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Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Daniel Laqua
Daniel Laqua
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School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international understanding through the promotion of educational, scientific, and cultural exchange. Whereas previous studies have revealed the institutional and diplomatic processes that shaped these bodies, the present article considers their intellectual genealogies and trajectories. Adopting a transnational perspective, it argues that the multi-layered quest for order is central to understanding intellectual cooperation in the interwar years. This concern was reflected in the role of cultural relations within the post-war order, and in the aim of strengthening intellectuals’ position in the social order (both through legal instruments and through new tools for ‘intellectual labour’).

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civilizationcultural internationalismeducationintellectual cooperationLeague of Nationstransnational history
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Journal of Global History , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , July 2011 , pp. 223 - 247
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144 For instance, following suggestions by Jean Gérard (of the Union Française des Organismes de Documentation), the IICI published a guide to documentation centres. On French ventures in this field, see Fayet-Scribe, Sylvie, Histoire de la documentation en France: culture, science et technologie de l’information, 1895–1937, Paris: CNRS Editions, 2000CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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150 Ibid., Joseph Pijoan to Henri Bonnet, 21 October 1931.

151 Ibid., Daniel Secrétan to Jean Daniel de Montenach, 20 November 1931.

152 Doninique Bourel, ‘Présentation, Henri Berr (1863–1954)’, in Biard, Agnès, Bourel, Dominique, and Brian, Eric, eds., Henri Berr et la culture du XXe siècle: histoire, science et philosophie, Paris: Albin Michel, 1997, p. 14Google Scholar.

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