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The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis
from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the
organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American
relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this
event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation
interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the
various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American
considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals
how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles
about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would
be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground
for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent
African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created
by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo,
while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjoeld tried to reconcile
these two contrasting views. -- .
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.
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.
Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of
international relations, this book provides an innovative
interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalizing
framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond
the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as
competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide
range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead
dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which
a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and
partake in regionalization processes and have done so through the
centuries.
The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis
from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the
organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American
relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this
event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation
interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the
various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American
considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals
how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles
about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would
be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground
for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent
African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created
by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo,
while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjoeld tried to reconcile
these two contrasting views. -- .
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