By Bola A. Akinterinwa
The Principle of Subsidiarity (PoS) is of multidisciplinary application in international relations. Its importance is largely explained by the fact that it deals essentially with the regulation of power and its exercise in the maintenance of international peace and security, which is the primary objective and rationale for the establishment of the United Nations Organisation in 1945. It is about the determination of who should have authority and how the authority should be exercised in a given situation or region in ensuring peace and security.
The understanding of the principle varies from one stratum of society to another and from one discipline to the other, but the denominating factor remains common. Its origin is traceable to Catholicism, the 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum by Pope Leo XIII, who attempted ‘to articulate a middle course between laisser-faire capitalism, on the one hand, and the various forms of socialism, which subordinate the individual
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