Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order

Bibliographic Data

ID12876751
AuthorsDaniel Laqua (0000-0001-7697-5582, Northumbria University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume6
Issue2
Pages223-247
Publication date2011-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Global History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1740022811000246
OpenAlexW2074738678
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited31

This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international understanding through the promotion of educational, scientific, and cultural exchange. Whereas previous studies have revealed the institutional and diplomatic processes that shaped these bodies, the present article considers their intellectual genealogies and trajectories. Adopting a transnational perspective, it argues that the multi-layered quest for order is central to understanding intellectual cooperation in the interwar years. This concern was reflected in the role of cultural relations within the post-war order, and in the aim of strengthening intellectuals’ position in the social order (both through legal instruments and through new tools for ‘intellectual labour’)

Economics · Intellectual history · International relations · League · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Promotion (chess · Social science · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law