Securing the World Economy
The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198766483
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages414 pages
- Size 231x156x22 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first study of the League of Nations' work in promoting economic and financial co-operation in the wake of the Great Depression, and the first major account of the League's relationship with the USA in the 1930s and 1940s.
MoreLong description:
Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental organization confronted the powerful forces that influenced the global economy, and the prospects for peace. It traces how the League was drawn into economics and finance by the exigencies of the financial slump and hyperinflation after the First World War, when it provided essential financial support to Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Estonia, and thereby established the founding principles of financial intervention, international oversight, and the twentieth-century notion of international 'development'.
But it is the impact of the Great Depression after 1929 that lies at the heart of this history. Patricia Clavin traces how the League of Nations sought to combat economic nationalism and promote economic and monetary co-operation in a variety of, sometimes contradictory, ways. Many of the economists, bureaucrats, and policy-advisors who worked for it played a seminal role in the history of international relations and social science, and their efforts did not end with the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 the League established an economic mission in the United States, where it contributed to the creation of organizations for the post-war world - the United Nations Organization, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization - as well as to plans for European reconstruction and co-operation. It is a history that resonates deeply with challenges that face the twenty-first century world.
this is an impressive and meticulously researched monograph that has much to offer scholars working on all aspects of modern international history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Multiverse of the League, 1920-1929
From Boom to Bust, 1929-1933
Conferences and their (Dis)contents, 1933-1934
All Things Trade and Currency, All Nations Great and Small, 1933-1936
Society and Economy in Global Partnership, 1935-1938
Scrutiny and Strategy: Contesting Economic Depressions, 1937-1939
The League at War and in Pieces, 1939-1940
Made in the USA, 1941-1943
The Architecture of a New World Order, 1944-1945
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
