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The Institution of International Order - From the League of Nations to the United Nations (Paperback)
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The Institution of International Order - From the League of Nations to the United Nations (Paperback)
Series: 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 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.
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