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The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations (Routledge Studies in Modern History)

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This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focal point at 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 may be planetary in scale but also pioneeringly multi-local. Our central argument is that despite the fact that 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 at the production of norms, the second one at the development of expertise and the third at 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. Every 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 regularly 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 will have to be understood to have played an active role, not just in mediating a world of empires and then one in all nation-states, but in forging the many principles and tenets by which international society is structured.


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