Networking the International System Global Histories of International Organizations /

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 appr...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Herren, Madeleine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Σειρά:Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Towards a Global History of International Organization
  • Part 1: Constructing the Memory of International Organizations
  • From the League of Nations to the United Nations: The Continuing Preservation and Development of the Geneva Archives
  • Matsuoka Yosuke’s Miscalculation at Geneva: A Possible Reconsideration Using JACAR Data
  • Part 2: Eurocentrism and Science Policy
  • On the Concept of International Organization: Centralization, Hegemonism and Constitutionalism
  • Activities and Discourses on International Cultural Relations in Modern Japan: The Making of KBS (Kokusai Bunka Shinko Kai), 1934–53
  • International Control of Epidemic Diseases from a Historical and Cultural Perspective
  • Part 3: International Organization as a Forum: Turning Local Concerns into Global Issues
  • Sino-Japanese Controversies over the Textbook Problem and the League of Nations
  • Beyond Empires’ Science: Inter-Imperial Pacific Science Network in the 1920s
  • Networking through the Y: The Role of YMCA in China’s Search for New National Identity and Internationalization
  • Part 4: Culture and Standardization: The Multifunctional and Contradictory Use of International Organizations
  • Global Governance: From Organizations to Networks or Not?
  • New Capitalism, UNESCO and the Re-enchantment of Culture
  • Popular Culture and International Cooperation in the 1930s/CIAP and the League of Nations
  • Avenues and Confines of Globalizing the Past: UNESCO’s International Commission for a “Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind” (1952–1969).