Activism in the 'Students' League of Nations

International Student Politics and the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants, 1919-1939

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5750892
AutoresDaniel Laqua (0000-0001-7697-5582, Northumbria University 1, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen132
Número556
Páginas605-637
Fecha de publicación2017-06-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe English Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ehr/cex153
OpenAlexW2728897889
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

The aftermath of the First World War saw manifold efforts to (re-)construct an international community. One striking feature of this development was the foundation of a number of international student organisations. This article analyses the largest of these organisations-the International Confederation of Students (Confédération internationale des Étudiants, CIE), using it as a prism through which to examine four major aspects of inter-war student internationalism: nationalism, intellectual co-operation, mobility and radicalism. The CIE brought together the representatives of different national unions of students and thus involved activists who could cast themselves as future leaders. It portrayed its activities as 'apolitical', embracing an internationalism that sought to consolidate, rather than overthrow, the international order. To this end, the organisation co-operated with the League of Nations, particularly in the realm of student travel. Yet, despite its discourse of peace and non-partisanship, the CIE suffered from manifold national divisions and maintained an uneasy relationship with the political developments of the period. In this context, the article shows how, rather than being the domain of impractical idealists, internationalism provided an arena for the pursuit of competing national and political agendas

International relations · Internationalism (politics) · League · Media studies · Nationalism · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law

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