Book ID: CBB001321238

Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012)

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Mazower, Mark (Author)


Penguin


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xix + 475 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower's Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension---the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.

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Description On the notion of global cooperation over the last two centuries.


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Review Agar, Jon (2013) Review of "Governing the World: The History of an Idea". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 827). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Herrala, Meri Elisabet
Mausbach, Wilfried
Gassert, Philipp
Zaidi, Waqar H.
Wöbse, Anna-Katharina
Vera, Hector
Concepts
International relations
International cooperation
Science and politics
Science and government
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Political science
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
Places
United States
Europe
Germany
Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
West Germany
Institutions
League of Nations
United Nations
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
Université de Strasbourg
International Polar Year (1882-1883)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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