The emergence of globalism : visions of world order in Britain and the United States 1939-1950 / Or Rosenboim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenboim, Or, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--History.

Globalization.

History.

Globalization--Philosophy.

International relations--History.

International relations.

Physical Description:

vii, 338 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term 'globalization,' they identified a shift toward technological, economic, cultural, and political interconnectedness and developed a 'globalist' ideology to reflect this new postwar reality. The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates and led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept. Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought, Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war and expatriation in the 1940s and how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy, geopolitics, economics, imperial thought, constitutional law, theology, and philosophy of science. She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron, Owen Lattimore, Lionel Robbins, Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Curtis, Richard McKeon, Michael Polanyi, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. G. Wells, and others. Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand and an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: A New Global Order 1

Drawing the Contours of Globalism 6

The Mid-century Discourse of Globalism 10

The Ideologues of Globalism 15

Outline of the Book 19

Chapter 2 Reimagining the State in a Global Space 24

The Intellectual Worlds of Raymond Aron and David Mitrany 25

Critique of Ideology and Nationalism 29

The State and a New World Order 38

Europe, United and Divided 46

E. H. Carr and Political Order in the Global Age 51

Chapter 3 Geopolitics and Regional Order 56

Owen Lattimore, Nicholas J. Spykman, and the Science of Geopolitics 57

Isaiah Bowman, Karl Haushofer, and Geopolitics in Transition 61

Lattimore and Spykman on Land, Sea, and Air Power 67

The Geopolitics of Scale 78

After Frederick Jackson Turner: The Frontier in International Relations 81

Tripolarity 86

The Geopolitics of Regional Democracy 92

Geopolitics and the Post-war Political Space 97

Chapter 4 The End of Imperial Federalism? 100

Federal Union: Lobbying for a Democratic Federation 103

Lionel Curtis's Sermon on the Mount 107

Clarence Streit: 'We Need Union Now' 114

Frederick Lugard, Norman Bentwich, and the Boundaries of the Commonwealth 121

Chapter 5 Federal Democracy for Welfare 130

Lionel Robbins and the Politics of Economic Federalism 132

Barbara Wootton's Democratic Plan for Freedom 142

Friedrich Hayek and the Challenge of Liberal Federalism 157

The Emancipatory Hope of Democratic Federalism 165

Chapter 6 Writing a World Constitution: The Chicago Committee and the New World Order 168

Richard McKeon, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and the Establishment of the Chicago Committee 170

The Unity and Division of Sovereignty 177

The Problem of Representation 180

Decolonising the Non-West 185

Pluralism and Human Rights 189

The Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution 194

Hans Kelsen and the Critics of the Constitution 201

The Limits of Constitutionalism 205

Chapter 7 Perceptions of Science and Global Order 209

World Government or World Destruction: H. G. Wells Responds to the Crisis 212

Charles E. Merriam, Scientific Objectivity, and Political Judgment 216

Michael Polanyi and the Liberal Dynamic Order 223

Lewis Mumford's Remedy to Global Madness 234

A Turn to Faith 238

Chapter 8 Catholicism, Pluralism, and Global Democracy 241

Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and Democracy in Exile 244

Political Pluralism and the Challenge of Order 252

Maritain, Sturzo, and Aron Propose Federalism Against Machiavellianism 258

Global Democracy and Catholic Morality 263

Global 'Pluralism(s) of Fear' 268

Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Genealogy of Globalism 272

The Public Role of Intellectuals 276

The Globalist Ideology and the Globalised Future 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-323) and index.

ISBN:

9780691168722

0691168725

OCLC:

958799693