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From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism. Although very different from one another, each of these movements has created alliances across borders, with activists stressing that their concerns are not confined to individual nation states.In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that global efforts of this kind are not a recent phenomenon, and that as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross them. Activism Across Borders since 1870 explores how individuals, groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for political and social change, and considers the impact of national and ideological boundaries on their efforts. Focusing on Europe but with a global outlook, the book acknowledges the importance of imperial and postcolonial settings for groups and individuals that expressed far-reaching ambitions.From feminism and socialism to anti-war campaigns and green politics, this book approaches transnational activism with an emphasis on four features: connectedness, ambivalence, transience and marginality. In doing so, it demonstrates the intertwined nature of different movements, problematizes transnational action, discusses the temporary nature of some alliances, and shows how transnationalism has been used by those marginalized at the national level. With a broad chronological perspective and thematic chapters, it provides historical context, clarifies terms and concepts, and offers an alternative history of modern Europe through the lens of activists, movements and campaigns

List of Abbreviations - vii -- Acknowledgements - ix -- Preface (Daniel Laqua) - xi -- Introduction: Conceptualising Transnational Thought and Action between the Wars (Patricia Clavin) - 1 -- Part A: Infrastructures and Ideas of Internationalism - 15 -- 1. Liberal Internationalist Approaches to Science and Technology in Interwar Britain and the US (Waqar Zaidi) - 17 -- 2. Experts for Peace: Structures and Motivations of Philanthropic Internationalism in the Interwar Years (Katharina Rietzler) - 45 -- 3. In between 'Vague Theory' and 'Sound Practical Lines': Transnational Municipalism in Interwar Europe (Stefan Couperus) - 67 Part B: The League of Nations and the Efforts of Non-State Actors - 91 -- 4. 'The Breath of a New Life'? : British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations (Amalia Ribi) - 93 -- 5. Internationalism in the Economic and Financial Organisation of the League of Nations (Yann Decorzant) - 115 -- 1. 'Credit or Chaos?': The Austrian Stabilisation Programme of 1923 and the League of Nations (Frank Beyersdorf) - 134 Part C: The Transnational and National Contexts of Advocacy - 159 -- 2. 'A Real Meeting of the Women of the East and West': Women and Internationalism in the Interwar Period (Marie Sandell) - 161 -- 3. The Lifeblood of the League? Voluntary Associations and League of Nations Activism in Britain (Helen McCarthy ) - 187 -- 4. Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifist (Daniel Laqua) - 209 -- Notes on the Contributors - 239 -- Index - 243.

"The Union of International Associations (UIA), founded in in 1910, sought to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. As both an information hub on international organizations and an international body in its own right, the UIA's long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics. International Organizations and Global Civil Society is the first scholarly study to cover both the Union of International Associations' early years and its more recent past. It brings together experts from a variety of fields, including history, political science and international relations, architecture, digital humanities and library and information studies to explore key issues including the major ideas that were fundamental for the UIA's activities, the UIA's importance for the development of the field of scientific internationalism, the relations between the UIA and other international organizations and the changing position of the UIA when facing geopolitical challenges such as totalitarianism, the World Wars, decolonization, the Cold War and the making of a new world order. The volume sheds light on the history of social, cultural and political internationalism, and the way in which knowledge about international organizations was constructed, collected and conveyed. It addresses a number of current scholarly concerns: the concept of 'global civil society'; the development of international relations as a field of study; the investigation of transnational factors in modern and contemporary history; and the tracing of forerunners to the 'information society'."--Bloomsbury Publishing