Description: "A historical and methodological exploration of International Organizations as a new form of political power between the 1920s and 1960s"--
Brief description: David Brydan is a Lecturer at King's College London, UK. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the Reluctant Internationalists project, and then Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London. His first book Franco's Internationalists (2019).
Review Quotes:
"Just like the meaning of a word is its use in a language, the meaning of an International Organisation is its work in governance. In order to understand this highly productive social form, we need to understand how the employees work and how that work interacts with political life overall. This is exactly what this path-breaking volume helps us with. A triumph of inductive scholarship." --Iver B. Neumann, Director of Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
"At a time when international organizations are bearing the brunt of anti-globalization, this collection is a much needed reminder of the complex of public service goals that sit at the heart of the history of the international order, as we know it." --Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, European University Institute, Italy, and ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow, The University of Sydney, Australia "Organizing the 20th Century World is an outstanding work of scholarship. Gram-Skjoldager, Ikonomou, and Kahlert have gathered a collection of ground-breaking essays on the emergence of international administration. International historians have been waiting for a book like this for a long time" --Daniel Gorman, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, Canada "[T]his volume provides a vital introduction to the politics and influence of international bureaucrats within the dynamic sphere of world politics. ... This will be an invaluable resource for diplomatic and international historians and students, in particular for those interested in the bureaucratization of global governance and the emergence of an international peace and security industry during the mid-twentieth century." --European Review of History "[T]his volume provides a very welcome collection of studies on the early to mid-20th-century history of international public administration." --Francia-Recensio