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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the relations
between US philanthropic foundations (in particular the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and
the League of Nations. Generations of students and scholars have
learned that the US, having played a key role in the creation of
the League of Nations in 1919, did not join the organization and
stood aloof from its activities during the whole interwar period.
This book questions this idea and argues that, even though the US
was not a de jure member of the League of Nations, the financial,
human, and intellectual investment of foundations brought about the
de facto integration of the US within the League system and also
modified the latter’s architecture. The book describes the
Americanization of the League and shows how it resulted from three
strategies pursued throughout the interwar period: that of US
foundations, that of the Secretariat, and that of the US federal
government. The book also shows the limits of this Americanization
and analyzes the role of the European experts in the coproduction
of the postwar international order together with the US government.
This book will be of interest to historians and political
scientists, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in
interdisciplinary programs of international relations.
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning
have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth
century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that
received focused attention from nation-states, empires and
international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a
wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the
scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the
globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically
reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential
contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the
formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning
have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth
century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that
received focused attention from nation-states, empires and
international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a
wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the
scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the
globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically
reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential
contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the
formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
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