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Networking the International System

Global Histories of International Organizations

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Madeleine Herren

    1. Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  • Interference between Eurocentrism and global governance cover a blind spot in scholarly research
  • Non-Western international organizations cover an academic void
  • Historical reactions of international organizations to crises and war help us to understand their peacekeeping functions in the 21st century
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Organization

    • Madeleine Herren
    Pages 1-12

  6. Culture and Standardization: The Multifunctional and Contradictory Use of International Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Global Governance: From Organizations to Networks or Not?

      • Craig N. Murphy
      Pages 151-162

    3. New Capitalism, UNESCO, and the Re-enchantment of Culture

      • Timothy D. Taylor
      Pages 163-173

    4. Popular Culture and International Cooperation in the 1930s

      • Bjarne Rogan
      Pages 175-185

    5. Avenues and Confines of Globalizing the Past: UNESCO’s International Commission for a “Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind” (1952–1969)

      • Katja Naumann
      Pages 187-200

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 201-205
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The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns of analysis. Considering Asian and Western examples, the contributions originate from different disciplines and study areas and discuss a global approach, which has been a blind spot in scholarly research on international organizations until now. Using the 1930s as a historical reference, the contributions question role of international organizations during conflicts, war and crises, gaining insights into their function as peacekeeping forces in the 21st century. While chapter one discusses the historicity of international organizations and the availability of sources, the second chapter deliberates on Eurocentrism and science policy, considering the converging of newly created epistemic communities and old diplomatic elites. Chapter 3 sheds light on international organizations as platforms, expanding the field of research from the diversity of organizations to the patterns of global governance. The final chapter turns to the question of how international organizations invented and introduced new fields of action, pointing to the antithetic role of standardization, the preservation of cultural heritage and the difficulties in reaching a non-Western approach.

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  • Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Madeleine Herren

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