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Book launch on 9 January 2019: Polio Across the Iron Curtain

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The Centre for the Study of Internationalism is delighted to team up with the Institute of Historical Research's Rethinking Modern Europe seminar series for the...

Book review: David Brydan reviews Alanna O'Malley's Diplomacy of Decolonisation

Book Review
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Continuing our book review series, David Brydan reviews Alanna O'Malley's new book, published earlier this year. If you have a suggestion for a work to...

World Government and Big History

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Centre member Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology in Birkbeck’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been in touch with some ideas...

Spotlight on: Simon Jackson

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The latest in our Spotlight series highlighting the breadth of research being conducted by the Centre’s members features Simon Jackson, Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern...

Spotlight on: David Brydan

Research
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In the latest instalment of our Spotlight blog series highlighting the breadth of research being conducted by the Centre's members, we focus on David Brydan,...

Spotlight on: Brigid O'Keeffe

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The latest post in our Spotlight series highlighting the breadth of research conducted within the Centre and starting dialogues between researchers from different academic disciplines,  features...

Biographies of Secretaries-General of International Organizations

Research
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In this post, new Centre member Bob Reinalda introduces the IO BIO project as a resource with potential applications for anyone thinking about internationalism. Biographies...

The Institution(s) of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations

Research
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In this post Alanna O'Malley and Simon Jackson introduce their new edited collection on 'The Institution of International Order', out now with Routledge. In recent...

Spotlight on: Stephen Legg

Research
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Our new Spotlight series introduces members of the Centre and their research. We hope that these ‘spotlights’ will highlight the breadth of research conducted within...

Hostile Archives

Research
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Dr Dora Vargha considers archives, the destruction of records, and researching the history of international organisations. A couple of weeks ago I participated in a...

Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century

Research
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Centre member Valeska Huber introduces her new research group at the Center for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin, and provides details of two PhD positions...

Women and the History of International Thought

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Centre member Katharina Rietzler introduces her new research project, Women and the History of International Thought, and provides details of postdoctoral and PhD opportunities attached...