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"A landmark work of global history, powerfully argued and superbly researched, "The Guardians" explains how the modern international order of normative statehood came to be. In an account rich in people and institutions, structures and contingencies, Pedersen demonstrates how imperial ambitions, nationalist claims, revanchism, and idealism collided and combined in Geneva and on the ground in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s. As an analysis of the unintended consequences that internationalism set in train, the book is bracing. The histories Pedersen tells, both human and institutional, are haunting."--