassle and use a lot of troops and money.
Effect on Local Diversity
Being a military based group, NATO really has no effect on local diversity. It actually may promote it and help it grow because in a sense, every country that provides a military is helping protect the other countries liberty and diversity.

The European Union is a geo-political entity covering a large portion of the European continent. It is founded upon numerous treaties and has undergone expansions that have taken it from 6 member states to 27, a majority of states in Europe.
Members
Yellow- Member
Blue- Applied for membership
Grey- Not a member
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Objectives

Disadvantages- instability, loss of sovereignty, lower countries, such as Greece bring economy down.
Effect on Local Diversity
The use of the Euro as currency for the members of this Union has had a great effect on local diversity. rather than use currency that dates back many years, countries are forced to use the Euro, which simplifies things, but also takes out the traits that make a country diverse.