The story of international relations: cold-blooded idealists, Part One
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In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 34-50
ISSN: 1467-8497
This article elaborates on some of the key ideas that gave rise to and animated the International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation, a body which was among the last permanent organisations of the League of Nations. Although the Commission's efforts to cement intellectual relations among nations often went unappreciated, its proponents considered intellectual cooperation to be the very heart and soul of the League's Covenant. From the outset, the Commission sought to harmonise the world's various intellectual and cultural currents while maintaining respect for diversity. During its life, the Commission also became increasingly aware of the issue of its own cultural particularity and the vital need to incorporate perspectives and traditions other than those in which its origins lay. It was in grappling with these issues, and not just in pursuing its broader mandate, that the Commission can be said to be the forerunner of UNESCO.
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 34-51
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 301-303
ISSN: 1035-7718
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 311-336
ISSN: 1469-9044
This article examines representations of the League of Nations as a creature of early twentieth century modernity. In particular it focuses on the propagation of the doctrine of rationalization in that forum from mid-1920s until early 1930s. Rationalization came to signify not only the scientific organization and control of social development, but also world interpenetration in technical, industrial, cultural and political spheres. Conjuring images of a globe crisscrossed by streams of electric energy, League functionaries and devotees spoke of a bright new dawn. Industrial flow would meld the 'minds of men'. Discussions of globalization today have a similar repertoire of arguments and many of the same linguistic items as of rationalization. In the inter-war period rationalization was held out as the destiny of the world's people, promising both harmonious integration and cultural profusion. Its rapid evaporation from intellectual and public discourse in the face of the crises of the 1930s serves as a warning to those who would weave fantastic tales of globalized tomorrows.
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 369
ISSN: 1036-1146
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 311-336
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 265-272
ISSN: 1469-9044
Andrew Williams, Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998)International relations (IR) has had an opportunistic relationship with history. IR scholars have used the past, as Conal Condren has written of political theorists, as 'a quarry ... [as a] ... source of useable facts; of entries to, and illustrations of, theoretical issues'. The result was an IR canon, of the 'Plato to Nato' variety, which was substantially anachronistic. Its dismantling over the last twenty years has much to do with efforts in the area of conceptual history. Despite this, and the keenness of post-positivist IR theorists to display an historical consciousness, IR and history maintain an uneasy association. Where the past is approached in contemporary IR writings, there is a tendency to build out of historical materials, or more worryingly commentaries on them, conceptual superstructures which are then accorded a determining force. Notions like the Enlightenment Project are the result of such acts of reification and are no less anachronistic than were the pantomime Machiavellis which used to pop up in IR text books. (It is doubtful that such a Project ever existed. Robert Wokler observes that the expression is of 'more recent pedigree than "the Manhattan Project"'.) What is purported to be historical explanation may seem more like a ghostly ballet in which structures, processes and agencies execute precisely choreographed routines.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 265-272
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 265-272
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 485-499
ISSN: 1363-030X
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 485
ISSN: 1036-1146
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 60, Heft 2, S. 188
ISSN: 0005-0091, 1443-3605
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 60, Heft 2, S. 188
ISSN: 1837-1892