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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 Using the 1930s as a historical reference, the contributions question role of international organizations during conflicts, war, and crises, gaining insights into their function as peacekeeping forces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

Eingeführte Reihe. Die Professorin für Neuere Geschichte an der Uni Heidelberg untersucht chronologisch und über Europa hinaus die Entstehung und Bedeutung internationaler Organisationen und internationalen Handelns vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. Dabei stellt sie die Organisationen nicht im Einzelnen detailliert vor. Sie beschreibt sie "als Plattformen der Auseinandersetzung zwischen nationaler Abgrenzung und dem Ausbau globaler Netzwerke". Sie bezieht in ihrer Analyse auch über die jeweiligen Landesgrenzen hinausgehende Veranstaltungen mit ein, also Kongresse, Konferenzen, Weltausstellungen. Sie hebt die im Laufe der Entwicklung internationalen Handelns zunehmende Bedeutung nichtstaatlicher Organisationen hervor. Mit Begriffserläuterungen teilweise in Englisch, Bibliografie, Sach-, Namensregister. Für Studierende, Lehrer und historisch Interessierte. (3)

At the Second Hague Peace Conference diplomacy was confronted with a market of political information significantly shaped by an international public sphere. The media & civil society wanted to be acknowledged as new participants of international politics. Increasingly they tried to challenge the hitherto existing diplomatic privilege of interpretation. This article analyses the manifold interactions of diplomacy, civil society networks & the public sphere using the newspaper edited specially for the Peace Conference by William T. Stead, the Courrier de la Conference, as an example. The preparations for the Third Hague Conference were to show that an international public sphere & multilateral cooperations had become an essential part of international politics. References.

"Sites of International Memory interrogates the political and cultural legacies of the recent international past in conceptualizations of nationhood and identity today in the material and ideological sites of international memory. It maps an international past that was often simultaneously imperial and national, cosmopolitan and global, and that is now is sometimes self-consciously remembered, or more often actively forgotten"--

Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, or even empires, but also an international past. The essays in Sites of International Memory address the notion of a shared past, and how this idea is promulgated through sites and commemorative gestures that create or promote cultural memory of such global issues as wars, genocide, and movements of cross-national trade and commerce, as well as resistance and revolution.In doing so, this edited collection asks: Where are the sites of international memory? What are the elements of such memories of international pasts, and of internationalism? How and why have we remembered or forgotten "sites" of international memory? Which elements of these international pasts are useful in the present?Some contributors address specific sites and moments-World War II, liberation movements in India and Ethiopia, commemorations of genocide-while other pieces concentrate more on the theoretical, on the idea of cultural memory. UNESCO's presence looms large in the volume, as it is the most visible and iconic international organization devoted to creating critical heritage studies on a world stage. Formed in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO was instrumental in promoting the idea of a "humanity" that exists beyond national, regional, or cultural borders or definitions. Since then, UNESCO's diplomatic and institutional channels have become the sites at which competing notions of international, world, and "human" communities have jostled in conjunction with politically specific understandings of cultural value and human rights.This volume has been assembled to investigate sites of international memory that commemorate a past when it was possible to imagine, identify, and invoke "international" ideas, institutions, and experiences, in diverse, historically situated contexts.Contributors:Dominique Biehl, Kristal Buckley, Roland Burke, Kate Darian-Smith, Sarah C. Dunstan, David Goodman, Madeleine Herren, Philippa Hetherington, Rohan Howitt, Alanna O'Malley, Eric Paglia, Glenda Sluga, Sverker Sörlin, Carolien Stolte, Beatrice Wayne, Ralph Weber, Jay Winter

Responding to transformations often described by the shorthand expression "globalization," the Europainstitut changed its English name in 2013 to Institute for European Global Studies. Five years later, members of the Institute came together to discuss their different views and assess the aims of European Global Studies. Among the points touched upon are the importance of different disciplinary backgrounds in this endeavor, the question of interdisciplinarity and/or transdisciplinarity, as well as the perceived challenges and promises with regard to the future of European Global Studies.The latest issue of the E-Journal «Global Europe» contains a transcript of parts of this discussion, edited and framed with introductory paragraphs in order to increase readability and facilitate comprehension. The purpose of publishing this discussion on European Global Studies is to clarify the current agenda of the Institute, to showcase the plurality of approaches pursued under its roof, and also to outline its innovative potential for the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the 21st century.