Glenda Sluga
Biographic Data
| ID | 970260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenda Sluga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Sluga |
| SIGNATURE | SLUGA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2481-3394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History
Published: 13 June 2024
Introduction
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new era of liberal internationalism — of democracy, free markets, the rule of law, and individual human rights on a global scale. In this new world, states cooperated peacefully with each other through international institutions and were held in check by ‘global civil society’, the network of newly founded transnational NGOs. Now, after the killing fields and failed utopias of the twentieth century, was the ti…
Response to Thomas Peak’s Review of The Invention of International Order
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Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in
This afterword looks back at the transnational history of business to argue that the history of transnational business associations prospectively opens a vista onto a new kind of methodological cosmopolitanism
What Do We Learn about War and Peace from Women International Thinkers
The aim of this essay is to ask what can we learn about war and peace from women international thinkers? As I will show, new and old historical evidence of women thinkers points us in directions that suggest, first, the privations women regularly faced in order to make their arguments against the background of actual war, addressing both the more conventional “women's” topic of peace and the often masculinized controversies of the nature of viole…
Eingegangene Bücher
The history of gendered Jewish internationalism, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms
This essay grapples with where gendered Jewish international history belongs, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms. The history of Jewish internationalism is ultimately about Jewish nationalism, including countering the idea that Jewish internationalism is a sign of the absence of a Jewish nationalism. Women must be stirred in as one assesses the relative influences of religion and nation in stories of internationalism
Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s
The role of business and multinational corporations (MNCs) in early international environmental governance is not well understood. Typically, historians accord business growing influence after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, coincident with the rise of a market-oriented sustainable development paradigm. In this article, we highlight the considerable involvement of self-styled business actors in the formative 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment…
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Securing Europe after Napoleon
Economic developments have long shaped what we think of as the main themes of global as well as national history, from the story of capitalism and the industrial revolution, to the age of empires-cum-nations. Yet peacemaking at the end of the Napoleonic wars brought onto the international scene financiers, rentiers, and bankers, funding the future of Europe. Their presence was indicative of the emergence of a new capitalist economic order shaped …
New’ Histories of (Australian) Capitalism
In the decade since the Great Recession of 2007–08, ‘capitalism’ has re-emerged as a pervasive framework for understanding a world in momentous flux. Across the globe, a torrent of public-minded scholarship has debated the past, present, future and end of capitalism in an effort to grapple with the endemic challenges of poverty, automation, inqualities of wealth and ecological crisis. Historians have positioned themselves at the fore of these deb…
Remembering 1919
Several of the world's intergovernmental organizations have now existed for longer than many nation-states. The centenary of the peacemaking that ended the First World War offers the opportunity of making good policy use of new histories that inform us about the shifting horizon of international expectations, the social dimensions of international thinking and international political cultures, their nation-state roots, and the sum of this relativ…
Internationalisms
Who Hold the Balance of the World?” Bankers at the Congress of Vienna, and in International History
By the early nineteenth century, the contingencies of more than two decades of continental wars had reinforced the indispensability of bankers and their networks to European governments. In a period when the term “international” was itself relatively new, bankers were historical agents in a new era of international politics and finance. The bankers, and their families, who gathered around the great congresses established by the statesmen of Europ…
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500
Turning International
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Rediscovering Internationalism
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On the Historical Significance of the Presence, and Absence, of Women at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
Madame de Staël and the Transformation of European Politics, 1812–17
What place do women have in international history? This article approaches the chronic uncertainty surrounding this question through an examination of the role of one woman, Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), in the processes of peace-making that Paul W. Schroeder has described in his landmark study The Transformation of European Politics as ‘the decisive turning point’ in the transformation of ‘the governing rules, norms, and practices of internatio…
Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Glenda Sluga traces internationalism through its rise before World War I, its mid-century apogee, and its decline after 9/11. Drawing on archival material and contemporary accounts, this innovative history restores internationalism as essential to understanding nationalism in the twentieth century.
The Aftermath of War
Fascism was conceived amid the disorder associated with the transition from war to peace. The war shaped a predilection for the resort to violence, and disrespect for the practices of civil society and for the rule of law. The diplomatic process that began Paris in 1919, raising hopes among progressives for an international solution to the problems of order and the prospect of permanent peace, ultimately exacerbated post-war disillusion. Some his…
No Enchanted Palace
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Cosmopolitanism
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This article investigates the idea of cosmopolitanism associated with internationalism and the origins of UNESCO at the end of World War II. In the first few years of UNESCO's operation, delegates and functionaries portrayed "world citizenship" as the path to permanent world peace and as a necessary step in the evolution of human society from tribes to nations, from national consciousness to "one world." A key figure in that history was Julian Hu…
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Unesco and the (One) World of Julian Huxley
This article investigates the idea of cosmopolitanism associated with internationalism and the origins of UNESCO at the end of World War II. In the first few years of UNESCO's operation, delegates and functionaries portrayed "world citizenship" as the path to permanent world peace and as a necessary step in the evolution of human society from tribes to nations, from national consciousness to "one world." A key figure in that history was Julian Hu…
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No Enchanted Palace
For all the scholarly attention that the United Nations (UN) has generated in its sixty-five years of existence, serious historical studies have been few. Recently, however, the transnationalism vogue has coincided with a revival of interest in international organisations. The title of Mark Mazower's book—and its cover illustration of bowler-hatted and besuited men standing as if enchanted by the ruins of a classical civilisation—situates it with…
Cosmopolitanism
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Trieste
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Remembering 1919
Several of the world's intergovernmental organizations have now existed for longer than many nation-states. The centenary of the peacemaking that ended the First World War offers the opportunity of making good policy use of new histories that inform us about the shifting horizon of international expectations, the social dimensions of international thinking and international political cultures, their nation-state roots, and the sum of this relativ…
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The aim of this essay is to ask what can we learn about war and peace from women international thinkers? As I will show, new and old historical evidence of women thinkers points us in directions that suggest, first, the privations women regularly faced in order to make their arguments against the background of actual war, addressing both the more conventional “women's” topic of peace and the often masculinized controversies of the nature of viole…
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Turning International
This essay provides an overview of the disciplinary and analytical significance of David Armitage's Foundations of Modern International Thought in the context of the new international history, and the so-called ‘international turn’. It then goes on to discuss the significance of the absence of women in this new sub-field of intellectual history
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The Risiera di San Sabba
This essay examines the postwar debates surrounding the Risiera di San Sabba, the site of a Nazi death‐camp near Trieste, and explores the deeper conflicts and contradictions in the formation of an Italian national identity in the period since the Second World War. Keywords: TriesteSecond World WarItalian Fascismconcentration campsHolocaust memorials
Cold War casualties
Inventing Trieste
The migrant dreaming
No Man's Land
Trieste
In many histories of Trieste the city is located in the south-eastern corner of a geopolitical area comprising northern Italy, Austria and northern Yugoslavia, at the head of the Adriatic Sea, and at the heart of a region known variously as Venezia Giulia, Julijska Krajina, or the Julian March. A Habsburg port in the nineteenth century, Trieste was brought within Italian borders in 1920.' Following the second world war, the liberated city's statu…
The Risiera di San Sabba
This essay examines the postwar debates surrounding the Risiera di San Sabba, the site of a Nazi death‐camp near Trieste, and explores the deeper conflicts and contradictions in the formation of an Italian national identity in the period since the Second World War. Keywords: TriesteSecond World WarItalian Fascismconcentration campsHolocaust memorials
Cold War casualties
Inventing Trieste
Storia delle Origini del Fascismo
Identity, Gender, and the History of European Nations and Nationalisms
The distinction between cultural and political nationalisms has become a commonplace in writings on nations and nationalism. In this article I analyse the relation of culture to politics in the history of modem European nationalist thought from a gender perspective. I argue that gendered forms of national identification and masculinist definitions of the body politic and the national citizen were mutually reinforcing. The article has three main s…
Female and National Self‐Determination
This article offers a gender re‐reading of the international history of the post‐First World War peace process, a period when nationalism is said to have reached its ‘apogee’, when national self‐determination and mutual cooperation between nations in the form of a League of Nations defined liberal aspirations for a democratic new world order. It was also a period when international women's organisations emphasised female self‐determination as bot…
Bodies, Souls and Sovereignty
Since the end of the First World War, the history of Austria-Hungary's demise has been the subject of considerable historiographical controversy. Historians have been concerned to show either the inevitability or impropriety of the dismemberment of the Habsburg empire. This article traces the shifting imaginative representations of Austria-Hungary prior to and during the First World War with the intention of understanding the changing status of c…
Narrating Difference and Defining the Nation in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 'Western' Europe
This article examines the influence of Orientalist representations of Eastern Europe on definitions and theories of the nation, and their impact on normative interpretations of the nature of nations and national identity in Western Europe. It focuses on the history of the development of these normative interpretations in the decades leading up to and including the First World War. During this period European progressives--whether intellectuals, s…
What is national self-determination? Nationality and psychology during the apogee of nationalism
The idea of national self-determination propounded at the 1919 peace conference centred in Paris marked a new era in international relations. In this article I re-examine the history of the idea of national self-determination in this period by situating it in the context of ‘the psychological turn’. I argue that national self-determination came to serve as a popular philosophical basis for post-war democracy among Entente liberals at a time when …
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Passions, patriotism and nationalism, and Germaine de Staël1
This essay examines the influence of sentimentalism on conceptions of patriotism at the turn of the nineteenth century in order to historicise conventional views of the nature of patriotism as a fundamental human emotion. It uses a focus on the intellectual thought of Germaine de Staël in order to understand how a ‘sentimental’ view of patriotism took hold at a crucial moment in the European history of the idea of the nation and of the conceptual…
No Enchanted Palace
For all the scholarly attention that the United Nations (UN) has generated in its sixty-five years of existence, serious historical studies have been few. Recently, however, the transnationalism vogue has coincided with a revival of interest in international organisations. The title of Mark Mazower's book—and its cover illustration of bowler-hatted and besuited men standing as if enchanted by the ruins of a classical civilisation—situates it with…
Cosmopolitanism
Historians are returning to cosmopolitanism as a significant historical theme. This introductory essay briefly surveys some of the latest trends that mark this new interest, including its interdisciplinary influences and its focus on both cultural and political forms of cosmopolitanism
Unesco and the (One) World of Julian Huxley
This article investigates the idea of cosmopolitanism associated with internationalism and the origins of UNESCO at the end of World War II. In the first few years of UNESCO's operation, delegates and functionaries portrayed "world citizenship" as the path to permanent world peace and as a necessary step in the evolution of human society from tribes to nations, from national consciousness to "one world." A key figure in that history was Julian Hu…
The Aftermath of War
Fascism was conceived amid the disorder associated with the transition from war to peace. The war shaped a predilection for the resort to violence, and disrespect for the practices of civil society and for the rule of law. The diplomatic process that began Paris in 1919, raising hopes among progressives for an international solution to the problems of order and the prospect of permanent peace, ultimately exacerbated post-war disillusion. Some his…
Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Glenda Sluga traces internationalism through its rise before World War I, its mid-century apogee, and its decline after 9/11. Drawing on archival material and contemporary accounts, this innovative history restores internationalism as essential to understanding nationalism in the twentieth century.
Rediscovering Internationalism
The world ended up with a League that simultaneously normalized international government and privileged the nation-state as the normative form of political sovereignty
On the Historical Significance of the Presence, and Absence, of Women at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
Madame de Staël and the Transformation of European Politics, 1812–17
What place do women have in international history? This article approaches the chronic uncertainty surrounding this question through an examination of the role of one woman, Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), in the processes of peace-making that Paul W. Schroeder has described in his landmark study The Transformation of European Politics as ‘the decisive turning point’ in the transformation of ‘the governing rules, norms, and practices of internatio…
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