Other strategies created in this manner were also found to be duplicates of existing strategies. In these cases the contents of both entries were combined, including the problem cross-references. It has been the continuing ambition of the UIA's programme to specifically cross-relate international organizations with strategies they are concerned with. Achieving this in a systematic manner continues to be beyond the available editorial resources. A principal reason for the overwhelming dimensions of such an exercise is the need to scrupulously investigate the documents of international bodies.
Some strategies are evident only by allusion or by reading between the lines.
On the other hand, many international organizations claim to be concerned with the more fashionable strategies. A basic issue is whether such links should be made from the organization to broader strategies or also to narrower strategies. 4,659 bibliographic cross-references in this strategies database at the time of printing. It should be noted in relation to bibliographic cross-references that they are not citations in the conventional sense. Although statements used in building up strategy descriptions are, in almost every case, very closely based on existing published documents, no explicit link is shown between the statements and their source documents.