By the 1930s it was clear for some politicians and diplomats that the League of Nations had failed to become an international forum. To many it was tied to the post World War I revanchist settlement of Europe. Several nations in order to keep their colonial or territorial gains or political and economical hegemony formed regional blocs. Some authors, mainly within the ICSS, have described this arrangement of world affairs has a new imperialism. Cooperation does exist, specially after the Great Pacific War, between US (Pan-American Union) and FSR (ICSS) in maintaining the present status quo.