Foreword: Internationalism and empire : the question of "native labour" in the Portuguese Empire (1919-1962) / Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo and Jose Pedro Monteiro. Rocking on its hinges? : the League of Nations, the United Nations and the new history of internationalism in the twentieth century / Simon Jackson and Alanna O'Malley -- "He tampers with the source of life itself who tampers with freedom" : personhood, the state, and the international community in the thought of Charles Malik / Andrew Arsan -- From the Tigris to the Amazon : peripheral expertise, impossible cooperation and economic multilateralism at the League of Nations, 1920-1946 / Jose Antonio Sanchez Roman -- Pan-American exceptionalism : regional international law as a challenge to international institutions / Mats Ingulstad and Lucas Lixinski -- Jewish memory and the human right to petition, 1933-1953 / Nathan A. Kurtz -- The power of refugees : the 1971 East Pakistan crisis and the origins of the UN's engagement with humanitarian aid / Florian Hanning -- "Women's point of view was apt to be forgotten" : the Liaison Committee of International Women's Organizations' campaign for an International Women's Convention, 1920-1953 / Nova Robinson -- The League of Nations and the transformation of representation : sectarianism, consociationalism, and the Middle East / Sarah Shields -- Reimagining the post-war international order : the world of federalism of Ozaki Yukio and Kagawa Toyohiko / Konrad M. Lawson -- Internationalism and empire : the question of "native labour" in the Portuguese Empire (1919-1962) / Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo and Jose Pedro Monteiro.
Summary:
This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focus on the period from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the nation-state ascended to global hegemony as a political formation. Combining global, regional and local scaes of analysis, the essays presented here provide an interpretation of the two institutions ― and their complex interrelationship ― that is planetary in scale but also pioneeringly multi-local. Our central argument is that although the League and the UN shaped internationalism from the centre, they were themselves moulded just as powerfully by internationalisms that welled up globally, far beyond Geneva and New York City. The contributions are organised into three broad thematic sections, the first focused on the production of norms, the second on the development of expertise and the third on the global re-ordering of empire. By showing how the ruptures and continuities between the two international organisations have shaped the content and format of what we now refer to as ‘global governance’, the collection determinedly sets the Cold War and the emergence of the Third World into a single analytical frame alongside the crisis of empire after World War One and the geopolitics of the Great Depression. Each of these essays reveals how the League of Nations and the United Nations provided a global platform for formalising and proliferating political ideas and how the two institutions generated new spectrums of negotiation and dissidence and re-codified norms. As an ensemble, the book shows how the League of Nations and the United Nations constructed and progressively re-fashioned the basic building blocks of international society right across the twentieth century. Developing the new international history’s view of the League and UN as dynamic, complex forces, the book demonstrates that both organisations should be understood to have played an active role, not just in mediating a world of empires and then one of nation-states, but in forging the many principles and tenets by which international society is structured.-- Provided by Publisher.
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