Placing Internationalism International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World

Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated process through international conferences, this edited collection studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society institutions and anti-colonial political networks used these events to realise their visions of the international.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, contributors explore the spatial paradox of two fundamental features of modern internationalism. First, internationalism demanded the overcoming of space, transcending the nation-state in search of the shared interests of humankind. Second, internationalism was geographically contingent on the places in which people came together to conceive and enact their internationalist ideas. From Paris 1919 to Bandung 1955 and beyond, this book explores international conferences as the sites in which different forms of internationalism assumed material and social form. While international ''permanent institutions'' such as the League of Nations, UN and Institute of Pacific Relations constantly negotiated national and imperial politics, lesser-resourced political networks also used international conferences to forward their more radical demands.Taken together these conferences radically expand our conception of where and how modern internationalism emerged, and make the case for focusing on internationalism in a contemporary moment when its merits are being called into question.>

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• Assisted by: Stephen Legg (Editor), David Brydan (Editor), Mike Heffernan (Editor), Jake Hodder (Editor), Benjamin Thorpe (Editor), Legg Stephen (Editor), Heffernan Mike (Editor), Thorpe Benjamin (Editor)
• Authors: Stephen Legg, Mike Heffernan, Jake Hodder, Thor
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2023
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781350247215
• ISBN: 978-1-350-24721-5
• Pages: 276
• Dimensions (packing): 15.4 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm
• Series: Histories of Internationalism
• Subjects: History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, International Relations, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political History, General and world history, Modern History, international history