HHIK01832U HIS 83. The League of Nations: international organization, international politics and internationalism, 1850s-1950s
History
Område B: akademisk skriftlighed med fokus på kildeanalyse
(HHIK03831E)
[Fagstudieordning. Kandidatuddannelsen i historie, 2019-ordningen]
Område B: akademisk skriftlighed med fokus på kildeanalyse
(HHIK03871E)
[Fagstudieordning. Kandidatdelen af sidefaget i historie,
2019-ordningen]
Historisk kerneområde 2: Akademisk skriftlighed med fokus på
kildeanalyse (HHIK03741E)
[Studieordning for det centrale fag på kandidatniveau i Historie,
2015-ordningen]
Historisk kerneområde 2: Akademisk skriftlighed med fokus på
kildeanalyse (HHIK03741E)
[Studieordning for sidefaget på kandidatniveau i Historie,
2015-ordningen]
Historisk tilvalgsområde 1 (HHIB10211E) [kun for
studerende med grundfag i Historie]
[Fagstudieordning. Bachelortilvalg i historie,
2019-ordningen]
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HIS 83. The League of Nations: international organization,
international politics and internationalism, 1850s-1950s
Why did the victorious Great Powers decide to set up an
international organization - The League of Nations - to manage the
plethora of regional and global challenges following the First
World War? Which deeper structural, ideological, political and
economic forces drove the shift from the 19th century Concert of
Europe to the 20th century League of Nations? How did the League of
Nations function and shape international politics in the interwar
period? And, what was the lasting impact and legacy of the League
on 20th and 21st century international politics and organization?
These are the main questions that this course will seek to answer.
We will do so in a systematic manner, dealing first with the slow
emergence of various forms of internationalism in the 19th Century.
Second, we turn to the devastating and transformative impact of the
First World War on the way the world was organized in its wake. We
then, thirdly, explore the Paris Peace Conference and the lasting
effects of the hasty diplomacy of the first half of 1919. A fourth
- and major - element of the course will delve into the
organization of the League of Nations and the role it played in
interwar politics. Here we will take a deeper dive into three
particular policy areas: international disarmament efforts, the
mandate system of internationalized colonial rule and the economic
and financial work of the League. This reflects a recent
historiographical shift, in which the League is no longer simply
understood as a “failed” organization, but a first laboratory of
global governance. Lastly, and in continuation of this, the course
will trace the legacies and lessons learned from the League into
postwar international politics and organization. The course will
look more closely at the League’s immediate successor organization,
the United Nations, and its special agencies, and the Bretton Woods
system of economic organizations.
The course will consist of group instructions/seminar teaching,
combining small lectures, group exercises and individual analytical
and writing exercises, and aims at the complexities of writing
histories of international organizations and how to analyze sources
in multinational, transnational or even global contexts. We will
rely on Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an
Idea, 1815 to the Present (2013), a selection of articles and
book chapters, and published and unpublished sources, mostly from
the League of Nations Archives in Geneva.
- Mark Mazower: Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present.2013.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 56
- Preparation
- 203
- Exam Preparation
- 129,5
- Total
- 388,5
Blanketnavn:
KA, hovedfag: Historie: Omr B, Forår
2021
KA, sidefag: Historie: Omr B (sidefag), Forår
2021
BA tilvalg [kun for studerende med grundfag i
Historie]: Historie: Internt BA-tilvalg,
Forår 2021
Ordinær tilmelding: Ved tilmelding skal der vælges
tre "Omr B" kurser i prioriteret rækkefølge. Ved
færre prioriteringer opfattes et andet "Omr B "kursus som
2. og 3. prioritet. Tjek alle tilmeldinger inden du logger af
Selvbetjeningen. Hvis der opstår problemer med tilmelding til
Historiekurser kan der i tilmeldingsperioden hentes hjælp kl. 10-12
på tlf.: 51 29 98 32.
Eftertilmeldingsperioden: på kurser med ledige pladser
anvendes direkte holdplacering i Selvbetjeningen. Tjek alle
tilmeldinger inden du logger af Selvbetjeningen.
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other under invigilation
- Exam registration requirements
Aktuelle studieordninger for Historie og Studiehåndbogen [KA] (2015 & 2019) og Studiehåndbogen [BA] (2013 & 2019).
Criteria for exam assesment
Aktuelle studieordninger for Historie og Studiehåndbogen [KA] (2015 & 2019) og Studiehåndbogen [BA] (2013 & 2019).
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HHIK01832U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor choice,Master’s minor subject
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See scheme link
- Course is also available as continuing and professional education
- Study board
- Study Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting department
- SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Haakon Andreas Ikonomou (8-6d6f737273717379446c7971326f7932686f)