The league of nations : perspectives from the present / edited by Haakon A. Ikonomou and Karen Gram-Skjoldager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ikonomou, Haakon A., editor.

Gram-Skjoldager, Karen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--History--20th century.

International relations.

League of Nations--History.

League of Nations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-edge research on the many ways the League of Nations shaped its times and continues to shape our contemporary world. A series of bite-size studies, divided into three thematic parts, investigates how the League affected the world around it and the lives of the people who became part of this 'first great experiment' in international organisation. Recent research has reinterpreted the League as a laboratory of global economic, political and humanitarian governance. Expanding on this, the volume aims to show that the League is an 'academic site', where international history - as a discipline - has re-invented itself by integrating new approaches from social, cultural and media history. With an introduction by Director-General Michael Moller of the United Nations Organisation in Geneva, this work is a timely reminder of the fragile, varied and enduring history of multilateralism, on the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Foreword (Michael Møller)

Introduction

The League of Nations- Perspectives from the Present (Haakon A. Ikonomou And Karen Gram-Skjoldager)

Bibliography

Part 1-Inside The League

The Men Behind the Man: Canvassing the Directorship of the League of Nations Secretariat (Torsten Kahlert And Karen Gram-Skjoldager)

Three Generations

The Directors in the Institutional Setup of the Secretariat

Founding Fathers - The Firs T Generation(1920-1927)

The Insiders - The Second Genera Tion(1928-1932)

The Third Generation (1933-1946)

Conclusion and Perspectives - Afterlives

Notes

An International Language: The Translation and Interpretation Service (Haakon A. Ikonomou)

So Much to Do!

Towards A Geneva Language

Translation and Interpretationas Heroic Internationalism

A New Diplomacy - The Symbolic Significance of Translation and Interpretation

Taming the Bureaucrats: The Supervisory Commission and Political Control of The Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager)

The Power of the Purse

The Supervisory Commission Andthe Institutional Balances of the League

The Supervisory Commissionand The Rise of the Small States

War And The Problem of Avenol

Between Montreal and Geneva

Conclusion and Perspectives- Preparing for Peace

Competing Internationalisms at The League of Nations Secretariat, 1933-1940 (Marco Moraes)

Before Avenol

Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General(1933-1940)

Apolitical Technocracy or Fascist Internationalism?

Conclusion

Gender Distribution in the League of Nations: The Start of A Revolution? (Myriam Piguet)

A Unique Step Towardsgender Equality

A Gap to be Uncovered.

The Bureaucratic Revolution that Favoured the Emergence of Women in International Administration

In Practice, Genderinequality Remained

The Gendered Division of Labour

A Question of Education

Part 2-The Leaguein Context

Naturism, The Permanent Mandates Commission, And the Denial of the Violent Nature of Colonialism (Florian Wagner)

The Pmc: A Civilisin G Institution

Using The Early League to Influencethe "International Talk"To Belgium's Advantage

Colonial Internationalismand The "Neutrality" of the Pmc

"Neutrality" as Solidarityamong Colonisers

Scandals And Reform Initiatives

Legitimising Colonialism through Reform

Israel Zangwill on Nationality and 'The League of Damnations' (Laura Almagor)

Israel Zangwill

'Nationality'

Two Men, One Brother

The League of Damnations

A Jewish Moral Vanguard

Conclusion: Against the Grain

The Untold Story of Eric Colban and the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (Mads Drange)

The Minority Sectionof the League of Nations

The Greco-Turkish Population exchange Agreement

Colban's Secret Diplomacy

Humanitarianism and Realpolitik

'He Used to Give Me Turkish Lessons in Constantinople': How to Get a Job in the League Secretariat (Haakon A. Ikonomou)

Moment of Flux

Thanassis Aghnides Gets A Job

The Lasting Significance of the First Employees

The Scandinavian Centre: Denmark and the Early Years of International Studies Under the League of Nations (Søren Friis)

The International Studies Conference and its Components

The Institute of Economics and History- Copenhagen and Beyond

An International Affair- Who, When And Where?.

Postscript: International Studies and the New Era

Neoliberals and the League of Nations: on The Incidental Birth of Neoliberalism Within the League's Dot-Connecting System

A Global Web

From Hamburg to Honolulu- To Christchurch

From Geneva to London- To Christchurch

The Incidental birth of Neoliberalism

The Landscape of The Lea Gue

A Fuller Knowledge of the Facts': The League of Nations' Endeavours to Produce International Expertise (Quincy Cloet)

Unfinished Dream, Underexplored Subject

Knowledge Production and Inquiry Commissions

Putting Together an Inquiry Commission

How to Find the Facts

Inquiry: What Is It Good For?

International Legacy

Beyond the Formula of the Age of Reason: Experts, Social Sciences, And the Phonic Public in International Politics (Tomoko Akami)

Problem 1

Problem 2

And Beyond the Formula of the Age of the Reason

Bandung Revisited: from Rural Hygiene to Primary Health Care (Niels Brimnes)

The League of Nations' Conferenceon Rural Hygiene

The Alma-Ata Conferenceand the Principles behind Primary Health Care

From Bandung to Alma-Ata

Remembering Bandung 1937

The Legacy of the League

Part 3- The League: Projections And Presence

From the Gallery to The Floor: The League of Nations and the Combating of 'False Information' (Emil Eiby Seidenfaden)

The Information Section

The International Conferences of Press Experts

Moral Disarmament

The Greater League of Nations

Film-Splaining the League of Nations (Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Nikolai Schulz and Emil Eiby Seidenfaden)

League Films and the Purpose of the League at Work

"Judge it for Yourselves".

A Smooth-Running, Fair, Efficient and Abstemious Machine

What we are not Told

Aesthetics and the Use of Cut Away Scenesto Loosen Up the League

The Scene That Will Give You Goosebumps

Murder, Intrigue, Sex and Internationalism: Novels about the League of Nations (Benjamin Auberer)

The Death of A Diplomat- International Civil Servants as Authors

Mystery at Geneva: Novels About the League of Nations

Grand Days: League Novels After the League

Imagining the League of Nations: Cartoons as A Prism for Perceptions of International Politics and Organisations

An Insightful Source

Narratives from the 1920s:A New Actress on the International Stage

A League Under Fire:Crisis and Failure in the 1930s

Squabbling Diplomats Andapathetic Technocrats

A League in Despair:French and German Perspectivesin France, The Unravelling of the Versailles Order Caused Security

Small Stateand Idealist Perceptions

'A Great Experiment': Professional Self-Perceptions and Working Conditions in the Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager)

Bureaucratic Adventurers

Dr. Léon Weber-Bauler's Report

A Tour of Palais Wilson

From Palais Wilsonto the Palais Des Nations

A Modernist in Geneva: Le Corbusier and the Competition for the Palais des Nations (Marco Ninno)

The Importance of Semantics

The Case of Le Corbusier

The New Project for the Arian A Parkand the Alleged Plagiarism

Conclusion: Le Corbusier's 'Revenge'

'The League is Dead, Long Live The United Nations': The Liquidation of the League and the Transfer of Assets to the UN (Torsten Kahlert)

Dissolution and Liquidation

Disrespect and Dignity

The League on Both Sides.

Conclusion

Concluding Essay

'A Living Thing is Born': The League of Nations and The Contemporary World (Patrick Finney)

Photo Credits

Colophon.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788771848380

877184838X

OCLC:

1316696314