The League of Nations : Perspectives from the Present.

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword (Michael Møller)
Introduction
The League of Nations- Perspectives from the Present (Haakon A. Ikonomou And Karen Gram-Skjoldager)
Bibliography
Part 1-Inside The League
The Men Behind the Man: Canvassing the Directorship of the League of Nations Secretariat (Torsten Kahlert And Karen Gram-Skjoldager)
Three Generations
The Directors in the Institutional Setup of the Secretariat
Founding Fathers - The Firs T Generation(1920-1927)
The Insiders - The Second Genera Tion(1928-1932)
The Third Generation (1933-1946)
Conclusion and Perspectives - Afterlives
Notes
Bibliography
An International Language: The Translation and Interpretation Service (Haakon A. Ikonomou)
So Much to Do!
Towards A Geneva Language
Translation and Interpretationas Heroic Internationalism
A New Diplomacy - The Symbolic Significance of Translation and Interpretation
Notes
Bibliography
Taming the Bureaucrats: The Supervisory Commission and Political Control of The Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager)
The Power of the Purse
The Supervisory Commission Andthe Institutional Balances of the League
The Supervisory Commissionand The Rise of the Small States
War And The Problem of Avenol
Between Montreal and Geneva
Conclusion and Perspectives- Preparing for Peace
Notes
Bibliography
Competing Internationalisms at The League of Nations Secretariat, 1933-1940 (Marco Moraes)
Before Avenol
Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General(1933-1940)
Apolitical Technocracy or Fascist Internationalism?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Gender Distribution in the League of Nations: The Start of A Revolution? (Myriam Piguet)
A Unique Step Towardsgender Equality
A Gap to be Uncovered.

The Bureaucratic Revolution that Favoured the Emergence of Women in International Administration
In Practice, Genderinequality Remained
The Gendered Division of Labour
A Question of Education
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part 2-The Leaguein Context
Naturism, The Permanent Mandates Commission, And the Denial of the Violent Nature of Colonialism (Florian Wagner)
The Pmc: A Civilisin G Institution
Using The Early League to Influencethe "International Talk"To Belgium's Advantage
Colonial Internationalismand The "Neutrality" of the Pmc
"Neutrality" as Solidarityamong Colonisers
Scandals And Reform Initiatives
Legitimising Colonialism through Reform
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Israel Zangwill on Nationality and 'The League of Damnations' (Laura Almagor)
Israel Zangwill
'Nationality'
Two Men, One Brother
The League of Damnations
A Jewish Moral Vanguard
Conclusion: Against the Grain
Notes
Bibliography
The Untold Story of Eric Colban and the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (Mads Drange)
The Minority Sectionof the League of Nations
The Greco-Turkish Population exchange Agreement
Colban's Secret Diplomacy
Humanitarianism and Realpolitik
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
'He Used to Give Me Turkish Lessons in Constantinople': How to Get a Job in the League Secretariat (Haakon A. Ikonomou)
Moment of Flux
Thanassis Aghnides Gets A Job
The Lasting Significance of the First Employees
Notes
Bibliography
The Scandinavian Centre: Denmark and the Early Years of International Studies Under the League of Nations (Søren Friis)
The International Studies Conference and its Components
The Institute of Economics and History- Copenhagen and Beyond
An International Affair- Who, When And Where?.

Postscript: International Studies and the New Era
Notes
Bibliography
Neoliberals and the League of Nations: on The Incidental Birth of Neoliberalism Within the League's Dot-Connecting System
A Global Web
From Hamburg to Honolulu- To Christchurch
From Geneva to London- To Christchurch
The Incidental birth of Neoliberalism
The Landscape of The Lea Gue
Notes
Bibliography
A Fuller Knowledge of the Facts': The League of Nations' Endeavours to Produce International Expertise (Quincy Cloet)
Unfinished Dream, Underexplored Subject
Knowledge Production and Inquiry Commissions
Putting Together an Inquiry Commission
How to Find the Facts
Inquiry: What Is It Good For?
International Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Beyond the Formula of the Age of Reason: Experts, Social Sciences, And the Phonic Public in International Politics (Tomoko Akami)
Problem 1
Problem 2
And Beyond the Formula of the Age of the Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Bandung Revisited: from Rural Hygiene to Primary Health Care (Niels Brimnes)
The League of Nations' Conferenceon Rural Hygiene
The Alma-Ata Conferenceand the Principles behind Primary Health Care
From Bandung to Alma-Ata
Remembering Bandung 1937
The Legacy of the League
Notes
Bibliography
Part 3- The League: Projections And Presence
From the Gallery to The Floor: The League of Nations and the Combating of 'False Information' (Emil Eiby Seidenfaden)
The Information Section
The International Conferences of Press Experts
Moral Disarmament
The Greater League of Nations
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Film-Splaining the League of Nations (Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Nikolai Schulz and Emil Eiby Seidenfaden)
League Films and the Purpose of the League at Work
"Judge it for Yourselves".

A Smooth-Running, Fair, Efficient and Abstemious Machine
What we are not Told
Aesthetics and the Use of Cut Away Scenesto Loosen Up the League
The Scene That Will Give You Goosebumps
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Murder, Intrigue, Sex and Internationalism: Novels about the League of Nations (Benjamin Auberer)
The Death of A Diplomat- International Civil Servants as Authors
Mystery at Geneva: Novels About the League of Nations
Grand Days: League Novels After the League
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Imagining the League of Nations: Cartoons as A Prism for Perceptions of International Politics and Organisations
An Insightful Source
Narratives from the 1920s:A New Actress on the International Stage
A League Under Fire:Crisis and Failure in the 1930s
Squabbling Diplomats Andapathetic Technocrats
A League in Despair:French and German Perspectivesin France, The Unravelling of the Versailles Order Caused Security
Small Stateand Idealist Perceptions
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
'A Great Experiment': Professional Self-Perceptions and Working Conditions in the Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager)
Bureaucratic Adventurers
Dr. Léon Weber-Bauler's Report
A Tour of Palais Wilson
From Palais Wilsonto the Palais Des Nations
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
A Modernist in Geneva: Le Corbusier and the Competition for the Palais des Nations (Marco Ninno)
The Importance of Semantics
The Case of Le Corbusier
The New Project for the Arian A Parkand the Alleged Plagiarism
Conclusion: Le Corbusier's 'Revenge'
Notes
Bibliography
'The League is Dead, Long Live The United Nations': The Liquidation of the League and the Transfer of Assets to the UN (Torsten Kahlert)
Dissolution and Liquidation
Disrespect and Dignity
The League on Both Sides.

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Concluding Essay
'A Living Thing is Born': The League of Nations and The Contemporary World (Patrick Finney)
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
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