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Book SynopsisDiving into the archives of international organizations and associations, Sandrine Kott provides a new account of the Cold War that foregrounds the rise of internationalism as both an ideology and a practice.
Trade ReviewThis terrific history of the last great efforts to effect global coordination and cooperation could not be more timely given the enormous and extraordinarily dangerous challenges the world faces today. It is a powerful corrective to the notion that conflict means the end of cooperation, showing that internationalism was not marginal to the Cold War, but a characteristic feature of it. -- Patricia Clavin, author of
Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946In this immensely stimulating study, Sandrine Kott delineates exciting new paths for twentieth-century international and global history. Using international organizations as sites to explore the shifting balance of social, economic, and political forces between the Western, Communist, and Third worlds, Kott shows that the Cold War was much more than simply a struggle between two superpowers. -- Talbot C. Imlay, author of
The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914-1960This brilliantly written book offers a new understanding of the Cold War through the lens of international organizations. Kott unfolds various forms of internationalisms, whose impact, form, and content revolve around the global scale of social and economic inequality during the Cold War period. -- Madeleine Herren, coauthor of
Transcultural History: Theories, Methods, SourcesTable of ContentsList of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Two Parts of Europe During the Postwar Period
2. The Emergence of a “Second World”: Center and Periphery
3. Internationalisms During the Cold War
4. The Europe of Convergences
5. The Third World and the New International Economic Order
6. From Internationalisms to Globalism: The Slow Agony of the Cold War
Conclusion: Beyond the Cold War
Notes
Bibliography
Index
