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The end of liberal international order? Open
These are not happy times for liberal internationalists. No one can be sure how deep the crisis of liberal internationalism runs. However, in what follows, I argue that despite its troubles, liberal internationalism still has a future. The…
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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations Open
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Jan Smuts and Imperial Internationalism 28 Chapter 2: Alfred Zimmern and the Empire of Freedom 66 Chapter 3: Nations, Refugees, and Territory The Jews and the Lessons of the Nazi New Order 104 …
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Faces of Internationalism: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy Open
In Faces of Internationalism, Eugene R. Wittkopf examines the changing nature of public attitudes toward American foreign policy in the post-Vietnam era and the role that public opinion plays in the American foreign policymaking process. D…
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Taking Foreign Policy Personally: Personal Values and Foreign Policy Attitudes Open
Previous research shows that, when it comes to foreign policy, individuals have general orientations that inform their beliefs toward more specific issues in international relations. But such studies evade an even more important question: …
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Transnationalism: current debates and new perspectives Open
This article provides evidence-based results regarding current debates on transnationalism. It draws on the content analysis of the 50 most cited (according to the major academic databases and search engines in 2020) and the 50 most recent…
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Liberal internationalism: historical trajectory and current prospects Open
Liberal internationalism has been in crisis for a while now. Yet, until recently its supporters have argued that its prospects are better than ever since the successful spread of liberal principles, practices and institutions in the intern…
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Reactionary Internationalism: the philosophy of the New Right Open
What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the internat…
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The Lumumba University in Moscow: higher education for a Soviet–Third World alliance, 1960–91 Open
Founded in Moscow in 1960 for students from Third World countries, the Peoples’ Friendship University ‘Patrice Lumumba’ was the most important venture in international higher education during the Cold War and a flagship of Soviet internati…
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Internationalisms Open
This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central ban…
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Introduction: Agents of Internationalism Open
In 2005 Contemporary European History published a special issue on transnationalism, edited by Patricia Clavin and Jens-Wilhelm Wessels. The articles presented six examples of ‘transnational’ connections between Europeans from different co…
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‘Nordicness’ in Swedish foreign policy – from mid power internationalism to small state balancing? Open
This paper focuses on Nordicness, i.e. the perception and recognition of a Nordic role in Swedish foreign policy. Based on a framework about security cultures, it identifies and analyses Nordicness – defined in terms of role perceptions – …
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Conclusion: Beyond Liberal Internationalism Open
The contributors to this special issue have taken up the challenge of reconsidering some of the fundamental assumptions that have traditionally underpinned the history of internationalism. In doing so their articles (some more explicitly t…
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Pandemics and the politics of difference: rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera Open
This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis, brought global differences such as social inequalities, p…
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Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes Open
This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solid…
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Women Crusade for Peace: Claudia Jones and the Cold War Peace Movement Open
After World War II, peace became a central tenet of the Black freedom struggle. But it was also a liability to be associated with peace because the Soviet Union was a major advocate of the peace movement during the Cold War. Claudia Jones,…
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The Soft Power of a Small State: Discursive Constructions and Institutional Practices of Norway's Peace Engagement Open
Since the end of the Cold War, Norway has widely functioned as facilitator for conflict resolution in interstate conflicts and, thus, constructed Norwegian foreign policy as an international peace promoter. This article provides a critical…
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Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today Open
Critical Agrarian Studies has three actual and aspirational interlocking features which together connect the worlds of academic research and practical politics: it is politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist. These features also…
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Cold Wars Open
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the exclusive driving forces of the international system. Lorenz …
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Other Bandungs: Afro-Asian Internationalisms in the Early Cold War Open
This essay introduces a special issue focused on "Other Bandungs," which moves away from the focus on the high diplomacy of the 1955 Bandung conference to examine other conferences and gatherings across the Afro-Asian world. These gatherin…
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Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 Open
Introduction - excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism Open
The Quincy coalition is driven by common adversaries rather than a shared vision of political order and society; liberal internationalism is more appropriate to contemporary global realities.
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Is Japan Really Back? The “Abe Doctrine” and Global Governance Open
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has emerged as the "comeback kid" of Japanese politics and in his second term of office is now widely regarded as a rare example of strong leadership as he seeks to arrest and reverse his country's percei…
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‘White privilege’ and shortcuts to anti-racism Open
By unpacking the way in which the concept of ‘white privilege’ is taking over as a shortcut in the analysis of racism, this article assesses its use in anti-racist movements. Using the author’s experiences as both an academic and an activi…
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The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth-Century Idealism Open
Leonard Woolf: Influence, Achievements, and Reputation Fabian Internationalism and Utopianism International Government: An Exposition International Government: An Analysis and Assessment Imperialism: An Exposition Imperialism: An Analysis …
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Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country Open
Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE‐Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualis…
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Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism Open
This piece reconsiders histories of anti-racist thought and practice, including the linkages between anti-racisms and other traditions of liberatory thought. We argue that anti-racism should be understood as a strand in radical thought lin…
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The social-democratic roots of global governance: Welfare internationalism from the 19th century to the United Nations Open
Welfare internationalism was and still is one of the most powerful justifications for establishing international organizations. It suggests that public international organizations should cater to the material needs of individuals, rather t…
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“One and the Same the World Over”: The International Culture of Surgical Exchange in an Age of Globalization, 1870–1914 Open
This paper examines the international exchange in surgery in the decades before World War I, a period of growing globalization in communication and transport. Focusing on Europe and North America, it looks first at the various means of exc…
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For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism Open
The usual suspects of middle power internationalism—small and middle powers such as Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden—have all contributed to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This article argues that while …
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Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes Towards Migrants in Russia Open
The paper investigates the effect of Communist legacies on attitudes toward migrants in present-day Russia. Midway through the first decade of the 2000s, Russia established itself as an attractive center of labor migration. This rise of mi…