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"The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. Its long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics. Bringing together experts from fields including history, political science and international relations, architecture, historical sociology, digital humanities and information studies, International Organizations and Global Civil Society is the first scholarly book to cover both the UIA’s early years and its more recent past. Key issues explored include the UIA’s importance for the field of scientific internationalism, the relations between the UIA and other international organizations, and the changing position of the UIA when facing geopolitical challenges such as totalitarianism, the World Wars and the Cold War. This important book addresses a number of current scholarly concerns: the concept of ""global civil society""; the development of international relations as a field of study; the investigation of transnational factors in modern and contemporary history; and the tracing of forerunners to the ""information society""."

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Author:   Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK) ,  Wouter Van Acker (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) ,  Christophe Verbruggen (Ghent University, Belgium)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781350055636

ISBN 10:   1350055638
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Reconstructing the Identities of an International Non-Governmental Intelligence Agency, Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK), Wouter Van Acker (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Christophe Verbruggen (Ghent University, Belgium) Part A: The Development of the UIA 1. Creating the UIA: Henri La Fontaine, Cyrille Van Overbergh and Paul Otlet W. Boyd Rayward (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and University of New South Wales, Australia) 2. The UIA and the Patronage of Internationalism: From the Belle Époque to the Second World War, Christophe Verbruggen (Ghent University, Belgium) 3. Educating Internationalists: The Context, Role and Legacies of the UIA’s ‘International University’, Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK) 4. Carving Out a New Role: The UIA after the Second World War, Nico Randeraad (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and Philip Post (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Part B: The UIA in a World of International Organizations 5. Building a ‘New International Order’: International Women’s Organizations and the UIA, Sarah Hellawell (Sunderland University, UK) 6. Legitimizing the Transnational Associative Expert: The Union Internationale des Villes and the UIA, Wouter Van Acker (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 7. Historians and International Organizations: The International Committee of Historical Sciences, Matthias Middell (Leipzig University, Germany) and Katja Naumann (Leipzig University, Germany) Part C: Exploring the UIA’s Publications and Data 8. The UIA and the Development of International Relations Theory, Thomas Davies (City University of London, UK) 9. Everything One Wants to Know about International Organizations? A Critical Biography of the Yearbook of International Organizations, 1909– 2017, Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Canada) 10. Looking for Information on International Secretariats: Digging Deeper into the Yearbook of International Organizations, Bob Reinalda (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 11. Mapping Internationalism: Congresses and Organizations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Martin Grandjean (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Epilogue: the UIA in the Twenty-First Century, Nancy Carfrae (UIA) Bibliography Index

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International Organizations and Global Civil Society is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the history of international organizations. Well-written, deeply researched, and insightful, it demonstrates the significance of the Union of International Associations to international historians, international relations scholars, and information studies specialists. * Daniel Gorman, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, Canada * This volume sheds new light on the history of international cooperation in the 20th century. Breaking out of the mould of narrow institutional histories, the authors bring the UIA to life as a crucial element of the infrastructure of Brussels-centred internationalism, and one which provided the scaffolding for many international ventures. * Jessica Reinisch, Reader in Modern European History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *

International Organizations and Global Civil Society is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the history of international organizations. Well-written, deeply researched and insightful, it demonstrates the significance of the Union of International Associations to international historians, international relations scholars and information studies specialists. * Daniel Gorman, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, Canada * This volume sheds new light on the history of international cooperation in the 20th century. Breaking out of the mould of narrow institutional histories, the authors bring the UIA to life as a crucial element of the infrastructure of Brussels-centred internationalism, and one which provided the scaffolding for many international ventures. * Jessica Reinisch, Reader in Modern European History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *

International Organizations and Global Civil Society is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the history of international organizations. Well-written, deeply researched, and insightful, it demonstrates the significance of the Union of International Associations to international historians, international relations scholars, and information studies specialists. * Daniel Gorman, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, Canada *

Author Information

Daniel Laqua is Associate Professor of European History at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of The Age of Internationalism and Belgium, 1880–1930: Peace, Progress and Prestige (2013). Wouter Van Acker is Associate Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Christophe Verbruggen is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural History at Ghent University, Belgium.

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