Routledge History of International Organizations: From 1815 to the Present Day

by Reinalda; Bob

• ISBN13: 9780415476249
• ISBN10: 0415476240
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning in 1815 up to the present day.

Table of Contents

1815: British hegemony and the invention of the multilateral conference plus follow-up conference

The concert of Europe and the central commission for the navigation of the Rhine

Emergence and evolution of international organizations

1815: The British postwar institutional strategy and the Concert of Europe

The Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine and burgeoning free trade

Transnational networks of citizens

From the anti-slavery movement in 1815 to the international committee of the red cross of 1863

Citizens organizing transnationally in support of slavery abolition and peace

The International Red Cross made responsible for the Geneva Convention on Wounded Soldiers (1864)

The creation of the hague system

The arbitration movement and the 1899 and 1907 peace conferences in the Hague

Arbitration and international law as normative powers in international relations

The 1899 and 1907 Peace Conferences in The Hague and the Hague system

Public international unions 1865-1914

Institutionalization of conferences and the creation of continental markets in Europe and the Americas

Creation of the International Telegraph Union (1865) and the Universal Postal Union (1874)

Standardization and intellectual property regulated internationally

Regulation of international shipping, railway and road traffic

Public international unions and the creation of continental markets in Europe and the Americas 1860-1910

The International Foundation for the Welfare State 1880-1914

How governments became involved in International labour legislation

International business around the end of the nineteenth century

Rising international emancipation movements of workers and women

International labour conventions (1906) and the foundation for the welfare state

Laying down the path of collective security

The first world war, the League of Nations founded (1919) and the interwar period

The First World War and the creation of the League of Nations (1919)

The major powers and collective security in the interwar period

Laying down the path of common economic endeavours

The International Labour Organization (1919) and the economic and social activities of the League of Nations

The normative workings of the International Labour Organization (1919)

The League of Nations' ongoing economic and social activities

American Hegemony and the Genesis and evolution of the United Nations System

Multilateral cooperation during the Second World War

The United Nations: an improved security organization with economic coordination

The workings of the United Nations system

Collective Security in a Bipolar World 1945-80

Refugees, peacekeeping and Cold War at the United Nations

Regional alliances in the 1940s and 1950s

Peaceful coexistence and nuclear weapons control at the United Nations

Economic Cooperation in a Bipolar World 1945-70

The troubled start of the Bretton Woods institutions IBRD and IMF and the GATT regime

Marshall Aid, Eastern European integration, Western European integration and the workings of the OECD

The weakening of the Bretton Woods system and the emergence of the G7 (1975)

Decolonization, the North-South Divide and Third World experiences with global and regional international organizations 1960-80

Decolonization, anti-apartheid and the consequences of the Vietnam War

The United Nations Developmen

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