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NGOs A New History of Transnation - DAVIS
Thomas Davies
NGOs
A New History of
Transnational Civil Society
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1.╇ Emergence to 1914 19
â•…â•›Early History to 1767 20
â•…â•›The Emergence of Modern INGOs, 1767–1869 23
â•…â•›Consolidation of the ‘First Wave’, 1870–1900 44
â•…â•›P roliferation and Decline, 1901–1914 65
2.╇1914–1939 77
â•…â•›The First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the
â•… Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society, 1914–1919 78
â•… The Development of Transnational Civil Society in the 1920s 92
â•… From Consolidation to Collapse, 1930–1939 106
3.╇ 1939 to the Present Day 123
â•…â•›The Second World War, the Onset of the Cold War and the
â•… Division of Transnational Civil Society 124
â•…â•›The Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society from the
â•… 1960s to the 1980s 141
â•… From Coalitions to Crisis, 1990 to the Present Day 154
Conclusion 175
â•…â•›The Three Waves of Transnational Civil Society 177
â•…â•›Explaining the Three Waves 178
â•…â•›Future Possibilities 181
Notes 183
Further Reading 243
Index 269
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author benefited from the help of many people in writing this book.
He is particularly grateful to Professor Martin Ceadel at New College,
Oxford, for suggesting this avenue of research. Colleagues at the Univer-
sity of Oxford and City University London provided stimulating
�environments in which the research for this volume was undertaken.
The author was supported by a period of sabbatical leave and a Pump-
€
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A New Perspective
Beyond its exploration of the deep historical roots of transnational civil
society, this volume aims to provide a new perspective through its con-
sideration of transnational civil society’s origins beyond the ‘West’,
through its unprecedented scope, and by evaluating how transnational
civil society developed in a cyclical pattern.
â•… As John Hobson has argued, traditional accounts of world history have
had a tendency to underplay the significance of developments beyond the
European context in the origins of modernity.25 This has been the case
with existing studies of the history of transnational civil society as it has
for other institutions of international relations.26 In his account of the evo-
lution of transnational humanitarianism, for instance, Michael Barnett
has claimed that it ‘is rooted in Western history and globalized in ways
that were largely responsive to interests and ideas emanating from the
West’.27 This volume, on the other hand, reveals the crucial role played by
ideas and institutions beyond the ‘Western’ context in the development of
transnational civil society, especially from the late eighteenth century.
â•… Although the comparative scarcity of source materials on INGOs
beyond the ‘West’, particularly in the earlier years of their development,
has limited the degree of coverage in this volume of the evolution of
transnational civil society outside Western Europe and North America,
this volume takes greater consideration of the ‘Eastern’ origins of trans-
national civil society than much existing work. More generally, the range
of INGO activities covered is broader than in any previous study, and
includes business and professional associations, revolutionary and scien-
tific societies, and religious and pan-nationalist groups, in addition to the
traditional areas of concern such as development, environmentalism, fem-
inism, humanitarianism, human rights and peace.28
â•… A key feature of existing literature on transnational civil society which
this volume aims to challenge is the assumption that in the present day
transnational civil society is of unprecedented scale and significance.
Â�Jessica Matthews’ claim that ‘increasingly, NGOs are able to push around
even the largest governments … The steady concentration of power in
the hands of states that began in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia is
over’ is symptomatic of the optimism surrounding the topic in the late
1990s.29 Although some authors since then have questioned the impact
and significance of INGOs and transnational civil society in the present
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day,30 claims that there has been an ‘epic and irreversible’ shift in favour
of such actors which have ‘sturdily emerged’ have persisted.31 This vol-
ume aims to show not only that the impact of transnational civil society
in the past has been far more considerable than traditionally assumed,
but also that this influence fluctuates considerably, and continues to do
so in the present day.
â•… Amongst the most common claims in much of the existing literature
on INGOs and transnational civil society is that it has developed in a lin-
ear fashion. For example, in one of the leading textbooks on INGOs
Ahmed and Potter claim that there has been ‘a steady increase … with a
marked upturn after World War II’,32 while the titles of numerous arti-
cles and books on global and transnational civil society portray the topic
of investigation as being the ‘rise’ of the phenomenon.33 This is the case in
respect of works of history as well as political science.34 This volume, on
the other hand, suggests a cyclical pattern, and argues that transnational
civil society has developed in three waves with peaks reached in the decades
preceding the two World Wars, and at the turn of the millennium.35
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â•… The other principal piece of evidence used to support arguments con-
cerning the unprecedented ‘rise’ of INGOs and transnational civil soci-
ety is the way in which they have become ‘seemingly more efficacious’
in the post-Cold War period, with reference to examples such as the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jubilee 2000.38 How-
ever, the task of separating the role of civil society organizations as
opposed to other actors in examples of apparent impact such as these is
exceptionally difficult. Even harder to determine is the relative impor-
tance of the developments attributed to transnational civil society actors
in the post-Cold War era in comparison with earlier periods of history.
Do the apparent achievements cited in this paragraph from the post-
Cold War era compare in scale to earlier apparent achievements dis-
cussed later in this volume, such as the abolition of the slave trade, the
creation of the League of Nations and the enfranchisement of women
in many countries?
â•… As Anheier has argued, measuring transnational civil society is an
‘immense’ task, which is not helped by a ‘statistical world order’ centred
around national units of assessment.39 A short history such as this can-
not cover the immense range of possible means of assessing the dimen-
sions of the phenomenon. However, this book does aim to adopt a much
broader perspective on the evolution of transnational civil society than
the limited focus upon INGO numbers and campaign impact that has
dominated recent work on the subject.
â•… Given the emphasis of ‘participation’ in contemporary assessments of
transnational civil society, an aspect of the evolution of transnational civil
society that this volume will consider is membership of INGOs and par-
ticipation in transnational civil society campaigns. Units of analysis such
as these may reveal an evolutionary path that is far from linear. For
instance, the international petition to which the greatest proportion of
the world’s population adhered was not the much-celebrated Jubilee 2000
petition of the late twentieth century, or even the ‘Live 8 List’ of the early
twenty-first century, but a petition for international disarmament circu-
lated by women’s organizations in the early 1930s.40 As this study will
also show, the memberships of some of the most prominent INGOs have
also declined significantly in recent years, and an even greater decline
may be evident if memberships as a proportion of global population are
taken into account.
â•… A further means of gaining insight into the state of transnational civil
society at any time may be, as Anheier has suggested, ‘civility … a com-
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less, it is hoped that the central focus of this work on INGOs, with their
common characteristics of basic organizational form over time, provides
a degree of consistency of focus throughout the more than two centuries
covered in this volume.
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Associations, has also been referred to. The Annuaires de la Vie Interna-
tionale of the early twentieth century, the Handbooks of International Orga-
nizations of the League of Nations period, and the Yearbooks of International
Organizations of the post-war era are the most comprehensive surveys
of the state of INGOs and transnational civil society of their respective
periods, and therefore have been key source materials for this study.
â•… The range of possible sources on the evolution of transnational civil
society is vast, and each form of source material is limited. Records kept
by organizations, whether governmental or non-governmental, are likely
to reflect the perceived interests of those working for the organizations;
and information on wealthy, formal actors from developed countries is
much more readily available than that on less well-resourced, informal
actors from developing parts of the world. Nevertheless, through its use
of selected material from the broad range of possible primary sources men-
tioned here, it is hoped that the research upon which this study is based
overcomes the limitations of reliance upon any one form of source mate-
rial. Relevant existing secondary literature has also been referred to, and
is summarized in the further reading suggestions at the end of this book.
Chapter Outline
This volume dedicates a single chapter to each of the three principal ‘waves’
of transnational civil society activities: emergence to 1914, 1914–1939,
and 1939 to the present day. Each chapter has a broadly common tripar-
tite structure, commencing with an evaluation of the emergence of each
wave and the factors facilitating it, followed by an assessment of the peak
of the wave, and concluding with a discussion of the decline and the fac-
tors underpinning that decline. Within each chapter, special attention is
paid to the creation of notable new INGOs in each phase, and to repre-
sentative material to illustrate the scale and impact of transnational civil
society in each period, as well as the factors responsible for that scale and
impact. Each of the major sectors of INGO activity are covered, includ-
ing communications, development, education, environment, health,
human rights, humanitarianism, labour, law, peace, professions, recreation,
service, sport, standardization, women and youth. While profit-making
corporations are excluded from the analysis, non-profit-making INGOs
set up to represent business, such as the International Chamber of Com-
merce, are included. In addition, although religious institutions such as
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the Roman Catholic Church are not the key focus of this volume, reli-
gious orders such as the Order of St John and religious sects such as the
Quakers are mentioned, and some religious INGOs such as the World
Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations are included due to their
pioneering role in the development of transnational civil society.
â•… The first chapter commences with a discussion of early INGOs and
associational activities predating the development of contemporary trans-
national civil society. The main analysis begins in the late eighteenth cen-
tury, and the first chapter assesses the many new INGOs that developed
between the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries that existing
studies have tended to neglect.70 It looks at the factors that made possi-
ble the development of transnational civil society in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries and evaluates the origins of INGOs in this period,
including the influence of interactions between East and West. Amongst
the aspects considered are activism in respect of both African and ‘white’
slavery, the early humanitarian, labour and women’s movements, and the
first scientific societies and international business, professional, standard-
ization and sporting associations. It is argued that a peak was reached at
the onset of the twentieth century, with transnational peace activism at
the Hague Conferences and the emergence of the Union of International
Associations. It is emphasized that the development of transnational civil
society occurred in parallel with the development of the nation-state,
and that aspects internal to transnational civil society contributed towards
its decline in the build-up to the First World War.
â•… The second chapter covers one the most neglected periods of the his-
tory of transnational civil society and INGOs: that between the two
World Wars.71 Contrary to conventional wisdom, it reveals the great
breadth and scale of transnational non-governmental activities that devel-
oped after the First World War and which peaked at the time of the
World Disarmament Conference in 1932–4. The role of transnational
civil society in the formation of the League of Nations and the Interna-
tional Labour Organization is discussed, as is the subsequent role of these
organizations in providing opportunities for transnational civil society.
The emergence of new INGOs in fields such as business, humanitarian-
ism, health and education is covered, and the transformation of INGOs
into stronger institutions is evaluated with reference to examples such as
the International Chamber of Commerce. The scale and impact of trans-
national civil society in this period is evident in the relief efforts in the
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aftermath of the First World War, work for the protection of minorities,
anti-colonial and Islamic social movement organizations, and transna-
tional disarmament activism. As in the previous chapter, the develop-
ment of highly ambitious transnational coalitions just before a subsequent
collapse of transnational civil society activities is discussed, as are the fac-
tors contributing towards the decline, including the activities of INGOs
such as those in the movement for disarmament.
â•… The period from the Second World War until the present day is the
focus of the third chapter. It highlights the dual role of the Cold War as
a factor not only splitting transnational civil society (such as in the case
of the labour movement), but also providing the conditions under which
considerable integration could take place within the Cold War blocs and
which could form a basis for the strengthening of transnational civil soci-
ety in the long term. The emergence of new development organizations
such as Oxfam, new human rights organizations such as Amnesty Inter-
national, and new environmentalist organizations such as Friends of the
Earth is used to illustrate the developing scope of transnational civil soci-
ety, and the creation of regional organizations such as the Afro-Asian
People’s Solidarity Organization is used to illustrate the broadening geo-
graphical scale of transnational civil society. The interactions of INGOs
with intergovernmental organizations including the United Nations and
the World Bank are discussed, as is the role of transnational civil society
in decolonization. The apparent peak of transnational civil society in the
1980s and 1990s is illustrated with reference to examples including the
movement against nuclear weapons, the ‘revolutions of 1989’, and the
campaigns surrounding baby milk substitutes and the banning of land-
mines, as well as the role of INGOs in the development of the internet.
Contrary to traditional portrayals of the evolution of transnational civil
society in this period, this chapter proceeds to a discussion of how trans-
national civil society may have declined in the twenty-first century, and
evaluates the factors underpinning that decline, including the actions of
transnational civil society actors. The chapter concludes with a discus-
sion of the possible turning point of transnational civil society in the sec-
ond decade of the twenty-first century.
â•… The final chapter sums up the volume’s findings on the role of trans-
national civil society in history and the way in which it has evolved. It
recapitulates the key characteristics of each period considered in the pre-
ceding chapters, and the factors responsible for explaining them. The
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the outbreak of the First World War. In each phase, the role of both exter-
nal and internal factors in explaining the expansion and decline of trans-
national civil society is evaluated.
â•… By far the most numerous of the ancient forms of INGO that survive
into the present day are transnational religious orders (RINGOs).
Although its records date only to the sixteenth century, the oldest may
be the Sovereign Constantinian Order, which purports to have been
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Association of Charities describes itself as ‘the first lay women’s organ-
isation in the world’,14 now with over 250,000 volunteers in more than
fifty countries.15 Although the present international organization was cre-
ated in 1971, the International Association of Charities traces its origins
to a ‘Confrérie de la Charité’ established by Saint Vincent de Paul in
Châtillon les Dombes in 1617, composed of lay women aiming ‘to visit
and to nourish the sick poor’.16 It claims to have ‘internationalized’ by
1634 with the establishment of sister organizations in both France and
Italy.17 The organizations established by Saint Vincent de Paul continued
a tradition of Catholic confraternities and guilds that may have preceded
the 410 sack of Rome, including some that had charitable objectives.18
â•… Of even deeper roots are Christian missionary activities, which devel-
oped from the first century AD.19 By the seventeenth century, the mis-
sionary work of Roman Catholic religious orders such as the Jesuits was
paralleled by that of first Protestant missionary societies, many of which
survive to the present day, such as the New England Company (formed
in 1649) and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK,
formed in 1698).20 Christian missionaries were also confronted with
increasingly organized oppositional bodies such as the All Indian Pueblo
Council, which traces its origins to the first recorded meeting with the
conquistadores of 1598, and which appears to have been well organized
by 1680, although the current structure dates to the 1920s.21 Missionary
bodies such as SPCK were to be important in providing models of orga-
nization later adopted by INGOs with secular objectives, notably the
creation of ‘auxiliary societies’ in multiple countries.
â•… Although the great majority of INGOs dating to before the mid eigh-
teenth century were of religious origin, there were other notable forms of
association. Some of these adopted quasi-religious forms, such as frater-
nal secret societies. Freemasons developed across state boundaries; the
Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717, for instance, and boasted
several lodges beyond Britain and the Empire by 1740.22 In the educa-
tional sector, ancient universities would attract scholars and students from
multiple countries, and the ‘scientific revolution’ that took place in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was accompanied by the develop-
ment of associations of scholars. London’s Royal Society, for example, was
established in 1660 and developed a pan-European fellowship.23 In the
commercial sector, the establishment of ‘colonies’ and ‘consulates’ by mer-
chant guilds in other countries was common practice.24 So too was the
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â•… Amongst the most neglected but also most influential processes tak-
ing place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was the
expanding interchange of ideas between East and West. This was to play
a vital role in the development of novel INGOs in the Atlantic world in
this period, especially in the origins of secular humanitarian organiza-
tions on a transnational basis. An example is provided in the far-reach-
ing network of lifesaving or ‘humane’ societies that developed at this time.
The first of these to be established in the Atlantic world was the Society
for the Recovery of the Drowned, formed in Amsterdam in 1767.26 This
organization promoted life-saving resuscitation techniques originating
in China in the Middle Ages but which by the mid eighteenth century
were being taught at the University of Leiden.27 The first humane soci-
eties in China, in contrast, may date to the 1300s.28 The oldest for which
records exist is the Chinkiang Association for the Saving of Life, which
was reputedly ‘established in 1708 by a committee of benefactors, whose
names have been handed down to posterity in a laudatory tablet which
is still to be seen at Tantu.’29 By the 1790s lifesaving societies had been
established in London, Lisbon, Vienna, Copenhagen and Algiers, as well
as many locations in British Imperial territories and the United States.
In addition to forming a transnational network, many of these organi-
zations included ‘honorary members’ in foreign countries, and many
extended their assistance to people of any nationality.30
â•… Exchange of ideas between East and West was also significant in the
development of the revolutionary associationalism that evolved on a
transnational basis in the late eighteenth century. Amongst the literature
of the French Revolution was a Republican Koran, written by Joseph-
Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau,31 and the perceived example of
Â�Turkey—where it was thought by some at the time that ‘the moment
that the tyrant begins to lay a heavy hand upon the many, the Mussulmans
run instantly to arms’—appears to have motivated European revolution-
aries.32 The transnational and transatlantic dimensions of the American,
French and Haitian revolutions were considerable, and included the activ-
ities of transnational revolutionaries such as Tom Paine and Claude
Fournier, as well as of transnational associations and networks including
freemasonry.33 A particularly significant revolutionary association was
the Paris-based Universal Confederation of the Friends of Truth, or
Â�Cercle Social, which claimed to be a ‘cosmo-political organization’ with
affiliates in Dublin, Geneva, Genoa, Hamburg, London, Philadelphia
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In the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the diversification of
INGOs and transnational civil society expanded further. In the area of
health, this period saw the formation of the Royal Jennerian Society for
the Extermination of the Small-Pox, instituted in 1803. Although this
organization concentrated its vaccination efforts in London, from the
outset its organizers hoped that ‘the Small-pox may be speedily exter-
minated from this kingdom, and ultimately from the whole earth’.47 In
1806 Dr Lettsom claimed of this organization that ‘by its efforts not only
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these kingdoms, but nearly all parts of the world, have been supplied with
this salutiferous dew of heaven, the good effects of which will, I hope, be
related by some person more competent to its history’.48 A revived ver-
sion of this organization boasted in 1817 of its widespread honorary
members, including the Emperors of all the Russias and Austria, the
Kings of Bavaria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia,
Sardinia, Saxony, Spain, the Two Sicilies, Sweden and Wirtemburgh, the
Ottoman Sultan, the Presidents of Switzerland and the United States,
the Pope, the Mughal Emperor of India, the Pacha of Baghdad, and the
Council of the Five Nations of the Indians of North America.49 The
report of that year revealed both the extent and the limits of its cosmo-
politanism in its claim that ‘the life preserving cause of vaccination is
now extended to every land. The simple Indians in their forests, the
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Mussulmans, with all their prejudices, and the Heathens with all their
superstitious antipathies, learn to appreciate and adopt the practice which
saves them from sufferings and death.’50 While the Royal Jennerian
Â�Society showed success in gaining impressive ‘protectors’ around the
world, another early-nineteenth-century humanitarian organization, the
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline that was formed in
London in 1817, is notable for its success in securing the formation of
auxiliary societies abroad, including in France and Russia by 1820.51
â•… The Congress of Vienna provided an early opportunity for non-gov-
ernmental associations to petition an intergovernmental meeting,
although it should be noted that individuals had petitioned intergov�
ernmental meetings since at least the Congress of Breda in 1667, and
Quakers lobbied the Congress of Nijmegen in 1678.52 At the Congress
of Vienna, representatives of German Jewish communities requested rec-
ognition of Jewish minority rights in German states and representatives
of German booksellers asked for press freedom and literary property to
be recognized, and these were taken into account in the federal consti-
tution that was drafted for Germany.53 Within Britain, anti-slavery cam-
paigners gathered almost 1 million signatures to 800 petitions for the
abolition of the slave trade to be among Britain’s demands at the
�Congress.54 The British delegation responded, but the outcome was a
somewhat vague ‘Declaration of the Powers on the Abolition of the Slave
Trade’ that noted that ‘the public voice, in all civilized countries, calls
aloud for its prompt suppression’.55
â•… The year 1815 is also notable for the formation of the first peace soci-
eties. Opposition to war amongst those of Christian faith may be traced
back to the early Church and re-emerged in Europe in a series of sects
from the Waldenses in 1170 onwards, including the Swiss Brethren from
the 1520s and the Quakers from 1661.56 It was not until 7 June 1814,
however, that the earliest known meeting to create a modern peace soci-
ety took place in London.57 Before a society could be formally estab-
lished in Britain, the first three peace societies were founded in the United
States: in New York in August 1815, and Ohio and Massachusetts in
December 1815.58 The following year, the Society for Abolishing War
and the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace
were formed in London.59 The founders of the first peace societies were
members of religious groups such as Quakers and Unitarians, and the
development of peace activism was facilitated by the geographically rel-
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atively secure position of the United States and Britain, their compara-
tively liberal political cultures, and by the general decline of fatalism in
Europe that had taken place in the eighteenth century.60
â•… The period following the Congress of Vienna, given the reestablish-
ment of conservative regimes across Europe, was one in which novel
INGO formation was constrained. There were exceptions, however. Two
pioneering internationalists in France and Britain, Marc-Antoine �Jullien
de Paris and Robert Owen respectively, experimented in creating their
own international organizations. Since 1801 Jullien had put forward an
idea for a ‘Société Encyclopédique’ that was intended to centralize knowl-
edge from all fields.61 After the Napoleonic Wars, this dream became
partially realized with the formation of a Revue Encyclopédique and its
accompanying Société, building on Aubin-Louis Millin’s Magasin Ency-
clopédique and Annales Encyclopédiques of 1795–1818.62 The Revue
appeared from 1819 and was intended to ‘become a means of open cor-
respondence between the … learned of all countries’,63 and the monthly
dinners of the Société that took place from 1818 ‘united successively at
the same table not only the editors and collaborators of the Revue and
their numerous correspondents but also distinguished men of all nations’.64
After the collapse of the Revue following the July revolution, Jullien
revived the Société as the Société de l’Union des Nations, ‘whose sole
and noble objects were to excite that holy spirit of emulation which
tended to make man kind and sociable to man—to eradicate national
prejudices—and, by the frequent collision of intellect, to promote peace
and good-will throughout the earth, by unitedly and mutually advanc-
ing the progress of civilization and improvement’.65 Robert Owen, for
his part, formed in 1822 a British and Foreign Philanthropic Society for
the Permanent Relief of the Labouring Classes ‘by means of education,
employment, exchange of productions, &c., in communities of 500 to
2000 individuals’, which attracted the affiliation of London-based ambas-
sadors of numerous European countries, as well as prominent British
philanthropists, but which achieved little else.66 In the 1830s, Owen went
on to create a highly ambitious ‘Association of All Classes of All Nations’
which aimed ‘to effect, peaceably, and by reason alone, an entire change
in the character and condition of mankind, by establishing over the world,
in principle and practice, the religion of charity for the convictions, feel-
ings, and conduct of all individuals, without distinction of sex, class, sect,
party, country or colour, combined with a well-devised, equitable, and
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mission, which will co-operate towards the fulfilment of the general mis-
sion of humanity. That mission constitutes its nationality.’75 Young Europe
was followed by other internationalist–nationalist organizations such as
the People’s International League, established in London in April 1847
‘to disseminate the principles of national freedom and progress; to
embody and manifest an efficient public opinion in favour of the right
of every people to self-government and the maintenance of their own
nationality; [and] to promote a good understanding between the peo-
ples of every country’.76
â•… At the same time, and closely related, the early international Commu-
nist movement developed amongst groups of German exiles in Paris and
later London. Formed in 1834, the ‘League of the Outlaws’ may have
been the first international revolutionary Communist organization, with
a largely artisanal membership based in Frankfurt and Paris.77 It lasted
four years and seems to have been influenced by the ‘charcoal burning’
secret societies that operated in Europe in the early decades of the nine-
teenth century, such as Buonarroti’s Universal Democratic Charbonnerie
that aimed ‘to unite all the friends of equality, whatever their country and
religion are, by a common centre’.78 The League of the Outlaws was suc-
ceeded by the better-known League of the Just, which split from the
League of the Outlaws in 1836;79 and subsequently by the Communist
League created in London in 1847, which expressed more explicitly the
aim of ‘the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the proletariat, the
abolition of the old bourgeois society which rests on the antagonism of
classes, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without
private property’, and was more clearly international in that reference to
membership of the League as being ‘made up of Germans’ was annulled.80
The Communist League was preceded by the Communist Propaganda
Society (later the Universal Communitarian Association) formed in Lon-
don in 1841 by John Goodwyn Barmby, who claimed to have brought
the term ‘communism’ to England from France after a visit in 1840 to
establish links between socialists in the two countries.81 Barmby is also
credited with ‘the first outline of an international communist organisa-
tion’ in his proposed ‘International Association for the promotion of
mutual intercourse among all Nations’ of 1840, for which a provisional
committee was created in Paris.82 An ‘International Association’ linking
Communist groups in Britain, France, Germany and Poland later mate-
rialized in the mid 1850s.83
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â•… Amongst the most intriguing novel INGOs of the 1830s was the
Société Générale des Naufrages et de l’Union des Nations created in
1835 in Paris by Caliste-Auguste Godde ‘de Liancourt’, which by the
1840s was being referred to as the Société Internationale des Naufrages
(International Shipwreck Society).84 According to its statutes, this orga-
nization was set up ‘with a view to uniting the benevolent of all coun-
tries’, embraced ‘every species of means for the saving of lives in the case
of shipwreck or inundations, and whatever concerns the commerce, indus-
try, and science of nations’, and aimed ‘to be composed of an indefinite
number of members of all nations’.85 It appears to have been set up under
the patronage of the French King and Queen, the Queen Regent of
Spain, the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves and the Duchess of Kent,
and was reported to have managed to attract to its membership ‘a great
number of admirals, ambassadors and ministers, and princes of all nations,
including Turkey, Spain and even China’.86 Amongst its intended meth-
ods were the setting up of affiliated establishments in major ports, the
award of prizes to those who by their actions had contributed to the sav-
ing of the shipwrecked, the facilitation of correspondence among soci-
eties for the shipwrecked worldwide, and the publication of a journal
(which in the 1840s was entitled L’Internationale) that aimed to cover
not only its actions in respect of shipwreck, but also literature, the arts
and sciences, commerce and industry.87 It was claimed that the Société
Internationale des Naufrages helped to establish over 150 humanitarian
organizations in Africa, America, Asia and Europe, from the United
States to China, Norway to Zanzibar.88 However, it was to decline pre-
cipitously following corruption allegations involving its secretary gen-
eral Godde in the early 1840s.89
╅ The 1830s came to a close with the establishment in 1839 of the �British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS), which unlike earlier anti-
slavery societies based in London looked explicitly beyond Britain and
its empire: English Quaker Joseph Sturge called the meeting that planned
the BFASS on 27 February 1839 with the objective of ‘promoting the
abolition of the slave trade throughout the world by moral and religious
influence and such means only as will not directly or indirectly sanction
the employment of an armed force for its prevention or suppression’.90
BFASS was established in large part due to a realization that success in
bringing about British legislation on the slave trade alone was insuffi-
cient: its founders resolved that ‘so long as slavery exists; there is no rea-
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sonable prospect for the annihilation of the slave trade’.91 Despite its
small and largely British membership, the BFASS’s international activ-
ities were ambitious from the outset: in 1840, for instance, these included
lobbying several governments, including interviewing the King of France
and deputations in Spain and Portugal, exchange visits with US activ-
ists, exposure of slave-owning companies, and the circulation of 8,000
pamphlets in Brazil.92 The Society noted that the following year the
�Quintuple Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was signed by
Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia.93
â•… Possibly the most notable activity of the BFASS in 1840 was its orga-
nization of the ‘General Anti-Slavery Convention’ in London in June of
that year. Around 409 campaigners may have attended, including visi-
tors from the United States, France and British colonies.94 At the open-
ing session, Daniel O’Connell declared the meeting to be ‘more important
than any which has yet assembled on the face of the globe’.95 The meet-
ing is of note not only for bringing together the anti-slavery movement,
but moreover for its influence upon other movements, especially in stim-
ulating the holding of international conventions in numerous issue-areas
of civil society interest during the subsequent decade.96 Whereas prior
to 1840 international conferences tended to consist primarily of Church
councils and post-war intergovernmental peace congresses, the interna-
tional non-governmental conventions of the 1840s are significant in pro-
viding the framework around which new INGOs could later be established
on a lasting basis.97
â•… Early suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton dated the origins of
the women’s suffrage movement to the 1840 General Anti-Slavery
�Convention, as the exclusion of women at this conference stimulated the
subsequent convening of the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 that effec-
tively launched the women’s suffrage movement in the USA.98 Stanton
recorded that when confronted with being denied the right to speak at
the general anti-slavery convention, she and Lucretia Mott ‘agreed to
hold a woman’s rights convention on their return to America, as the men
to whom they had just listened had manifested their great need of some
education on that question’.99 It should also be noted that women’s anti-
slavery organizations were amongst the most active in Britain and the
United States in the early nineteenth century;100 and that the earliest
women’s peace societies may date to the development by mid century of
Elihu Burritt’s Olive Leaf Circles.101
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â•… Timed to take place just after the second General Anti-Slavery Con-
vention, the first General Peace Convention was held in London in June
1843 and attended by 334 delegates, including twenty-six from the United
States and six from continental Europe.102 It was followed in August
1846 by the World’s Temperance Convention, also held in London and
featuring delegates from the United States and France as well as Britain
and its empire.103 It was proposed that both of these Congresses should
be followed by the formation of an international organization, but these
plans came to little.104 The 1846 Conference of the Evangelical Alliance,
however, led to the formation of a lasting body that was intended to ‘con-
sist of those persons, in all parts of the World, who shall concur in the
Principles and Objects adopted by the Conference’.105
â•… With a view to further developing in continental Europe movements
already popular in Britain such as for free trade and prison reform, the
international congress movement spread to the continent in 1846–7,
starting with the holding of the Frankfurt Penitentiary Congress in
�September 1846.106 Another penitentiary congress was held in Brussels
the following year, two days after the city had hosted the International
Congress of Economists, organized by the movement for free trade that
nine years later formed the International Association for Customs
Reform.107 The 1847 penitentiary congress is notable for resulting in the
formation in Paris of a Société Internationale de Charité ‘to bring together
those in different countries who concern themselves with the plight of
the impoverished and working classes’, but its activities were cut short
by the revolutionary activities of 1848.108
â•… 1848 had an impact similar to that of 1830: it has been argued that ‘in
1848 the concept of “association” became a general solution to the polit-
ical crises of the time’ and ‘innumerable new, openly political clubs and
associations appeared on the revolutionary stage in Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
and Milan.’109 Amongst the impressive array of organizations active in
1848 was the Société Universelle, which described itself as a ‘vast com-
mercial, industrial and agricultural association’ with a membership of
100,000.110 Although the revolutions failed to realize many of the aspi-
rations of democrats and liberals, this was a critical moment for the devel-
opment of alliances on a transnational basis among socialist and feminist
groups.111 For the peace movement, 1848 saw the first of a series of
�Universal Peace Congresses take place.112 It was also a turning-point in
the development of ‘pan-movements’—or ‘macro-nationalisms’—with
the convening of the first pan-Slav congress in Prague.113
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â•… Beyond the events of 1848, another key factor stimulating the devel-
opment of INGOs from the 1850s onwards was the convening by gov-
ernments of Worlds’ Fairs, commencing with the Great Exhibition in
London of 1851. Inspired by the Great Exhibition, for example, a Société
Universelle des Sciences, des Lettres, des Beaux-Arts, de l’Industrie et du
Commerce was set up in Paris that year ‘to create a means of union among
everyone, to realise a holy alliance among peoples through the establish-
ment of ongoing relations between intellectual and industrial leaders’.114
â•… The most success to be had in the formation of INGOs in the 1850s
was achieved during the Paris universal exhibition in 1855. A number
of international congresses were timed to coincide with this exhibition,
such as an international congress on charity that motivated the subse-
quent congresses on ‘Bienfaisance’ that took place in Brussels in 1856
and Frankfurt in 1857, the latter resulting in an effort to create a suc-
cessor to the Société Internationale de Charité in the form of an Asso-
ciation Internationale de Bienfaisance.115 Official congresses of statisti-
cians and of jurymen and commissioners of the exhibition both passed
resolutions promoting a uniform system of weights, measures and money
during the exhibition, and at a subsequent private congress an Interna-
tional Association for Obtaining a Uniform Decimal System of �Measures,
Weights and Coins was formed with British, French and American
branches.116 The universal exhibition in Paris in 1855 also stimulated the
creation in the following year of the Société Internationale des Études
Pratiques d’Économie Sociale to study the well-being of manual work-
ers in all countries.117
â•… Particularly significant is the formation in Paris in 1855 of an inter-
national federation by the Young Men’s Christian Associations, which
had developed internationally since the formation in London in 1844 of
a society ‘for the improving of the spiritual condition of young men
engaged in the drapery and other trades’.118 The creation of the World
Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations (WYMCA) in 1855
was of crucial importance in the history of INGOs, as it may have been
the first significant and lasting effort to form an international federation
of national associations.119 Whereas many INGOs of earlier foundation
had begun as national organizations that later expanded internationally,
or as small clusters of refugees based in a single city, the WYMCA con-
sisted of widely geographically dispersed member non-governmental
organizations in multiple countries from the outset. The conference at
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which the WYMCA was established was timed to coincide with the
World’s Exhibition in Paris, and brought together representatives of
YMCAs from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Holland,
Scotland, Switzerland and the United States. Swiss humanitarian Henri
Dunant, who was later the leading figure in the establishment of the Red
Cross movement, was central to the organization of the foundational
conference of the WYMCA.120 The conference participants’ motivations
for the formation of an international organization were highly varied,
and included the need to overcome divisions amongst the national asso-
ciations, to agree on common principles, to enable correspondence and
travel, and to transfer to the international level the already demonstrated
benefits of uniting local YMCAs in national bodies.121
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As the foregoing discussion has shown, the period between the 1760s
and the 1850s was a crucial turning point in the development of INGOs.
Prior to this period, INGOs had consisted overwhelmingly of religious
organizations, as well as a few other bodies such as fraternal and scien-
tific societies. In the era that approximately parallels the first Industrial
Revolution, by contrast, INGOs developed in a much wider range of sec-
tors of activity, with greater specialism of focus and often with a dimin-
ished role of religion and secrecy. The INGOs of 1767–1855, many of
which proved to be short-lived, mark a point of transition from the ear-
lier ancient forms of INGO and the better-known and commonly more
enduring INGO structures of the late nineteenth century onwards.
â•… Some of the novel INGOs of the 1760s-1850s, such as the first ‘Inter-
national Association’ of 1834, were international only in terms of their
concern for cross-border issues, rather than in respect of their composi-
tion. Others were international preponderantly in the sense of consist-
ing of groups of people of multiple nationalities either in single cities, or
a few cities—such as the ‘League of the Just’. Some were nationally-based
but at the centre of large intercontinental networks of societies, such as
the International Shipwreck Society. Others, such as the Society for the
Improvement of Prison Discipline, had auxiliary societies in multiple
countries, following the model of earlier missionary groups. Some, such
as the Royal Jennerian Society, had impressive lists of honorary mem-
bers from around the world on account of their work in multiple coun-
tries and continents. Many of them lasted only a few years, but some
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were to offer precedents for the more enduring INGOs of the later nine-
teenth century: Young Europe, for instance, had a pioneering federal
structure later taken forward on a more permanent basis by the WYMCA
and other INGOs of the later nineteenth century. While most of the
novel INGOs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were
to disappear after a few years, a few survive (often in highly diminished
form) to the present day, such as the Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress, and the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.
â•… Whereas few of the new INGOs of the 1760s-1850s were to be endur-
ing and geographically widespread, the 1860s witnessed the creation of
a significant number of INGOs that did endure—some in terms of con-
tinued existence, some in terms of legacy, and some in both senses. The
decade began with the creation of one of the oldest Jewish international
organizations, the Alliance Israélite Universelle.122 Formed in the con-
text of incidents such as the Mortara case, the Parisian founders of this
body in 1860 hoped that it would ‘work everywhere for the emancipa-
tion and moral progress of Jews’ and ‘provide effective support to Jews
facing persecution’.123 Its activities to this day have included both lobby-
ing and educational work, and it has stimulated the creation of analo-
gous bodies in other countries.124
â•… The year after the formation of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
was also the venue for the creation of one of the earliest scientific INGOs
in a specialist field: the Société Universelle d’Ophtalmologie, the precur-
sor to today’s International Council of Ophthalmology.125 The Société
Universelle d’Ophtalmologie followed the convening in Brussels in 1857
of the first international ophthalmological congress that aimed to ‘serve
as a means of uniting the opthalmologists of all countries … in a more
direct, more effective, more close, more lively fashion’ than had been
achieved by the Annales d’Oculistique.126 The year after the ophthalmol-
ogists formed their association, there was established in Brussels the
short-lived International Association for the Progress of the Social
Â�Sciences.127 This organization’s goals included not only ‘to develop the
study of social science’, but also ‘to ameliorate the physical and moral
condition of the working classes’.128
â•… A humanitarian organization of far greater significance was to be estab-
lished the following year: the International Red Cross. Central to its for-
mation was Henri Dunant, who had already played a vital role in the
creation of the WYMCA.129 Having formed groups of volunteers to assist
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â•… The year following LIPL’s formation, Marie Goegg founded the short-
lived Association Internationale des Femmes in order to support the
work of LIPL.146 The Association also aimed ‘to bring an end to the com-
plaints that are made from all directions about the ignorance of women’,147
and some consider the Association to be ‘the first international women’s
organization’.148 At the Association’s 1870 congress in Berne, Goegg pro-
moted women’s suffrage; and the organization may have been the earli-
est INGO to draw international attention to the equal pay issue.149
â•… The 1860s came to a close with the formation of one of the oldest
international business associations: the International Hotelmen’s Asso-
ciation, now known as the International Hoteliers Alliance, formed in
Koblenz on 11 June 1869 on the initiative of Cologne hotel-owner Otto
Caracciola.150 Further afield, the completion of the Suez Canal in that
year formed the context of an international commercial congress held in
Cairo, which passed resolutions not only concerning the canal (such as
‘that periodical reports be furnished by the Egyptian government to the
different chambers of commerce’) but also on more general matters (such
as that ‘a uniform monetary system … be established in Egypt, and also
in Europe’).151 This was the first in a series of international commercial
congresses that was to lead eventually to the formation of the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce.152
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By the end of the 1860s, the transition from ancient to modern INGOs
that had begun in the late eighteenth century had been completed. Non-
governmental organizations that claimed to be ‘international’ had become
not only more diversified and specialized than earlier INGOs, but had
also improved their capacity to organize on an enduring basis in multi-
ple countries. INGOs also increasingly reflected class divisions, with a
growing divide between workers’ and bourgeois organizations. Further-
more, the potential for further expansion and diversification of INGOs
was evident in the range of private international congresses held in the
1860s that dealt with issues extending beyond those promoted by the
INGOs already in existence. These included the first international con-
gress of societies for the protection of animals held in Dresden in 1860,153
a ‘universal’ artistic congress in 1861,154 the first international congress
of students in 1865,155 and the first international medical congress in
1867,156 as well as regular congresses on veterinary medicine, botany,
pharmacy, astronomy, and archaeology and anthropology.157
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â•… Most of the developments considered so far in the period from the
late eighteenth century until 1869 were located primarily in Europe and
North America, although, as has been shown, interactions between East
and West had been critical in sparking them. This period also saw con-
tinued expansion in the number of Christian missionary organizations
that concerned themselves with other regions, as well as of Western orga-
nizations dedicated to the study of Asia, such as the Société Asiatique
established in France in 1822, which was followed by similar societies in
Britain, the US and Germany.158 They were accompanied by an expand-
ing number of geographical societies, such as the Société de Géographie
formed in Paris in 1821 and the Royal Geographical Society formed in
London in 1830, which absorbed the African Association in 1831.159
â•… Further developments in respect of European interest in the wider
world included the British establishment in 1834 of a Society for
�Promoting Female Education in the East, which was set up in part in
response to concern about perceived ‘degradation of the female sex in
many parts of the East’ and the impression that in ‘the East’ women were
‘denied the first rudiments of learning’ and ‘generally regarded as an infe-
rior order of beings’.160 This organization, which promoted ‘Christian
education’, distinguished itself from the missionary societies that were
already setting up schools in Asia through its formation of an organiza-
tion of women whose ‘whole time’ was to be dedicated to the establish-
ment of schools for girls in Asia.161 Three years later, the Aborigines
Protection Society was formed in London ‘to oppose the exploitation of
indigenous peoples in British colonies’; it collaborated with BFASS until
the two merged in 1909.162 In 1866, Dunant put forward a plan for a
‘Universal and International Society for the Revival of the Orient’, which
he hoped would ‘lead to the resurrection of the Hebrew people as a ter-
ritorial nationality, to the liberation [sic] of the Holy Land from Islam
and to the restoration of the Holy Places’.163 The same year saw the for-
mation in London of the East India Association: founded by the first
South Asian British MP, Dadabhai Naoroji, and ‘consisting of Indians
as well as Englishmen’,164 its stated goals included ‘independent and dis-
interested advocacy and promotion by all legitimate means of the inter-
ests and welfare of India generally’.165
â•… The role of merchants, educators, secret societies and diasporas in trans-
mitting nationalist ideas between western Europe, the Habsburg empire
and the Ottoman empire in the early to mid nineteenth century is also
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***
The transformation of transnational civil society—the transition from
ancient to modern INGOs—that took place from the 1760s to the 1860s
had been made possible by a vast array of factors. Commentators at the
time felt that the world was going through spectacular changes. One
author writing in the Revue Encyclopédique in 1827, for instance, stated:
‘The world for us today is rich in great spectacles. Since all communica-
tions have become so easy among men; since the dangers, distances, and
difficulties of travel have almost disappeared; since trade is speedily con-
necting all climates, all industries and all the world’s products; since the
written thought circulates with ever greater speed, since books spread to
all parts of the world, and since all in return send us their journals, our
interest focuses on the entire human race … for each generation the hori-
zon of man has been extended, comprising successively his province, his
country, his neighbours, Europe, and today the world.’171
â•… Technological developments of the period, such as electrical telegra-
phy and the steamship, were often referred to by the organizers of the
international congresses of the early and mid nineteenth century. At the
World’s Temperance Convention in London in 1846, for instance, it was
remarked that ‘Nations are now brought near and the great empires of
the earth by the printing press and the steam engine are brought into
closer communication for all practical purposes than the different prov-
inces of this little island in the days of the Saxon heptarchy’.172 The eco-
nomic interdependence of the world was also noted, especially in the
emerging international workers’ movement: the Communist Manifesto
of 1847–8, for instance, argued that ‘in place of the old local and national
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tional Board’ was created for association football to agree rules for the
British Home International Championship; the Board was to become
the model for the International Rugby Football Board which was set up
four years after that.272 The turning point for the formation of interna-
tional sports federations was 1892, when international organizations for
cycling, rowing and skating were established: the primary objective of all
three of these organizations was the facilitation of international compe-
titions and agreement upon common rules. Two years later the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed by Pierre de Coubertin,
who had been planning the revival of the Olympic Games since 1889 ‘in
order to organize contacts between our young French athletics and the
nations that have preceded us in the way of muscular culture’.273 The con-
gress in Paris at which the IOC was created was preoccupied with the
definition of amateurism,274 and the first Olympiad that it organized in
Greece in 1896 attracted little press attention, had few visitors given the
poor transport connections to Greece, and of the 311 participants 230
were Greek—although this still involved a greater number of interna-
tional participants than had previous sporting occasions.275
â•… The official report of the 1896 Olympiad gave much of the credit for
the organization of the Games to the Greek Crown Prince Constan-
tine.276 A much more controversial example of the role of a royal in the
development of international civil society in the last three decades of the
nineteenth century is that of King Leopold the Second of Belgium.
Â�Leopold’s reign broadly coincided with the period during which Brus-
sels was the centre of internationalism in Europe, an opportunity he
exploited as a convenient disguise for his colonial ambitions. In 1876,
the year in which Brussels was the host city for the international exhi-
bition on hygiene and rescue work, Leopold invited explorers and geog-
raphers to a congress in Brussels ostensibly ‘to found if possible the
international work of the rest-houses and scientific posts in Africa’. A
quasi-non-governmental International African Association was estab-
lished purportedly ‘to the profit of science and philanthropy’277 but in
fact for Leopold’s personal profit, and within a decade he had ensured
that this organization became recognized as the government of Congo
and was transformed into the Congo Free State.278 The International
African Association was initially warmly received by humanitarians: the
Aborigines Protection Society even made Leopold its Honorary Presi-
dent, but by 1896 the Aborigines Protection Society was campaigning
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against the abuses that were occurring in the course of the exploitation
of Congo’s natural resources, reported to have included the trade in sev-
ered hands.279
â•… The following year a very different African Association was formed in
London by Trinidadian lawyer Henry Sylvester Williams. This organi-
zation of London’s black population may have been the first organiza-
tion to promote pan-African objectives.280 It aimed ‘to encourage a feeling
of unity … to promote and protect the interests of all subjects claiming
African descent, wholly or in part, in British colonies, and in other places,
especially in Africa’. This Association organized the first Pan-African
Congress in London, timed to coincide with the Paris Universal Exhi-
bition of 1900 in order ‘to take steps to influence public opinion on exist-
ing proceedings and conditions affecting the welfare of the native in
various parts of the world’. The conference, which included delegates
from Africa, America, England and the West Indies, not only trans-
formed the African Association into the ‘pan-African’ Association but
also issued an appeal ‘to the Nations of the World’ that called for ‘respon-
sible government for the Black colonies in Africa and in the West Indies’
and for the Congo Free State to become ‘a great negro state’.281
â•… Pan-Africanism was one of many ‘macro-nationalisms’ in the late nine-
teenth century. In the Americas, the Latin American governmental
�initiatives of the early nineteenth century were succeeded by the US gov-
ernment’s pan-American conferences from 1889. Pan-Atlanticism was
evident in the formation of organizations such as the Anglo-American
Association in 1871 and the Atlantic Union in 1897. In Europe, pan-
Slavism and pan-Germanism were the most influential ‘pan-movements’.
In 1894 the General German League that had been created in 1891 was
renamed the ‘Pan-German’ League ‘to awaken and promote racial and
cultural homogeneity of all sections of German people’ and to promote
‘continuance of the German colonial movement’.282 In East Asia, pan-
Asianism developed in response to the forced opening of the region to
European influence from mid century.283 In Japan the Society for Rais-
ing Asia was formed in 1880 and succeeded by the Asia Association, and
the East Asian Common Culture Association was created in 1898.284 As
for South Asia, the development of Indian national consciousness is evi-
dent in the formation in 1876 of the Indian National Association and
the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, and the creation
of the Indian National Congress in 1885.
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aims and common grounds of union’ speakers from a wide range of back-
grounds, including Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, Eastern
Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism,
Taoism and Zoroastrianism.294 Of further significance for transnational
civil society is the part played by a number of the participants in the con-
gress in the development of religious INGOs. Swami Vivekananda, who
spoke on Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions, for instance,
subsequently transformed the Ramakrishna Math into a transnational
religious order with centres in the West as well as in India.295 At the end
of the nineteenth century, an American Unitarian minister who had
helped organize the World Parliament of Religions—Charles Wendte—
became the first secretary of the International Council of Unitarian and
Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers, known today as the Inter-
national Association for Religious Freedom.296
â•… In Europe, transnational Roman Catholic religious orders remained
amongst the most numerous INGOs to be created in the late nineteenth
century. Other Christian groups also formed international bodies at this
time, including the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in 1875, the
World Methodist Council in 1881, and the Union of Utrecht in 1889.297
Christian youth organizations multiplied in this period too, with the
World’s Alliance of Young Women’s Christian Associations formed in
1894 and the World Student Christian Federation the following year.298
In 1878 the East London Christian Mission was transformed into the
Salvation Army: within a decade this organization had over 6,000 offi-
cers in Britain, Australasia, the Caribbean, continental Europe, North
America, South Africa and South Asia.299 The year when the Salvation
Army was formed also saw the relocation to India of the headquarters
of the Theosophical Society, an organization set up in New York in 1875
‘to oppose materialism and theological dogmatism … by demonstrating
the existence of occult forces unknown to science, in nature, and the pres-
ence of psychic and spiritual powers in man’.300 A somewhat contrasting
organization was set up in Brussels two years later: the World Union of
Free Thinkers which aimed ‘to facilitate propaganda for rationalist ideas
through an entente between all those who believe it necessary to liber-
ate humanity from religious prejudice and to assure freedom of con-
science’.301 Another organization, the International Union of Ethical
Societies which was formed in 1896, sought ‘to disentangle moral ideals
from religious doctrines, metaphysical systems and ethical theories’.302
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years after the World’s WCTU had been created. This organization’s
objectives were broader than those of the World’s WCTU: its constitu-
tion committed it ‘to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injus-
tice’.310 By the end of the nineteenth century there were National Councils
in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Argentina as well as the United
States.311 It was therefore more successful in internationalization than
the International Women’s Rights Congresses that took place in Paris in
1878 and 1889, the latter of which featured just seventeen delegates from
outside France.312
â•… As well as the promotion of women’s rights to participation in national
politics, one of the core themes of transnational activism concerning
women in the late nineteenth century related to their protection. An
example can be found in the movement against the practice of footbind-
ing in China, with the formation of anti-footbinding associations from
1874, amongst the most notable of which was the Natural Foot Society
set up by ten women of various nationalities in London in 1895.313
Another organization, the Ramabai Association set up by Indian �Christian
convert Pamita Ramabai in Boston in 1887, aimed to provide refuge for
child widows in India.314 In continental Europe, the International Union
of Friends of Young Women was set up in 1877 ‘to form a network of
protection around every girl obliged to leave her home to earn a living,
and so far as possible around every girl alone or in bad surroundings,
whatever her nationality, religion or occupation’.315 By 1900 there were
8,000 ‘friends of young women’, of whom the majority were in Â�Germany,
Switzerland and France, who gave girls departing their countries letters
of introduction to ‘friends’ in the girls’ destinations and pamphlets explain-
ing the Union’s services.316
â•… Given its transnational nature, the issue of sex trafficking was one that
attracted particular attention amongst cross-border activists in the late
nineteenth century. One key activist was Josephine Butler, who after tour-
ing Europe in 1874–5 set up ‘a “British, Continental and General
Â�Federation”, with a view to give practical form to the strong though
�hitherto, to a great extent, latent feeling of abhorrence of the system of
state-regulated vice already existing in many of the best minds in France,
Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and to arouse a powerful public opin-
ion in support of an agitation similar to our own, which has now com-
menced in those countries’.317 This organization became known as the
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for Peace, and the following year in the same city the Universal Alliance
of Women for Peace by Education, also known as the International
League of Women for General Disarmament, and in 1898 the Associa-
tion for Peace and Disarmament through Women.324 These organiza-
tions not only pioneered the promotion of general disarmament, but also
wider reforms of the international system, such as the ‘International Sen-
ate’ for the pacific resolution of disputes promoted by the International
League of Women for General Disarmament.325
â•… By this time, the peace movement more generally had had success in
forming more durable international organizations. As for many other
movements, Paris in 1889 was the turning point. That year the first of a
renewed series of Universal Peace Congresses took place in Paris from
23 until 27 June, organized by Lemonnier with assistance from Passy.326
Straight afterwards the Continental Hotel in Paris was the venue for the
first Interparliamentary Conference that Passy had helped to organize,
which brought together representatives from British, continental Euro-
pean, US and Liberian parliaments.327 The Universal Peace Congresses
were to be coordinated by an International Peace Bureau that was set up
in Rome in 1891,328 and the Interparliamentary Conference of 1889 was
the foundational conference of the Interparliamentary Union for
Â�Arbitration—two organizations that have survived to the present day.329
â•… Pursuit of international arbitration was central to the objectives of
international peace organizations in the late nineteenth century. This was
reflected in the names of a number of peace societies of the period, such
as the International Arbitration League and the International Arbitra-
tion and Peace Association in Britain. Also important in the movement
for international arbitration were organizations for international law that
developed in the 1870s.330 These included the International Law Asso-
ciation created in Brussels in October 1873, which included amongst its
aims ‘the settlement of disputes by arbitration’.331 It rivalled the Institute
of International Law that had been created in Ghent the month before,
with the ambitious aim ‘to become the organ of the legal conscience of
the civilised world’, as well as to promote ‘the maintenance of peace’ and
‘the gradual and progressive codification of international law’.332 Forma-
tion of the Japanese Society of International Law followed in 1897; it
claims to be ‘the oldest academic society in Japan in the field of law’.333
â•… The issue of arbitration, alongside that of disarmament, mobilized one
of the largest transnational campaigns ever to have been undertaken as
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Canada and Great Britain in 1912, the National Association of Rotary
Clubs of America was transformed into the International Association of
Rotary Clubs.355 It was later to be joined by international organizations
of Lions Clubs and Kiwanians.
â•… Further novel forms of INGO in the opening years of the twentieth
century included the International Union against Vivisection and the
International Central Bureau for the Campaign against Tuberculosis,
both formed in 1902; and the International Union for the Protection of
Infants and the Universal Society of the White Cross of 1907, both of
which made food safety a primary concern.356 That year, the International
Vegetarian Union was established in Dresden, an organization which
survives to the present day.357 A number of new organizations that mixed
governmental and non-governmental participation in this period, and
also survive to the present, reflected the technological developments of
the time, amongst them the International Institute of Refrigeration,
formed in 1909, and the World Road Association, created the following
year.358 In 1910 an International Office dedicated to the protection of
homeworkers was created in Brussels.359 Three years later the develop-
ment of an ‘Urban Internationale’ was evident in the formation of the
Union Internationale des Villes and the International Garden Cities and
Town Planning Association.360
â•… As for the trade union movement, a novel development at the onset
of the twentieth century was the creation of the first International
�Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres in Copenhagen in 1901,
which unlike earlier international trade secretariats was not confined to
a particular industry. This organization’s objectives were initially fairly
limited: ‘keeping the national trade union centres in touch with one
another, convening international conferences, preparing trade union sta-
tistics, etc.’361 This led to the group being dubbed a ‘post-box’ organiza-
tion, but it was nevertheless significant in helping develop the reformist
approach and greater independence of the trade union movement.362 In
Zurich in 1913 the International Secretariat was transformed into the
International Federation of Trade Unions, with wider objectives includ-
ing ‘the protection and advancement of the rights, interests and justice
of the wage-workers of all countries and the establishment of interna-
tional fraternity and solidarity’.363
â•… Beyond Europe the early years of the twentieth century saw the for-
mation of a range of new regional INGOs. Some were formed by Euro-
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tific initiatives at the beginning of the twentieth century, such as the for-
mation in 1903 of an International Association of Seismology to centralize
information on earthquakes.366 The International Association of Labour
Legislation created in 1900 formed the ‘first International Labour Office’
in 1901 and persuaded governments in 1906 to agree to ‘the first inter-
national labour conventions’, which dealt with the use of white phospho-
rus and women’s night work.367 The convening of a second Hague
Conference the following year may be attributed in part to the efforts of
the Interparliamentary Union in persuading Theodore Roosevelt to invite
the Tsar to take this initiative forward.368 Although the second Hague
Conference achieved little, it is notable for being the occasion upon which
peace activists held a parallel non-governmental conference alongside
the intergovernmental congress, which may have been the first of its kind;
and the International Council of Women and the Salvation Army were
both offered deputations.369 The year after the second Hague Confer-
ence, the international movement against Leopold’s exploitation of the
Congo—in which the leading INGO was the Congo Reform Associa-
tion (formed 1904), which supported the campaign in Belgium for annex-
ation of the Congo by the Belgian government—saw the transfer of
Congo out of Leopold’s hands.370 The following years saw non-govern-
mental participation in the drafting of the 1909 Convention with Respect
to the International Circulation of Motor Vehicles, the drafting in 1910
of an intergovernmental Agreement for the Repression of the Circula-
tion of Obscene Publications two years after an international non-�
governmental congress on the issue, and an intergovernmental Convention
respecting Measures for the Preservation and Protection of Fur Seals in
1911, after years of non-governmental campaigning.371 US government
actions spurred by Asian missionaries culminated in the Hague Opium
Convention of 1912.372
â•… Within sectors of transnational civil society in which INGOs already
existed, several enduring new INGOs were created in the opening years
of the twentieth century. Fourteen years after the creation in Washing-
ton, DC of the International Council of Women, the same city hosted in
1902 a conference at which was established the more explicitly suffragist
organization known today as the International Alliance of Women, the
constitutional aims of which were centred around information exchange.373
In the case of the environmentalist movement, the following year the
organization now known as Fauna and Flora International was estab-
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lished in London as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna
of the Empire, the ‘great object’ of which was ‘the formation of game
reserves or sanctuaries’.374 Three years later London was also the location
for the establishment of one of the most significant international organi-
zations for standardization: the International Electrotechnical Commis-
sion that aimed ‘to consider the question of the standardisation of the
Nomenclature and Ratings of Electrical Apparatus and Machinery’.375
â•… A number of lasting business INGOs were also created at this time.
In Brussels in 1903 the International Dairy Federation was established
to further the development of new techniques such as pasteurization and
to combat food fraud.376 The following year the International Textile
Manufacturers Federation was established at a congress of cotton-�
spinners in London, at which it was remarked that ‘the developments of
large combinations of labour … have rendered the position of individ-
ual employers, or even of small associations of employers, one of increas-
ing difficulty. We have also seen the development of great federations of
capitalists, and just as peace between nations is generally maintained by
being prepared for war, so in industry experience shows that complete
organisation of both employers and employed tends to ensure harmoni-
ous working’.377 A precursor to the International Chamber of Commerce
was established in Milan in 1906 in the form of an international com-
mittee in Brussels intended to coordinate the regular international meet-
ings of chambers of commerce that took place from 1905 onwards and
to implement their decisions.378
â•… Several significant international sports organizations that emerged in
this period are also worth noting. One particularly productive year was
1904, when the organizations that now coordinate Formula One, the
Speedway Grand Prix and the association football World Cup were set
up. Eight years later the International Association of Athletics Federa-
tions was established after it was noted at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic
Games that ‘hints have been made that Swedish interests, in particular,
were altogether too much considered in drawing up the lists of events’
in athletics and that a ‘standard programme’ as well as ‘uniform rules and
regulations for the competitions’ were needed in athletics in order that
‘all nations will be placed on an equal footing’.379
â•… Although some new INGOs of the early twentieth century proved to
be substantial and long-lasting, many more were relatively fleeting. In
the decade leading up to the First World War approximately double the
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were passed not only by the primary peace movement, but by many other
sectors of transnational civil society. The peace work of women’s interna-
tional organizations since the nineteenth century has already been noted.
As for the labour movement, at the time of the Second Balkan War an
emergency congress of the Second International in Basle in November
1912 passed a resolution demanding ‘peace in the Balkans, … war on
war, peace for the world’, building on an earlier peace resolution passed
in Stuttgart in 1907.388 The previous month, the international meeting
of chambers of commerce in Boston aimed to ‘exemplify and promote in
a practical way the motto expressed at the opening of the Liège Â�Congress,
“Commerce is Peace”’.389
â•… For some, such as Norman Angell, the international activities of labour
and business offered hope for a more peaceful world. In his well-known
work, Europe’s Optical Illusion, Angell asked: ‘if both capital and labour
are being pushed by the circumstances of their development into com-
plete internationalisation and coming to take no account of politico-
national rivalries, what classes can remain outside such a movement?’390
Angell argued that ‘the movement towards internationalisation may go
a long way in many activities without affecting the race for armaments,
unless there also takes place a rationalisation of our political concep-
tions’.391 However, his proposed means for achievement of this objective
reveals the thinness of his internationalism: he placed his faith in ‘the
practical genius of the English race’.392
â•… Much of the international work of labour and capital in the period
leading up to the First World War hardly promoted Angell’s vision of a
more harmonious future. The peace resolution of the Second Interna-
tional at Stuttgart in 1907, for instance, was passed in the context of a
speech by Rosa Luxemburg which stated ‘we must all think of the Great
Russian Revolution in connection with this point of the agenda … in
case of war the agitation should be directed not merely toward the ter-
mination of war, but also toward utilizing the war to hasten the over-
throw of class rule in general’.393 As for INGOs in the business sector,
many of those to be created in the opening years of the twentieth cen-
tury were not simply industry federations, but international cartels, such
as the International Rail Makers Association that was revived in 1904.
â•… In addition to the evident divisions between capital and labour that
were ultimately to contribute towards the Cold War, the nationalistic
tendencies that many have cited as a contributory factor to the First
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World War were a significant aspect of the movement for the formation
of INGOs of the early twentieth century. Hoffman compares civil soci-
ety of the turn of the century with earlier associational life as follows: ‘In
place of the lofty ideals of civic association that transcended the nation
but remained rooted in local sociability, international organizations
emerged that aimed to assert and organize concrete political or economic
interests, for example, of nation states’.394 This process may be seen to
have developed in the 1830s in Mazzinian associations such as Young
Europe. Early-twentieth-century nationalist organizations such as Young
Bosnia—which was responsible for the assassination that sparked the
First World War—looked to Mazzinian associations as a model for their
activities.395 Furthermore, the ideal of national self-determination was
promoted by many who purported to advocate a more peaceful world,
such as Angell, who argued that ‘peace under the Turks was equivalent
to war; the liberation of the Balkans was the corridor to civilisation’.396
Liberal INGOs of this period, such as LIPL, may therefore be vulnera-
ble to the accusation of holding what Michael Howard has termed ‘an
almost unconscious acceptance of the medieval concept of the just war’
in their advocacy of national self-determination.397
â•… It is also worth noting some other ways in which INGOs reflected the
development of nationalism in this period. For example, several interna-
tional organizations formed in the early twentieth century aimed to pro-
mote particular languages and cultures, such as the International
Federation for the Extension and the Culture of the French Language
established at Liège in 1905, and the English Association formed the
following year. While the activities of organizations such as these were
relatively benign, the same cannot be said of the international organiza-
tions for the promotion of eugenics. Amongst the most notorious was
the International Society for Racial Hygiene that was established in
�Germany in 1905 by Alfred Ploetz, who in 1933 was to acclaim Hitler
as ‘the man who had the will to implement racial hygiene’.398 Seven years
after the formation of the Racial Hygiene Society, the University of
�London hosted the First International Eugenics Congress with the
involvement of leading figures such as Arthur Balfour, Alexander �Graham
Bell, Émile Borel, Winston Churchill, Paul Doumer, Charles Gide, David
Starr Jordan, Reginald McKenna, Arthur Schuster and René Worms.399
To this Congress, Ploetz communicated a paper complaining of the
impact of Malthusianism on what he termed ‘the highly endowed Nor-
dic race’, and an International Eugenics Committee was established.400
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â•… The previous year the University of London had hosted the Universal
Races Congress that by contrast has subsequently been credited ‘as one
of an important number of agents in the development of liberal thought
… away from the Victorian consensus that there was a hierarchy or chain
of different racial stocks’.401 While much of the proceedings served to
reinforce racial stereotypes, the organizers intended the congress to aim
at ‘encouraging between the peoples of the West and those of the East,
between so-called white and so-called coloured peoples, a fuller under-
standing, the most friendly feelings, and a heartier cooperation’.402 Con-
siderable effort was made to ensure representation at the congress from
across the globe, each session attracting more than a thousand partici-
pants, and plans were made for a permanent secretariat and further con-
gresses, although no subsequent sessions took place.403
â•… Two attendees at the Universal Races Congress were French journal-
ist Jean Pélissier and Lithuanian exile Jean Gabrys, who after a chance
meeting upon their return to Paris decided to set up a Central Office of
Nationalities in October 1911.404 The Central Office of Nationalities fol-
lowed a similar path of development to the UIA: in June 1912 it orga-
nized an international conference on nationalities, and just as the Central
Office of International Associations was turned into the more ambitious
UIA, so the Central Office of Nationalities was converted into the more
ambitious Union of Nationalities (UON).405 Like the UIA, the UON
focused mainly on ‘scientific’ activities, the publication of a journal (the
Annales des Nationalités) and the convening of conferences. However,
while the UIA concentrated on facilitating relations among international
bodies, the UON hoped ‘to promote to the progress of universal and per-
petual peace’ through its work on behalf of different nationalities.406 Like
one of the earliest INGOs—Mazzini’s Young Europe—the UON was
intended ‘to promote the cause of national self-determination [which]
Pélissier saw … as a universal panacea that would solve all political prob-
lems’.407 Given its purportedly pacific objectives, the UON attracted to
its Comité de Patronage such notable figures as Nobel Peace Prize win-
ners Bajer and Fried, as well as LaFontaine of the UIA, which commis-
sioned the UON to report on the demands of nationalities for the 1913
World Congress of International Associations.408
â•… The pages of the Annales des Nationalités, however, reveal a very differ-
ent picture to the anticipated promotion of peace through national self-
determination, with numerous articles on the wars associated with the
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ing figures in this movement ‘fell into the mistake of assuming they were
living in a rational world’: preoccupied with planning for the anticipated
third Hague peace congress and third congress of international associa-
tions, they evinced not only ‘a wonderful and touching faith in human
nature’ but also ‘a remoteness from reality which is almost inexplicable in
view of what we know to have been the state of Europe at that time’.420
This remoteness from reality was reflected in the formation of multiple
INGOs in increasingly obscure issue-areas, the creation of INGOs of
INGOs such as the UIA to unite these organizations, and most especially
in the claim of the leaders of such organizations to be, as put forward in
the quotation with which this chapter opened, ‘the most representative
forces of the different countries in their own particular domain’.421
â•… It may even be argued that, through their promotion of nationalism,
some transnational civil society actors themselves encouraged the dete-
rioration of international relations in the first two decades of the twen-
tieth century.422 Michael Howard, for instance, has suggested that liberals
and socialists became ‘hypnotised by the apparent transformation of war-
mongering capitalists into a strong force for peace’ and so ‘underesti-
mated the true dangers’ stemming not only from ‘the balance of power
which they had so long denounced’ but also from ‘those new forces of
militant nationalism which they themselves had done so much to encour-
age’ and ‘which combined to destroy the transnational community they
had laboured to create’.423
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1914–1939
The period from the outbreak of the First World War to that of the Sec-
ond is often overlooked in existing work on transnational civil society,1
and it has commonly been viewed as a period of stagnation in associa-
tional life.2 Historical work on the international relations of the inter-
war era has tended to concentrate on the evolution of interstate diplomacy.3
Authors writing at the time on international affairs in the 1920s and
early 1930s, on the other hand, would commonly note ‘the impressive
number of societies, philanthropic, scientific, religious, fraternal and com-
mercial, that cut straight across frontiers and bring men together’ with
‘influence and results … too profound to be properly estimated’.4 As this
chapter will reveal, the scale of transnational associational life that devel-
oped from the First World War until the early 1930s surpassed that which
preceded the conflict. The first part of this chapter explores how, despite
the First World War’s initially detrimental consequences for much of
transnational civil society, it eventually helped facilitate the development
of a new generation of INGOs that aimed to address a wide range of
issues, including those arising from the conflict and its aftermath. The
Paris Peace Conference of 1919 provided a particularly significant oppor-
tunity for transnational advocacy, with labour, peace and women’s private
international associations, among others, having a significant impact upon
proceedings. The subsequent section of this chapter discusses the rapid
development of transnational civil society in the 1920s, and the expanded
range of INGO activities including interactions with the institutions of
the League of Nations and independent non-governmental policy ini-
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tiatives. The final part of this chapter looks at how in the 1930s—in a
similar pattern to that which took place two decades before—actors in
transnational civil society became detached from their circumstances,
with the development of large coalitions of INGOs that claimed to
Â�represent ‘the public opinion of the world’,5 as international relations
deteriorated and transnational civil society fragmented, contracted and
lost influence in the years preceding the Second World War.
The First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the
Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society, 1914–1919
Although the First World War was the occasion for the expansion in
volume of activities of some sectors of transnational civil society, such as
the international Red Cross movement, for most the onset of the con-
flict prevented many of their activities from taking place. As the pioneer
student of INGOs Lyman Cromwell White argued, ‘it was almost impos-
sible to hold international meetings’ during the conflict and ‘revenues
declined, and supporters were busy fighting’.6 Many INGOs of the pre-
war period were never to function again, such as the International Asso-
ciation of Academies, the International League of Anti-Vaccinators, the
International Neo-Malthusian Correspondence and Resistance Bureau,
the International Union against Vivisection, the International Union of
Ethical Societies, Internationalis Concordia, the Universal Scientific Alli-
ance, and many of the specialist esperantist and prohibitionist INGOs
that had been formed in the early twentieth century. The overall rate of
INGO formation also continued to decline by approximately one fifth
in each of the first three years of the conflict.7
â•… Apart from Europe, however, the rate of organizational formation was
relatively unaffected. On the day Germany declared war on Russia,
�Marcus Garvey established in Jamaica the Universal Negro Improve-
ment and Conservation Association and African Communities League
(UNIA) with a bold set of aims, including ‘to establish a universal con-
fraternity among the race’, ‘to assist in civilizing the backward [sic] tribes
of Africa; to strengthen the imperialism of independent African states;
to establish Commissionaries or Agencies in the principal countries of
the world for the protection of all Negroes, irrespective of nationality’,
and later ‘to establish a central nation for the race’.8 By mid 1919 Â�Garvey
claimed his organization had a membership of 2 million in thirty
branches, based mainly in the United States.9
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â•… Before US entry into the World War, concern for the humanitarian
consequences of the conflict was a significant motivation for INGO
�formation there. In October 1914 Herbert Hoover established the
�American Committee for the Relief of Belgium (CRB). This organiza-
tion was created in response to the danger of famine in occupied �Belgium
and northern France and was able to facilitate the maintenance of the
region’s population at subsistence level throughout the war: despite being
a non-governmental body, the CRB had a number of state-like capaci-
ties, including concluding agreements with governments and issuing its
own passports.10 The year after the CRB was formed, the American Com-
mittee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (now known as the Near East
Foundation) was organized in New York by Cleveland Dodge in response
to the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman empire, and it claims to have
contributed towards the saving of a million lives in the Near East dur-
ing the First World War.11
â•… The extent to which South America was insulated from the First World
War is reflected in the creation in that period of some of its most signif-
icant international sports federations, including the South American
Football Federation CONMEBOL that was formed in 1916 during the
first South American continental football championship in Buenos Aires,
and the South American Athletics Federation CONSUDATLE that
was established two years later. Another Latin American organization
to be formed in this period was the Latin American Odontological
�Federation, FOLA, established in Chile in 1917.12 Elsewhere, the year
1917 also saw the Bhandakar Oriental Research Institute established in
Pune,13 and the East African Women’s League formed in Nairobi.14
â•… Despite the setbacks of the conflict, a few new INGOs were also cre-
ated in Europe during the First World War. Amongst the most signifi-
cant was the ‘Zimmerwald Left’, established immediately after an
international conference that brought together anti-war socialists in
Â�Zimmerwald, Switzerland, in 1915. The ‘Zimmerwald Left’ aimed ‘to
serve as a clarion for the revolutionary confrontations that the war would
inevitably provoke’ and comprised Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek, Berzin,
Â�Borchardt, Platten, Höglund and Nerman.15 Radek introduced them as
‘the first, gradually awakening part of the international working class …
with every day our circle will grow, until we are a great militant army’.16
It has been argued that ‘the history of international Communism begins
with the Zimmerwald Left, and the “militant army” to which Radek
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1914 and aimed to bring together ‘the great religious organizations all
over the world in the question of international peace and goodwill’.19 The
following February, a World Union of Women for International �Concord
was established in Geneva ‘to spread internationalism by the establish-
ment of a means of communication between the women of the entire
world’.20 Two months later, an International Women’s Committee of
�Permanent Peace was created at a congress of more than a thousand
women at The Hague to ensure that women’s views would be represented
at the peace settlement that followed the war.21 Earlier in April 1915,
The Hague had hosted an international meeting of peace groups at which
a ‘Central Organization for a Durable Peace’ was formed and which
issued a ‘Minimum Programme’, including amongst its proposals ‘a per-
manent organization’ for the Hague Conferences ‘with a view to the
peaceful organization of the Society of Nations’.22
â•… By 1915 the idea of a ‘League of the nations of Europe’ that Â�Cambridge
academic Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson had advocated shortly after the
war had begun23 (and of a Society of Nations which Léon Bourgeois had
promoted since before the war)24 was gaining ground among peace advo-
cates. In October 1914 Dickinson brought together a group of pacifi-
cists—known after its chairman as the Bryce Group—that was to devise
plans for a league of nations, the first draft of which was circulated in
February 1915 and proposed limited measures for cooling-off periods
and mutual defence against attack.25 Three months later, in May 1915, a
League of Nations Society was formed in London with Anglican Liberal �
MP Willoughby Hyett Dickinson as its chairman, which promoted a
League of Nations whose member states would ‘unite in any action
�necessary for insuring that every member shall abide by the terms of the
treaty’.26 It was soon followed by the creation in June 1915 in the United
States of a League to Enforce Peace (LEP) with William Taft as its
�President, aiming to promote a League of Nations with its member states
committing to use ‘economic and military forces against any one of their
number that goes to war’.27 The LEP managed to persuade President
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tation in the central organ of the League should be, not by delegates of
the executive branches of the Governments of the constituted states, but
by delegates from the Parliaments representing all parties therein, ensur-
ing thus, not an alliance of Cabinets or Governments, but a union of peo-
ples’.41 Influenced by this resolution, a proposal for regular extraordinary
meetings of the League Council to include Parliamentary and NGO
representatives was considered during the deliberations of the Commis-
sion on the League of Nations on 13 February 1919, but was rejected.42
The international labour and socialist conference at Berne also passed
resolutions promoting national self-determination, labour standards, and
‘a permanent Commission, consisting in equal parts of representatives of
the States which are members of the League of Nations and of the Inter-
national Trades Union Federation’; a delegation was sent to Paris to pres-
ent these resolutions to the President of the Paris Peace Conference.43
The resolutions on labour standards and a permanent international labour
commission adopted at the Berne Conference had evolved from the
demands for ‘industrial clauses to be inserted into the peace treaty’
adopted at an inter-allied trade union conference in Leeds in 1916.44 The
proposal for an international labour office at the Leeds congress is said
to be ‘the germ of the ILO as we know it today’.45 At the Paris Peace
Conference, the President of the American Federation of Labour, �Samuel
Gompers, was appointed chairman of the intergovernmental commis-
sion on labour legislation that drafted a Labour Charter and the consti-
tution of the International Labour Organization (ILO).46 There was a
widespread perception that the creation of the ILO was ‘a response to
the revolutionary demands of labour in 1918–1919’.47
â•… Just as the international socialist conference in Berne finished, another
international conference in Paris brought together delegates from the
allied countries of the International Alliance of Women from 10 until
16 February 1919. President Wilson received a deputation from them in
the evening of the first day, and three days later he proposed the creation
of an intergovernmental commission to enquire into the international
concerns of women, but had to withdraw the proposal in the face of
Clemenceau’s opposition to discussion of women’s political status.48
Instead, women’s deputations were permitted to the intergovernmental
commissions on labour legislation and the League of Nations. An entire
sitting of the international commission on labour legislation was devoted
to hearing representatives of the Conference of Allied Suffragists, the
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they could render, … we believed that there was one sole and sacred
responsibility, and that was that we should co-ordinate our endeavors to
go on and do the work that could only be done by the co-ordinated effort
of the Red Cross organizations of the world’. In his hope that there would
be ‘a time when every nation in the world will have a Red Cross organi-
zation’ and ‘when the Red Cross organization will be recognized by the
people of the country as the national organization for the general good
and welfare of the people within that country’, Davidson emulated (more
realistically this time) the goals of earlier humanitarians such as John
Murray of the Society of Universal Good-Will of Norwich, who in the
eighteenth century ‘projected a centralized global charity with local
branches to administer relief ’.62
â•… Another significant humanitarian INGO to be formed in May 1919
was the Save the Children Fund. This emerged from the movement in
Britain in opposition to the continuation of the allied blockade after the
First World War. Whereas the Fight the Famine Council from which it
emerged concentrated on political advocacy against the blockade, the
Save the Children Fund aimed to provide direct relief to those suffering
as a result of the blockade.63 The goals of one of its founders, Eglantyne
Jebb, expanded to include developing ‘a powerful international organisa-
tion for child saving which would extend its ramifications to the remo�
test corner of the globe’, for which a Save the Children International
Union was created in Geneva in 1920.64
â•… One of the clearest examples of the contrast between the INGOs estab-
lished after the First World War and many of their nineteenth-�century
precursors is provided in the field of scientific collaboration. Many of the
numerous international scientific congresses of the period before the First
World War operated with either no permanent organization, or one with
few purposes beyond the convening of congresses. From July 1919 this
changed significantly. In that month the Inter�national Research Coun-
cil (transformed in 1931 into today’s International Council for Science,
ICSU) was established in Brussels ‘to co-ordinate international efforts in
the different branches of science …; to initiate the formation of interna-
tional Associations or Unions deemed to be useful to the progress of sci-
ence …; [and] to direct international scientific activity in subjects which
do not fall within the purview of any existing international associations’.65
It succeeded in facilitating the formation of international unions dedi-
cated to particular sciences, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geod-
esy, geography, physics and radio-telegraphy.66
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for the extended moral influence of the United States’.83 However, their
missionaries were to be ‘rejected abroad’, and the movement ‘finally col-
lapsed with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933’.84
â•… A very different agenda for global political transformation was put for-
ward on the other side of the world at the first Congress of the Commu-
nist International (Comintern) in Moscow from 2 until 6 March 1919.
The congress consisted of just thirty-five delegates ‘from so-called com-
munist parties in these smaller nations which had formerly comprised
the Russian empire … or … war prisoners or foreign radicals who hap-
pened to be in Russia at the time’.85 At the congress, Zinoviev appealed
not ‘to shrink from creating in the Third International the instrument for
creating an international Soviet republic’.86 Subsequently, the German-
Austrian, Swedish, Balkan and Hungarian representatives moved that ‘a
united, resolute, international organization of all communist elements’ be
founded to ‘destroy the rule of capital, make war impossible, abolish State
frontiers, change the entire world into one co-operative community, make
a reality of the brotherhood and freedom of the peoples’.87
â•… The founders of the Comintern aimed to ‘support the exploited colo-
nial peoples in their struggles against imperialism’.88 Such struggles were
gaining considerable ground in 1919, a year in which Amanullah
announced Afghanistan’s independence on 13 April (the day of the
�Amritsar massacre in India), the 4 May protests took place in Beijing,
and the Egyptian revolution occurred. In South Asia, Gandhi used saty-
agraha in opposition to legislation impeding the home rule movement,
and in the same year the pan-Islamic Khilafat movement was launched.
At the September 1919 All-India Muslim Conference, the partition of
the Ottoman empire was opposed and an All-India Khilafat Committee
established.89 In November of that year, the Jamiat al-Ulama-e-Hind was
founded in Delhi to ‘provide leadership according to the tenets of Islamic
law’ and for ‘strengthening contacts with the rest of the Islamic world’.90
In February of 1919, the First Pan-African Congress took place in Paris,
at which a permanent committee was established and a somewhat
restrained resolution called for League of Nations supervision of Africa.91
â•… The year 1919 had seen the formation of a greater number of INGOs
than any previous year.92 Many of them represented the development of
a new generation, more focused on practical action and possession of a
substantial membership and financial resource base, whether the 3 mil-
lion firms that the ICC claimed to represent, the more than 20 million
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Federation of Social Workers, 1928); women (e.g. Associated Country
Women of the World, 1929); and youth (e.g. World Organization of the
Scout Movement, 1920; World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts, 1928).100
â•… One of the principal reasons for the proliferation of INGOs and their
activities in the 1920s was the establishment of the League of Nations,
which provided an unprecedented opportunity structure for INGOs. The
League of Nations was—in the words of one of the drafters of its
Â�Covenant, Robert Cecil—‘a great experiment’; and this is reflected in the
early discussions of the League’s Secretariat regarding its relationship
with INGOs.101 Apart from a reference in Article 25 to ‘the establish-
ment and co-operation of duly authorised national Red Cross organiza-
tions’, the Covenant of the League of Nations did not specify how the
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â•… Amongst the first activities that required collaboration between the
League of Nations and INGOs was humanitarian assistance. The coop-
eration between the Red Cross movement and the League of Nations
High Commissioner for Repatriation of Prisoners, Fridtjof Nansen,
resulted in the repatriation of 425,000 prisoners of the First World War
from Russia in the two years from April 1920.111 Given Nansen’s success
in this field, the International Committee of the Red Cross suggested in
February 1921 that a League of Nations Commissioner for Russian ref-
ugees be appointed, and Nansen took up this position in September
1921.112 Another aspect of the relationship between the Red Cross and
Nansen was the response to the Russian famine: a conference convened
by the League of Red Cross Societies and the International Committee
of the Red Cross in August 1921 created the International Committee
for Russian Relief, of which Nansen was High Commissioner and in
which participated the Save the Children International Union and the
American Relief Administration, who proceeded to feed more than 10
million people.113 Two years later the League of Red Cross Societies and
International Committee of the Red Cross cooperated again, this time
to raise nearly 300 million Swiss Francs to assist the relief of the victims
of the Great Kanto earthquake.114 Lobbying from the League of Red
Cross Societies in the 1920s ‘led directly to the establishment of the first
ever international organization specifically set up to respond to disaster’:
the intergovernmental International Relief Union (IRU), established in
1927 ‘for the benefit of all stricken peoples’, which recognized the ‘free
cooperation’ of ‘all other official or non-official organizations that may be
able to undertake the same activities’.115 The idea of creating the IRU is
attributed to Giovanni Ciraolo of the Italian Red Cross, who was invited
to present his ideas to the Council of the League of Nations, and the ‘Red
Cross and other interested organisations were consulted at every step in
the preparatory work’ of the League of Nations for the IRU.116 The League
of Red Cross Societies has also been credited with being ‘largely respon-
sible for the establishment of ’ the International Union against Tubercu-
losis in 1920, the International Union for Combating Venereal Diseases
in 1924, the Standing Committee on the Health and Welfare of Seamen
in 1927, and the International Association for the Prevention of Blind-
ness in 1929, as well as establishing ‘in nearly all countries … first aid and
home nursing classes, health lectures, … child welfare centres, anti-malar-
ial and anti-tuberculosis dispensaries and sanatoria’.117
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â•… The relief work of organizations such as the Red Cross was accompa-
nied by that of international voluntary service organizations developing
in this period, such as the International Voluntary Service for Peace
(Â�Service Civil International), established in 1920 ‘to recruit men and
women from all countries who will give practical help in time of natural
catastrophes and will carry out voluntarily works of general utility’.118 In
the fifteen years following its foundation, this organization drew 2,500
volunteers from Europe, Mexico, India and Iceland to assist in relief after
more than twenty natural disasters in Europe and India.119
â•… Over the course of the 1920s, several INGOs were established dedi-
cated to assisting migrants. One of the first was the International
�Migration Service, created on the initiative of the American YWCA in
1921 on account of ‘the importance of providing assistance in Europe
for women and children heading for America from all countries’.120
Within a year the service had branches in eleven countries, and by 1934
it had assisted 20,000 families.121 In 1924, the Permanent International
Conference of Private Organisations for the Protection of Migrants was
set up with the objective of promoting ‘international cooperation for the
protection of migrants’ through the instruments of the League of
Nations.122 It was followed in 1927 by HICEM, which united the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society of New York, the Jewish Colonization Associa-
tion of Paris and Emigdirect of Berlin, and was to play an important role
in facilitating the emigration of Jews facing persecution in central and
eastern Europe.123
â•… Some of the most significant non-governmental humanitarian work
in the 1920s was carried out on behalf of children. The Save the �Children
International Union was the most prominent INGO in this field: within
five years of its formation in 1920 it had committees in forty countries,
£4 million had been raised, and relief had been provided to children in
thirty countries.124 Its most notable achievement was the Declaration on
the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the Assembly of the
League of Nations in 1924 and, along with the creation of the League’s
child welfare committee, is said to have ‘marked the passing of social
work for childhood into an official object of international relations’.125
The Declaration’s author, Eglantyne Jebb, alongside René Sand of the
League of Red Cross Societies, was also central to the formation of the
International Council on Social Welfare in 1928, which aimed ‘to facil-
itate personal contacts, to provide for exchange of information and to
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nizations that was set up by the IAW, WILPF, the World’s YWCA and
the ICW in 1925.139 The new intergovernmental organizations of the
League of Nations system were not simply seen as opportunities, but also
threats that needed to be addressed: the formation of the Open Door
International for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker in
1929, for instance, was motivated by the perception that ‘it became daily
clearer that the problems created by the work and influence of the Inter-
national Labour Organisation was a menace to women all over the world,
and that nothing but an international organisation would be in a posi-
tion to combat its attack on the woman worker’.140
â•… A further dimension to the expansion of women’s INGOs’ activities
in the 1920s was their effort ‘to become—or at least to appear—what
they called “truly international”, [when] they added members and national
sections in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa’.141 The activ-
ities of women’s groups beyond Europe and North America, however,
were not always successful. A particularly notable example is the move-
ment against female genital mutilation, which in Kenya was confronted
by considerable opposition from the nationalist Kikuyu Central Associ-
ation: it has been argued that ‘the campaign against female circumcision
became a symbol for colonial attempts to impose outside values’, and
thus may have had a counterproductive effect on those whom it was
intended to help.142
â•… The Kikuyu Central Association was one of many nationalist organi-
zations to emerge in the colonies of European countries during the 1920s.
The development of Indian nationalism is evident in the formation of a
range of All Indian organizations of sectors of the Indian population,
such as the All India Trade Union Congress in 1925 and the All India
Women’s Conference and the Federation of Indian Chambers of
�Commerce and Industry in 1927. Beyond colonial Asia, the Japanese are
credited with ‘the first attempt to give substance to a vague Pan-Asian
sentiment’, with the convening of Pan-Asian Conferences from 1920 by
the Japanese Pan-Asian Society.143 Two years later, the Eastern Bond
Association was formed in Egypt ‘to work for a close co-operation
between Egypt and all other Eastern peoples in their struggle for national
liberation, to establish an Eastern League of Nations, to promote cul-
tural, scientific, economic and social bonds among the peoples of the
East, to disseminate the “Eastern idea” and to rejuvenate the Eastern civ-
ilization’.144 The development of Afro-Asian consciousness was evident
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in Palestine, North Africa and Syria in the 1930s.150 Its activities were
preceded by those of the Young Men’s Muslim Association (formed in
reaction to and partly modelled on the World’s Alliance of YMCAs),
which was established in Egypt in 1927 and spread to many other Arab
territories; its educational and social welfare activities foreshadowed those
promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood.151
â•… Keen to exploit anti-colonial sentiment was the international Com-
munist movement, which facilitated the formation in Moscow in 1920
of the League of Islamic Revolutionary Societies that aimed ‘to make
the Muslims—who are used like slaves, enslaved and dominated by the
imperialists and capitalists—masters of their own fate under the leader-
ship of Turkey’.152 Although this organization is said to have ‘led little
more than a fictitious existence’,153 other Communist anti-colonial orga-
nizations were more substantial. The League against Imperialism, for
instance, set up in 1926, had branches in Britain, France, Germany, India
and the Americas.154
â•… Communist organizations were active in numerous aspects of transna-
tional civil society in the 1920s, including freethought (the Proletarian
Freethinkers), humanitarian aid (Workers International Relief and Inter-
national Class War Prisoners’ Aid), peasants (the International Peasant
Council), sport (the Red Sports International), tenants (the Tenants’
League), war veterans (the Union of War Veterans), and youth (the Young
Communist International).155 Amongst the most substantial was the Red
International of Labour Unions (Profintern) that was created in Moscow
in July 1921 ‘to fight against the corruptive ulcer, gnawing at the vitals of
the world labour union movement, of compromising with the bourgeoi-
sie’ and ‘to carry on decisive battle against the International Bureau of
Labour, attached to the League of Nations and against the Amsterdam
International Federation of Trade Unions, which by their programme and
tactics are but the bulwark of the world bourgeoisie’.156
â•… At the opposite extreme were organizations such as the International
Entente against the Third International, created in 1924 by Geneva-based
lawyer and ICRC delegate Théodore Aubert, aiming to bring down Com-
munism by ‘all lawful means’ and seeing itself as ‘the world centre of the
anti-Bolshevik movement’.157 It was set up to oppose the ‘constant attacks
of subversive groups … at the forefront of which is the Third Interna-
tional’ through ‘action at the international level and to defend the prin-
ciples of order, family, property and fatherland’.158 With branches in
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tions in this decade, such as radio broadcasting and air travel, were accom-
panied by new INGOs like the IBU and IATA, which played a key role
in their governance. The context of post-war economic recovery was in
part facilitated by INGO initiatives such as the ICC’s role in the Dawes
Plan. Also important were wider social and political developments, such
as the enhanced political role of women in many countries; as one fem-
inist pamphlet published in 1915 argued, an increased role for ‘woman’
in political life was significant because ‘she has neither part nor share in
the slaughter of humanity, and she may speak where man dare not …
because to her has fallen the task of bringing into the world those human
souls and bodies which in war are but food for cannon, [she] is able to
realize what man is not able.’196 The context of the First World War was
particularly important in the mobilization of INGOs in the decade fol-
lowing the armistice, given both the short-term humanitarian conse-
quences of the conflict that many INGOs aimed to address, and the
long-term desire to prevent the war’s recurrence which, through their
international work, many INGOs aimed to render possible. The spread
of democratic institutions at the national level in many countries follow-
ing the First World War provided greater scope for associational activi-
ties, both national and transnational, and the ‘Wilsonian’ ideals associated
with the 1919 Paris peace settlement provided legitimacy for many of
the goals pursued by INGOs in the following decade. Amongst the most
important contextual factors of all was the work of the League of Nations
in Geneva, with Alfred Zimmern arguing in 1929 that the League of
Nations had ‘brought to the table both new subjects of international dis-
cussion and new types of men to deal with them’, including ‘non-Â�
governmental experts nominated by responsible international bodies,
such for instance as the International Chamber of Commerce’.197
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do from big and powerful organisations like the Red Cross and the Inter-
Parliamentary Union, to the obscure and sometimes dubious organisa-
tion with high-sounding programme, imposing letter-head, a Secretary
and President perhaps and—that is all!’199 In this context, as in the open-
ing years of the twentieth century, components of transnational civil soci-
ety were developing ambitions that exceeded their means. Pickard noted
how at the turn of the decade Paul Otlet of the Union of International
Associations was putting forward ‘an ambitious proposal for what he calls
a Mundaneum at Geneva … which would comprise a great University,
Exhibition, Library, and House of International Organisations …
designed to be a scientific, documentary and educational World Centre,
representative of organised humanity as distinct from the organisation
of Governments in the League of Nations’—a resurrection of his pro-
posals for a ‘world centre’ in Brussels from 1911 to 1913.200 The follow-
ing paragraphs will explore the development in the early 1930s of large
transnational coalitions of INGOs, especially around the World Disar-
mament Conference of 1932–4, which made grand claims with respect
to their representativeness. This chapter will then conclude with a dis-
cussion of how, as the 1930s developed, INGOs lost influence at the
League of Nations, became increasingly exploited by governments, and
fragmented along the geopolitical divisions of the period.
â•… The initial years of the 1930s witnessed the continuation of many of
the trends with respect to the expansion of transnational civil society that
had taken place in the 1920s. The rate of organizational formation
remained high in these years, and included significant new women’s orga-
nizations in 1930 such as Equal Rights International, the International
Federation of Business and Professional Women and the Pan-American
Women’s Association. The continued expansion of transnational civil
society beyond Europe in this period is reflected in the convening in
Â�January 1931 of the All-Asian Women’s Conference in Lahore, which
‘was originated by Mrs. Cousins, International Representative of the
Women’s Indian Association of Madras after her world tour’, and which
sent a representative to liaise with the League of Nations in Geneva.201
The continuing development of inter-organizational cooperation among
INGOs in the same years is reflected in the creation of a Liaison
Â�Committee of Women’s International Organizations—including the
International Council of Women, the International Alliance of Women
and the World’s Alliance of YWCAs—in London in November 1930,
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â•… As Charnovitz has pointed out, ‘After 1932 only a few new episodes
of NGO involvement occurred within the League’.215 Amongst the most
notable occurred in 1935 when ‘in response to the request of the Latin
American delegations, the Council invited fifteen transnational wom-
en’s organisations to present statements on the nationality and status of
women’.216 The Latin American request was in response to the efforts
of ‘US feminists working through the Inter-American Commission of
Women’217 that had been set up in 1928 at the sixth Pan-American
Conference.218 As Carol Miller has noted, ‘Throughout 1936 and 1937
the League received information from member states and women’s
organisations that generated the publication of several hundred pages
of data on the worldwide status women’,219 but efforts towards League
of Nations conventions on women’s rights and nationality proved to be
unsuccessful.220
â•… In his pioneering study of INGOs, White found ‘In the latter years of
the League’s existence, … considerable dissatisfaction among the INGOs
regarding what they considered to have been a growing tendency of the
League to withdraw from collaboration and co-operation’.221 A particu-
larly significant development occurred in 1936 when the non-govern-
mental assessors were removed from the League of Nations Committee
on Social Questions.222 White posited that ‘this may have been due to
the fact that as certain ways of doing things became firmly established,
officials became more and more reluctant to accept proposals which would
upset the established routine or which would mean additional work’.223
Pickard argued that INGOs at the time believed that it was ‘because as
Munich approached, governments and inter-governmental agencies
tended to cold shoulder NGOs as a bit of a nuisance’.224
â•… Before the decline of INGO relations with the League of Nations, the
Great Depression already had a detrimental impact. White found that
‘beginning in 1932, the great decline in income slowed down the exten-
sion of activities for several years’.225 From 1932 onwards, the rate of new
INGO formation was slower than in the 1920s: the number of INGOs
established in the second half of the 1930s was little more than half the
figure for the late 1920s.226 Although several significant new INGOs
were established, including the International Youth Hostel Federation
in 1932, the International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations in
1933, the International Union Against Cancer in 1934, Alcoholics
Anony�mous World Services in 1935 and the Ford Foundation in 1936,227
many of the new INGOs of this period reflected fragmentary trends.
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â•… Amongst the international organizations with the highest rate of new
formations in the 1930s were international cartels. According to one
contemporary estimate: of 81 cartels surveyed in 1936, 17 of them were
formed in 1930–2 and 28 in 1933–5 (in contrast to 27 in the 1920s).228
The League of Nations cited estimates of the total number of interna-
tional cartels in the interwar years that were far greater, about 1,200 by
the late 1930s, and quoted estimates claiming that ‘42 per cent of world
trade between 1929 and 1937 was cartelized or influenced by loosely-
knit associations or conferences’.229 It outlined the different perspec-
tives on international cartels, from those who viewed them ‘as public
dangers, disrupting the competitive forces of the market, working for
the sole benefit of their members, disregarding the common interest,
and damaging world trade and the world economy’ to those who
regarded international cartels as ‘attempts to establish order in an
�otherwise chaotic situation, putting an end to the ruinous struggle for
export outlets by granting to each member country a certain share in
the world’s markets’.230
â•… Hara and Kudo claim that ‘it is within the process of economic recon-
struction after the First World War that the full-scale establishment of
international cartels can first be observed’.231 Amongst the factors respon-
sible for the development of international cartels in this period they cite
‘the imbalance that arose between production and consumption … caused
by the construction or enlargement of production facilities to meet the
urgent demand that arose during the war’, the ‘international agreements
concerning patent rights and production method exchanges’ in this period,
and ‘the intensification of international competition’ leading to efforts to
‘set up international cartels in order to preserve their domestic markets for
domestic producers’.232 In the 1930s, the last of these motivations appeared
to predominate. Hexner noted that the National Socialist Government of
Germany ‘looked upon all international economic mechanisms as instru-
ments with which to increase its war potential and to weaken its future
adversaries’ and quoted (with a degree of scepticism) authors attributing
‘the destruction of the Weimar Republic to cartels’.233
â•… During the interwar years the practice of ‘state manipulation’ of INGOs
became exceptionally prevalent, extending far beyond the use of interna-
tional cartels by National Socialist Germany.234 The practice was parti�
cularly evident among the member branches of the International
Federation of League of Nations Societies. Commonly considered at the
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Germany from 1925, Hoffman has argued ‘the far Right permeated bour-
geois and workers’ associational culture, which had been predominantly
liberal or socialist before 1914. In other words, the Nazis conquered
Â�German civil society from within.’243 Following the assumption of power
by Hitler in Germany in 1933, Mussolini believed that ‘fascism has
become a universal phenomenon … The dominant forces of the nine-
teenth century, democracy, socialism, liberalism have been exhausted …
the new political and economic forms of the twentieth-century are fas-
cist.’244 In June 1933, he set up the Comitati d’azione per l’Universalità
di Roma (CAUR) as a Fascist rival to the Communist International,
aiming ‘to cull statements of allegiance from various foreign movements
calling themselves “fascist”, and to integrate these “fascisms” into a loose
organization which paid fealty to the genius of Mussolini and the lead-
ership of Italian fascism’.245 CAUR organized an international congress
of Fascist groups in Montreux in December 1934, attended by delegates
from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania,
the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and
Â�Switzerland, as well as Italy.246 CAUR’s director claimed that ‘nothing
prevents … all our nationalisms from proclaiming the universality of fas-
cist doctrine on certain fundamental points … And so the “super-national”
idea harmonizes perfectly with the national idea.’247 Leeden has argued
that, at this congress, ‘There was virtually unanimous support for the
notion of an International which would unite the forces of youth on the
continent against the dual enemies of Bolshevik materialism and capi-
talist egotism’, and ‘the Congress provided for the creation of a perma-
nent commission for universal fascism … to be the Secretariat for the
Fascist International, a supreme co-ordinating committee for fascistic
propaganda and communication’.248
â•… Mussolini’s ability to charm international youth organizations in the
mid 1930s appeared to be considerable, and in May 1935 he was appar-
ently recognized as ‘the spiritual head of youth’ by the leadership the
International Confederation of Students, Pax Romana, and the Federa-
tion of Jewish Students.249 However, as Morgan has pointed out, the
experience of the Montreux congress ‘seems to provide further and con-
clusive evidence of the impossibility of organising a fascist International’:
the congress split on the issue of race, and ‘the permanent commission
met twice only, in early 1935’.250 CAUR lost the support of the Italian
regime, since it was thought that ‘the foreign movements with whom the
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in March 1929, which aimed ‘at rallying the broad masses of the work-
ers and the intellectuals in all countries to mass action against Â�Fascism’.261
Three years later, on the initiative of the political commission of the Exe�
cutive Committee of the Communist International, a conference was
held in the same city in March 1932 ‘to plan a campaign against impe-
rialist war, which would become “the starting-point of an effort to win
over new masses by party slogans”’.262 The result is what became known
as the ‘Amsterdam-Pleyel movement’, named after the International
Congress against War held in Amsterdam in August 1932, which estab-
lished the World Committee against Imperialist War;263 and the Euro-
pean Anti-Fascist Workers’ Congress, held in the Pleyel Hall in Paris in
June 1933, which created the European Workers’ Anti-Fascist Union.264
The organizations established by these conferences merged in August
1933 to form the ‘Joint World Committee against Imperialist War and
Fascism’, later abbreviated to World Committee against War and Â�Fascism,
which aimed no lower than ‘to co-ordinate the actions in the whole world
against war and fascism’ and appealed ‘to the hand and brain workers in
all parties, the trade unions of all tendencies, to the peasants and mem-
bers of the middle classes, to the youth and the women’.265 The World
Committee organized several international anti-Fascist congresses in
1933 and 1934, aiming to coordinate the anti-Fascist work of youth,
women and students, respectively, and spawned an array of committees
such as the Women’s World Committee against War and Â�Fascism and
the World Students’ Committee against War and Fascism. Although
commonly regarded as ‘a fellow travelling organization of limited creÂ�
dibility’,266 the World Committee achieved some success in appealing
beyond the Communist movement, counting among its British women
supporters Vera Brittain, Charlotte Despard, Sylvia Pankhurst, Marga-
ret Storm Jameson and Ellen Wilkinson.267
â•… Another front organization formed in 1933 that was to attract ‘a wide
array of international notables’ was the World Committee for the Relief
of the Victims of German Fascism.268 This organization was set up by
Muenzenburg following the burning of ‘objectionable’ books by the Nazis
in May 1933,269 and was to become well-known for circulating The Brown
Book of the Hitler Terror, which contained vivid images of people mur-
dered by the Nazis and purported to prove that ‘It was the morphia-fiend
Goering who set fire to the Reichstag’.270 Muenzenberg biographer Sean
McMeekin has argued that, despite clear evidence that the book ‘was, in
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short, a fraudulent hack job’, until the 1960s ‘most historians adopted the
Brown Book’s thesis about Goebbels planning and executing the Â�Reichstag
fire by sending a team of conspirators through Goering’s “secret tun-
nel”’.271 Muenzenberg’s ‘Commission of Inquiry into the Origins of the
Reichstag Fire’, which staged a counter-trial in London in September
1933 to support the Brown Book’s case, is also credited with having pro-
vided ‘the first international citizens’ tribunal’.272
â•… Following the success of his Brown Book campaign, Muenzenberg
‘seemed in many ways to be losing his political touch’.273 The develop-
ment of the Popular Front in 1934, however, provided the context for
continued proliferation of Communist front organizations into the later
1930s. The peace movement was amongst the most affected transnational
social movements, especially following the entry of the Soviet Union into
the League of Nations in 1934. With the work of the International Con-
sultative Group fading into irrelevance following the collapse of the
World Disarmament Conference, a new effort to coordinate the peace
work of multiple INGOs came in the form of the International Peace
Campaign (IPC), formally launched in March 1936. Claiming in the
late 1930s to be ‘at the present time the most powerful expression of
international public opinion’, the IPC achieved the support of forty
INGOs with a combined membership estimated to encompass 400 mil-
lion people.274 Supporting organizations included ICG members, such
as CIAMAC, the IFLNS and the Disarmament Committee of Â�Women’s
International Organizations; the International Co-operative Alliance;
the International Alliance of Women; international trade secretariats;
the World Jewish Congress; and numerous international peace societ-
ies.275 It had national committees in forty countries, and its international
congress in Brussels in September 1936 brought together 4,100 dele-
gates and was hailed by Britain’s Daily Herald as ‘the greatest peace con-
gress in history’.276 The IPC promoted a four-point programme
emphasizing ‘the sanctity of treaty obligations’, disarmament, League of
Nations actions ‘for the remedying of international conditions that might
lead to war’, and especially ‘strengthening the League of Nations for the
prevention and stopping of war by the more effective organization of
Collective Security and Mutual Assistance’.277 Although able to coordi-
nate substantial transnational campaigns in favour of collective security
and boycotting Japanese goods in 1937–8, the IPC swiftly collapsed the
following year after the announcement of the Nazi–Soviet Pact.278 The
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The Second World War, the Onset of the Cold War and the
Division of Transnational Civil Society
The commencement of the Second World War was received as a defeat
for internationalists: the new secretary general of the International
�Federation of League of Nations Societies remarked in September 1939
that ‘twenty years of endeavour to substitute the rule of law for the arbit-
rament of war, to build an international society … have been spent in
vain’.3 As with the First World War, the Second World War was to have
a greatly detrimental impact upon transnational civil society. The rate of
INGO formation in 1939 was approximately half that of 1938, and
remained at a similarly low level for each of the following five years.4 Orga-
nizations as diverse as the Communist International, the Inter-Allied
�Federation of Ex-Servicemen, the International Confederation of Stu-
dents and the International Consultative Group for Peace and �Disarmament
failed to survive the conflict.5 Many of the INGOs that endured had to
reduce their activities: the International Alliance of Women, for instance,
had to abandon its London headquarters for financial reasons, to post-
pone many of its meetings and to transfer its journal to the Women’s Pub-
licity Planning Association (which diluted the journal’s content), in
addition to having several of its leaders killed by the Nazis.6
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â•… In the regions of the world that were relatively unaffected by the war,
on the other hand, new INGOs continued to multiply. The growth rate
in the Americas was particularly high. New formations in 1940 alone
included the Inter-American Bar Association, the Inter-American Sta-
tistical Institute, the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology, the
Latin American Society for Plastic Surgery and the Chamber of
�Commerce of Latin America. A similar number of inter-American orga-
nizations were formed each of the following three years, and in 1944 the
Pan-American Liaison Committee of Women’s Organizations was cre-
ated.7 The opportunity that the conflict in Europe presented for transna-
tional civil society in the Americas is particularly vividly illustrated in the
creation of the Inter-American Statistical Institute in 1940: the war in
Europe was perceived in the Americas to have had such a profound impact
on Europe-based INGOs that it was assumed that many had perished,
including, as Stuart Rice observed, the International Statistical Institute
(ISI, which in fact survives to the present day), so an Inter-American
body was established ‘to carry forward the traditional work of the ISI
within the comparatively peaceful area of North and South America’.8
â•… Beyond the Americas, the volume of new INGOs created during the
Second World War was much smaller; but in Africa these included
the East African Dental Association in 1943, and in Asia the Indian
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ers, such as the Arab Progress Society in 1930, the Society for Arab Unity
and the Committee for the Spread of Arab Culture the following year,
the Arab Bond Society in 1936, and the Association of Arab Unity and
the Bond of Arabism in 1939.11 Pan-Arab organizations formed else-
where in the 1930s included the Nationalist Action League in Syria in
1933 and al-Muthanna in Iraq in 1935, and in the context of the �Palestine
Arab rebellion many of these organizations joined together in 1937 to
form an organization ‘to adopt a nationalist programme of the Arab
nationalist youth from the [Atlantic] Ocean to the [Persian] Gulf ’.12 In
1940, the Arab Baath (Resurrection) Socialist Party was formed in Syria,
which was to describe itself as ‘a popular national revolutionary move-
ment striving for Arab unity, freedom and socialism’,13 and developed
branches in other countries from 1948.14 With the British government
encouraging pan-Arabism during the Second World War, the Arab Union
Club was reformed in Egypt in 1942 and became a society to promote
the combination of all Arabic-speaking territories ‘under one political
government, while each of them would be able to choose the kind of
regime and way of life she pleases’.15 It aimed ‘from its outset … to form
branches in all Arab countries’,16 which it succeeded in doing in Â�Baghdad,
Beirut, Damascus and Jaffa in addition to Cairo.17 Its objectives were
endorsed by the Egyptian Prime Minister, and all of the territories in
which it had branches (except Palestine) were to become founding mem-
bers of the Arab League.18
â•… Another organization considered to have been a precursor to the Arab
League is the General Arab Women’s Federation, which was established
as a result of the Arab Feminist Conference in Cairo in 1944. This con-
ference was organized by the Egyptian Feminist Union leader Huda
Shaarawi, who in 1938 had convened the Eastern Women’s Conference
for the Defence of Palestine at which an international Permanent �Central
Committee of Women for the Defence of Palestine had been estab-
lished.19 By 1944, she was promoting the broader objective of ‘a pan-Arab
feminist union’ to ‘strengthen feminist movements inside individual Arab
countries, while enhancing their participation in the international fem-
inist movement’.20 In the early 1940s, pan-Arab professional congresses
also became increasingly frequent,21 and by the end of the war some of
these were transformed into permanent international organizations, such
as the Union of Arab Pharmacists that dates its establishment to 1945.22
â•… In Europe and North America, many of the most significant INGOs
created during the Second World War were established to deal with the
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exchange activities between the United States and Asia to those pio-
neered by the Institute of Pacific Relations.27 The same year saw the estab-
lishment of the Council on Intercultural Relations (later renamed
Institute for Intercultural Studies) by US cultural anthropologist �Margaret
Mead, which was intended ‘as a clearing house for the study of person-
ality and culture in the various countries of the world’ in order to pro-
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vide information that could ‘both hasten victory and provide an optimum
setting for postwar reconstruction’.28
â•… Greater in number were the associations promoting a new interna-
tional organization to replace the League of Nations in the post-war era.
The associations that had promoted world government in the late 1930s
were joined in 1940 by a US Federal Union, formed by Clarence Streit,
and by the World Government Association, also based in the United
States and also aiming ‘to promote world government on democratic
principles’.29 The following year World Federation was set up by Ely
Cuthbertson in New York to promote a ‘World Federation Plan’ that
would promote a global federation consisting of eleven regional federa-
tions; and in 1943 the Citizens Conference on International Economic
Union was created to promote free trade, stable currencies and interna-
tional economic union.30 Following the war in 1945 the Committee to
Frame a World Constitution was organized in Chicago, to promote a
highly ambitious plan for a Federal World Republic with tax-raising and
passport-issuing powers.31
â•… More practical were the numerous organizations set up in the United
States during the conflict that were dedicated to studying the problems
of post-war settlement. The most notable of these was the Commission
to Study the Organization of Peace, established by James T. Shotwell and
€
November 1939, to ‘review the past … and build upon the history of the
League of Nations plans for an organization of lasting peace’.32 The Com-
mission’s members were described as ‘a who’s who in international rela-
tions scholarship from the fields of education, government, labor and
business’.33 The following year John Foster Dulles formed the Federal
Council of Churches’ Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, ‘to clar-
ify the mind of our churches regarding the moral, political and economic
foundations of an enduring peace’.34 In 1941 these organizations were
joined by the Free World Association, organized by Louis Dolivet of the
International Peace Campaign, which aimed towards ‘educating public
opinion for world organization’ without diminishing sovereignty to the
extent that it ‘would limit or subordinate America or any other coun-
try’.35 The same year saw the formation by former members of the Inter-
national Consultative Group of the Institute on World Organization, to
study ‘political, economic, and social problems relating to world organi-
zation in order to aid in promoting a durable and just peace’,36 and of the
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quate provision for the ultimate achievement of human rights and fun-
damental freedoms’ is commonly thought to have been central to the US
delegation’s promotion of the UN Charter’s human rights provisions,
although, as Ian Clark has argued, ‘the essentials of the Consultants’
demands were already embraced in draft amendments’.63
â•… The reference to ‘non-governmental organizations’ in Article 71 of the
United Nations Charter brought the term into common usage. The role
of these organizations in contributing towards this and other compo-
nents of the Charter has commonly been seen as a starting point for anal-
yses of how ‘a close partnership was developing’ between non-governmental
and inter-governmental international organizations, ‘a major challenge
to the geopolitics of the emerging Cold War that was threatening to
divide the world’.64 However, as Bertram Pickard noted, the arrangement
for consultation with the United Nations was ‘not only a denial of inte-
gral participation of certain non-governmental elements as in the ILO
but also in effect a so-far-and-no-further obstacle to any continuance of
the pragmatic but close IGO–NGO partnership developed under the
League’.65 Whereas, he argued, ‘the League’s characteristic consultation
with the NGOs of that day, though non-statutory, took the form never-
theless of “participation without vote,”’ in the United Nations’ arrange-
ments this privilege was ‘jealously reserved … for the specialized agencies,
and expressly denied to NGOs’.66 The term ‘non-governmental organi-
zation’ defined NGOs in terms of what they were not, a less positive
denotation than the terminology of previous eras, such as ‘private inter-
national organization’. By 1945, there was a widespread perception among
governmental policy-makers that ‘private international organizations’ had
had too much influence in the League of Nations era, especially at the
World Disarmament Conference, so the provisions of the UN Charter
expressly limited INGO input to the economic and social spheres.67
â•… Furthermore, some INGOs were to play a role in the exacerbation of
tensions as the Cold War developed in the late 1940s. At the end of the
Second World War, many INGOs were reconstituted: in 1945, for
instance, the International Air Traffic Association was succeeded by the
International Air Transport Association, and the International �Federation
of Trade Unions by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
The number of INGOs founded in 1945 was as high as in the early years
of the 1930s, a rate of formation that was to double in the following year
and to be sustained for the following two decades.68 More than twice as
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many INGOs were formed in the first two decades of the Cold War than
had been formed in any previous two decades,69 but much of the expan-
sion can be accounted for by the division of transnational civil society
along Cold War lines in this period.
â•… A significant number of INGOs split in two in the early 1940s. As
Peter Willetts has argued, ‘several international NGOs came to be more
sympathetic to the communists than Western opinion could tolerate’ and
‘as a result Western groups split from the world organizations and formed
their own rival international NGOs’.70 The best-known example is the
secession of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU) from the WFTU in 1949. In the opening speech of the
Â�ICFTU’s founding conference, H. L. Bullock stated: ‘We are here to
€ €
learn by our mistakes, and to see more clearly than we did on that ear-
lier occasion the significance of the contemporary conflict between the
democratic and the totalitarian way of life. We must not make the mis-
take of trying to comprehend in our new World Confederation contra-
dictory and irreconcilable objects and aims.’71 The formation of the
WFTU in 1945 had seen unprecedented cooperation between Commu-
nist and non-Communist trade unions, but Christian trade unions did
not take part from the outset, and, as Denis MacShane has argued, the
relationship between the US and Soviet members of the WFTU were
‘ragged from the very outset of the WFTU’s existence’.72 WFTU’s fail-
ure to secure a higher status in the United Nations system than other
non-governmental bodies ‘was a humiliation’, and by the end of 1946
WFTU had ‘failed … to establish its own institutional raison d’être, by
providing services or organizing interventions with effect’.73 The US par-
ticipant in the WFTU, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was
used by Truman to build support for the Truman Doctrine, and promoted
WFTU as the trade union participant in the distribution of Marshall
Aid, an issue which split the movement and was to lead to the secession
of the ICFTU in 1949. However, MacShane has argued that ‘the con-
frontation within trade unions domestically and internationally was one
of the causes rather than a consequence of the Cold War’ since ‘intra-left
hostility in the trade union movement was deep rooted’.74
â•… Divisions along Cold War lines within transnational civil society that
preceded, and potentially contributed towards, the collapse of US–Soviet
relations were not confined to the international trade union movement.
The numerous Communist front and anti-Communist organizations of
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the period preceding the Second World War were described in the pre-
ceding chapter. During the conflict, further new organizations exacer-
bated the development of an East–West divide within transnational civil
society, such as the International Monarchist League created in 1943,
which claimed that its founders ‘had seen what had happened in Â�Central
Europe when the Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies had been
overthrown, leaving the vacuum to be filled by Nazism, and they feared
that the fall of the Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Albanian thrones
would lead to the eastward expansion of the communist domination’.75
â•… At the end of the conflict, a considerable number of new Communist
front INGOs were created. The most significant women’s and youth orga-
nizations to be founded in 1945, for instance, were the World Federa-
tion of Democratic Youth (WFDY ) and the Women’s International
Democratic Federation (WIDF), both of which became perceived to be
Communist front organizations, despite some non-Communist support
and their apparently relatively innocuous founding objectives, respec-
tively: of ‘close international understanding and cooperation amongst the
youth … with respect for the diversity of ideas and national conditions’
and ‘coordination of the activity of millions of women who, during the
last war, got together to oppose with all their might fascism, the cause of
misery and war, to defend the liberty of their peoples’.76 They were joined
the following year by a larger number of Soviet-leaning organizations,
including the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL),
the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ), the International
Union of Students (IUS), the World Federation of Scientific Workers
(WFSW) and the World Federation of Teachers Associations (FISG).77
â•… At the opposite end of the spectrum was the Liberal International,
which was established in 1947 with the objective of uniting ‘not only
political Liberals, but freedom loving people of all nations so that a united
stand might be made against the enemies of democracy’.78 Many of the
Communist front INGOs founded in the mid 1940s found themselves
confronted by the creation in the later 1940s of rival non-Communist
counterparts in their respective fields of activity. In 1946, for instance,
WFDY was confronted by the (re-)formation of the (pro-Western) Inter-
national Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY ); while in 1948 WFDY was
confronted by the creation of the World Assembly of Youth and the IOJ
was confronted by the formation of the International Federation of Free
Journalists (IFFJ). As Willetts has pointed out, the formation of rival
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â•… While Indian efforts towards pan-Asian regional organization had lit-
tle effect, Pakistani efforts towards pan-Islamic organization were more
successful. The World Muslim Congress that had been founded in 1926
had ‘practically gone into oblivion’ following the Jerusalem congress of
1931, but ‘after the creation of Pakistan, it was reactivated and it started
functioning from its newly established permanent headquarters in Kara-
chi’.89 In East Jerusalem in 1952, ‘the prime example of a transnational
Islamist political movement’ was formed by Shaykh Taqiuddin al-Â�
Nabhani, who created Hizb ut-Tahrir with the aim of ‘reinstating Islam
through a popular Islamic revolution which would install a Caliph’.90
â•… Split along East–West and North–South lines and with a growing
trend towards regionalization, international non-governmental organi-
zations in the 1950s were less central to international politics than they
had been before the Second World War. Even the United Nations, as
Lador-Lederer observed, generally ‘took account of the nuisance value
of NGOs rather than of their positive nature’.91 Jeremi Suri has further
argued that there is ‘little evidence that’ in the 1940s and 1950s INGOs
‘made much of a tangible difference to policy or everyday life’.92
â•… Despite their divisions, within the sectors in which INGOs operated
in the 1940s and 1950s there were several occasions upon which their
influence was considerable. This was commonly the case when there was
a significant intergovernmental political opportunity structure. One of
the outstanding examples of INGO influence in the 1940s was their con-
tribution to the development of human rights norms, taking further the
commitment by states to human rights in the Charter of the United
Nations, which provided the political opportunity structure for INGO
human rights campaigners. Both the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 were in large part responses to INGO
pressure.93 René Cassin, the leader of numerous Paris-based INGOs and
‘principal architect of the Universal Declaration’, noted the importance
in the drafting process for the UDHR of the ‘encouragement and assis-
tance’ of INGOs in refining the clauses of the Declaration, especially
women’s INGOs, ‘whose contribution was especially valuable when the
definitive provisions of the Declaration regarding marriage, the family
and children were being worked out’.94 According to Korey, Cassin and
Eleanor Roosevelt also came to the conclusion that, rather than govern-
ments, ‘it was the NGOs who would take on the challenge of transform-
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ing the words of the Declaration from a standard into reality’.95 Beyond
their input into the UDHR, international women’s NGOs were signifi-
cant in promoting international agreement upon the principle of ‘equal
pay for equal work’ embodied in the 1951 Equal Remuneration Conven-
tion and the broader 1958 Employment (Discrimination) Convention
of 1958.96
â•… INGOs in the 1940s and 1950s were also an important aspect of what
has commonly been described as ‘one of the most significant transfor-
mations of the postwar international scene’97—decolonization. Despite
their often short-lived existences, bodies such as the Asian Relations
Organization and the African and Asian ‘people’s conferences’ have been
credited with an important role in the ‘awakening’ of Asia and Africa.98
Furthermore, non-governmental networks were central to the dissemi-
nation of techniques for resisting colonial rule, with the independence
campaigns of Nkrumah, Kaunda and Nyerere ‘modelled … explicitly on
Gandhian lines’.99
â•… Although one impact of decolonization was to promote the fragmen-
tation of transnational civil society along regional lines, another was to
promote its dispersal beyond its traditional principal loci in Europe and
the Americas. Whereas in 1938 the League of Nations recorded the exis-
tence of just five INGOs with headquarters in Asia and none with head-
quarters in Africa, by 1951 the Union of International Associations
recorded ten INGOs with headquarters in Asia (of which five had had
headquarters in Asia by 1938) and four INGOs with headquarters in
Africa, all of which had been founded after 1941.100
â•… The period following the Second World War also saw the formation
of several of the most significant INGOs that operate in the present day.
This took place in the context of developments such as post-war eco-
nomic recovery, relative political stability in comparison with the war
years, and further improvements in communications, such as commer-
cial jet aeroplane travel from the 1950s. Many of the new INGOs to be
established in the late 1940s and 1950s took forward on a more perma-
nent basis the work of pre-war organizations, with the International
Organization of Standardization created in 1946 building on the work
of the earlier International Federation of National Standardization Asso-
ciations, and the World Medical Association and the International Hotel
and Restaurant Association formed in 1947 taking further the earlier
work of the International Professional Association of Doctors and the
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North–South divisions of the period also formed the context for the emer-
gence of a new generation of INGOs that aimed to challenge these divi-
sions. The new INGOs of the 1940s and 1950s challenging the East–West
and North–South divisions that had emerged both in transnational civil
society and in world politics more generally laid the foundations for the
revitalization of transnational civil society in the subsequent three decades.
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those men and women who are imprisoned because their ideas are unac-
ceptable to their governments’.120 As Buchanan has noted, for Benenson
‘1961 was not any old year—it was the anniversary of the emancipation
of the serfs in Russia and the outbreak of the American Civil War’.121
Benenson’s ‘underlying purpose’, which he hoped ‘those who are closely
connected with it will remember, but never publish’, was ‘to find a com-
mon base upon which the idealists of the world can co-operate’, ‘in par-
ticular to absorb the latent enthusiasm of great numbers of such idealists,
who have, since the eclipse of Socialism, become increasingly frustrated’;
he also stated that ‘it matters more to harness the enthusiasm of the help-
ers than to bring people out of prison … Those whom the Amnesty
Appeal primarily aims to free are the men and women imprisoned by
cynicism, and doubt.’122 This has been interpreted as indicating that
Amnesty International was launched to address the ‘unmet demand for
activism among certain populations in the free world’.123
â•… Amnesty International’s initial work concentrated on information-
gathering and letter-writing in respect of political prisoners in the First,
Second and Third Worlds, and within three years 1,367 prisoners had
been ‘adopted’ by its 360 groups, established in fourteen countries, with
329 prisoners released.124 Amnesty International was awarded UN con-
sultative status in 1964 and made use of the procedures later established
by ECOSOC for reporting human rights abuses to the UN Human
Rights Commission.125 As Clark has argued, Amnesty International also
expanded its activities to include promotion of ‘stronger, preventative
international norms concerning prisoner treatment’, most notably in its
1970s campaign against torture, which contributed towards the UN’s
1975 Declaration on the issue.126
â•… With respect to the peace movement, the context of the possibility of
nuclear annihilation evident in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the
escalation of the Vietnam War in the later 1960s was particularly signif-
icant in its development. At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, peace
activists in the United States are thought to have staged ‘America’s larÂ�
gest open-air demonstration for peace up to that time’.127 In addition,
Lawrence Wittner has provided evidence that during the Cuban �Missile
Crisis the US government’s ‘caution reflected … its sensitivity to public
opinion’, with Kennedy fearing ‘demonstrations, peace groups marching
in the streets, perhaps a divisive public debate’, and ‘US diplomatic mes-
sages—particularly the claim that “sane” people would not fight a nuclear
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“transformed the social fabric” of the United States and countries around
the world’.143 The events of 1968 are thought to have been similarly sig-
nificant, promoting mobilization in ‘a decentralized and antihierarchical
organizational form’.144 As Moghadam has argued, the ‘second wave fem-
inism’ that developed in the United States and elsewhere in the 1960s
‘was initially nationally based and nationally oriented’.145 The new inter-
national women’s INGOs of the 1960s consisted primarily of women’s
business and professional associations, such as the International Union
of Women Architects (1963), the International Association of Women
and Home Page Journalists (1964) and the International Federation of
Women’s Travel Organizations.146 The following decade, however, saw
international women’s mobilization transformed.
â•… Established INGOs played an important part in this process, which,
having taken part in the development of the 1967 United Nations
�Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in
1967, persuaded the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to declare
1975 ‘International Women’s Year’, and in the following ‘Decade for
Women’ over a third of women’s INGOs were founded.147 The Mexico
conference in International Women’s Year was important in provoking
the establishment of new women’s INGOs that ‘made it their priority to
mobilize women and co-ordinate local and national activities through
networking’, such as the International Feminist Network and the Inter-
national Women’s Tribune Center set up in 1976, in contrast to earlier
women’s INGOs that restricted networking to an ‘elite’ of ‘those women
active at the international level’.148 New women’s INGOs were also
�dedicated to an increasingly broad range of issues, such as development,
domestic violence and the environment.149 With the Decade for Women
coinciding with the second Development Decade, ‘the two events melded
into each other in the sense that a core dimension for grappling with
women’s issues became the concern for “incorporating women into devel-
opment”’, and a result of women’s INGO pressure was the endorsement
of ‘remarkably strong feminist positions … as UN policy for develop-
ment’.150 However, splits between Northern and Southern women’s
INGOs were exacerbated over the development issue, and new women’s
INGOs that aimed to tackle the development issue from a Southern per-
spective were established, such as the Association of African Women for
Research and Development in 1977 and Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era in 1984.151 Organizations such as Women �Living
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Under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), both
also formed in 1984, on the other hand, have bridged international divi-
sions in their pursuit of women’s rights in Muslim countries.152
â•… The new forms of networking and more radical forms of activism of
the 1970s extended beyond the women’s and environmentalist move-
ments. In the case of humanitarian INGOs, a more radical form of mobi-
lization is evident in the creation of Médecins Sans Frontières in 1971
‘to ensure medical and surgical aid regardless of the location of the disas-
ter’ by ‘veterans of the 1968 rebellion’ who had joined the French Red
Cross and ‘were horrified not only by the carnage [in Biafra] but also by
the Red Cross principle of neutrality, which ruled out any public con-
demnation’.153 Iriye has argued that ‘as a founder of the organization
wrote, … [MSF] was frankly “subversive”; it would not always wait for,
or go through, government authorization before acting, and it would not
hesitate to publicize its activities or the plight of the people it assisted’.154
The creation of Africare, also in 1971, which ‘was conceived in Africa—
in the Republic of Niger’ and which ‘from the beginning … was always
there to work with the people and not to superimpose a plan for them’,
also marked a novel development in aid organizations, as did the cre-
ation of Appropriate Health Resources Technologies Action Group in
1976 to assist health workers in developing countries to gain access to
information.155 A further transformation was evident in the responses to
the famine in Africa in the mid 1980s, when the major Western-based
Muslim charitable organizations Islamic Relief Worldwide and Muslim
Aid were founded in the United Kingdom in 1984 and 1985 respec-
tively.156 However, this is also the point at which humanitarian aid became
a cause célèbre, prompting such ad hoc celebrity-driven coalitions as Live
Aid and USA for Africa, which succeeded in raising considerable sums,
but much of which was used by the Ethiopian government ‘to drive out
suspect populations, what we now call ethnic cleansing, and to resettle
Ethiopians on state-run farms that employed forced labour’.157
â•… As well as witnessing the transformation of existing transnational social
movements, such as for aid and development, human rights, peace, wom-
en’s rights and the environment, the period from the 1960s to the 1980s
also saw the emergence of INGOs representing new issues and sectors
of society. The beginning of this period saw the formation of the orga-
nization that claims to be ‘the only independent and authoritative global
voice for consumers’, Consumers International, which was established in
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Foreign direct investment quadrupled between 1960 and 1975 and then
more than doubled by 1985, and in 1988 the United Nations described
TNCs as ‘the most important actors in the world economy’ given that
‘the biggest TNCs have sales which exceed the aggregate output of most
countries’.167 It is in the context of a growing European challenge to the
post-war preponderance of US-based TNCs in the early 1970s that the
World Economic Forum developed following ‘a meeting of European
business leaders in January 1971, to “discuss a coherent strategy for Euro-
pean business to face challenges in the international marketplace”’.168
There also developed in the 1970s significant new INGOs to facilitate
international business transactions, such as the Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a cooperative to facil-
itate international bank transfers set up in 1973 with support from 239
banks from 15 countries.169
â•… The rise of the TNC as a significant economic and political actor in
world politics provided a new target for social change INGOs, alongside
the traditional target of governmental and intergovernmental actors.
During the 1970s a growing number of national NGOs were formed
aimed at promoting corporate social responsibility by corporations based
in their countries, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respon-
sibility (ICCR) created by US churches in 1973. Organizations dedi-
cated to monitoring TNCs were also set up, such as the Transnational
Information Exchange established in 1977. In terms of transnational
activism, a pioneering case of mobilization against a TNC is provided
by the campaign that developed in the 1970s in respect of Nestlé’s mar-
keting of breast milk substitutes in developing countries, highlighted in
War on Want’s 1974 pamphlet The Baby Killer. When published in
Â�German as Nestlé tötet Babys by Swiss NGO Arbeitsgruppe Dritte Welt
(AgDW), Nestlé sued the group for libel, which attracted significant
media coverage and stimulated the formation in 1976 of a transnational
network to gather information on TNC promotion of baby milk.170 The
following year the Infant Formula Action Committee (INFACT) was
created in the United States to boycott Nestlé until it ceased promotion
of infant formulas, a campaign which spread to Canada, New Zealand
and Australia in 1978, the United Kingdom in 1980, Sweden and West
Germany in 1981, and France in 1982.171 Following the WHO/�UNICEF
meeting that was convened to discuss the issue in 1979, War on Want,
AgDW, INFACT, ICCR, Oxfam and IOCU formed the International
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Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which aimed ‘to act as a monitor
of corporate activity around the world, using the recommendations of
the October 1979 meeting as a guideline’ and ‘eventually brought together
100 groups working in sixty-five countries’ in every continent.172 Within
two years, the Code of Marketing for Breast Milk Substitutes was adopted
by the World Health Assembly, despite US and corporate opposition.173
Finally, in 1984, Nestlé and the International Nestlé Boycott Commit-
tee, which had been set up by boycotters in 1979 to negotiate with Nestlé,
agreed a joint statement confirming Nestlé’s ‘compliance with the Inter-
national Code’.174
â•… Over the course of the period from the 1960s until the 1980s, INGO
targeting of TNCs contributed to the enrichment of what Paul Wapner
refers to as ‘politics beyond the state’ or ‘world civic politics’, by which
INGOs help shape world affairs not only by influencing states, but also
by ‘working within and across societies themselves’, including by target-
ing corporations.175 The boycotting of slave-grown goods by the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in the early nineteenth century was
indicative that ‘politics beyond the state’ is far from new.176 However, it
gained renewed prominence from the 1960s onwards. Amongst the exam-
ples cited by Wapner are the decline in demand for seal pelts following
a campaign by environmentalist INGOs including Greenpeace from the
1960s onwards, which rendered the 1983 EEC ban on seal pelts that fol-
lowed the drop in demand ‘an afterthought and ultimately unnecessary’;
and the cessation of the practice of catching dolphins in the process of
tuna fishing by the three largest tuna companies following the launch-
ing of an international non-governmental campaign by the Earth Island
Institute in 1985.177
â•… Transnational networking targeting governments in the same period
has given rise to another significant concept: the transnational advocacy
network operating through the ‘boomerang pattern’ by which ‘when the
links between state and domestic actors are severed, domestic NGOs may
directly seek international allies to try to bring pressure on their states
from outside’.178 As with ‘world civic politics’, transnational advocacy net-
works date at least to nineteenth-century anti-slavery activism.179 The best-
known examples, however, took place in the late twentieth century, such
as the transnational campaign against apartheid in South Africa and the
network in respect of Argentine disappearances from 1976, where ‘rapid
change occurred because strong domestic human rights organizations doc-
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in the revolutions of 1989. The 1975 Helsinki Final Act sparked the for-
mation of a ‘transnational Helsinki network’ including groups on both
sides of the Cold War divide for the monitoring of its human rights pro-
visions, such as the Moscow Helsinki Group and the US-based Helsinki
Watch (now Human Rights Watch).186 On the day that the former dis-
banded, the latter formed an International Helsinki Federation for
Human Rights (IHR) to ‘defend the rights of beleaguered Helsinki
groups in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, encourage the forma-
tion of Helsinki groups in West European countries where none existed,
and establish a coordinating office in Vienna’.187 Following the revolu-
tions of 1989, Václav Havel told Helsinki Watch, ‘I know very well what
you did for us, and perhaps without you, our revolution would not be’.188
â•… In the period from the 1960s until the 1980s, INGOs had been influ-
ential in transforming national policy (such as in helping provoke the
creation of overseas development ministries), intergovernmental policy
(for instance, in campaigning for intergovernmental agreements against
torture), corporate behaviour (such as in the case of Nestlé’s marketing
of breast milk substitutes) and in developments as varied as the creation
of the internet and the end of the Cold War. INGO numbers had
increased more than tenfold during these three decades, from less
than 1,300 in 1960 to more than 14,000 in 1989.189 This expansion
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the conference was provision for ‘strengthening the role of major groups’
including INGOs as part of the sustainable development agenda.197 Dis-
cussion of women’s human rights at the Vienna World Conference on
Human Rights the following year and their inclusion as a key compo-
nent of the Declaration arising from the conference reflected the impact
of the Global Campaign for Women’s Human Rights and the Global
Tribunal on Violations of Women’s Human Rights that it organized.198
â•… Consisting of multiple organizations and networks, the Global
Â�Campaign for Women’s Human Rights is an example of a global coali-
tion, a form of mobilization that became increasingly prevalent in the
1990s.199 Amongst the most broad-based to develop was CIVICUS:
World Alliance for Citizen Participation which emerged in 1991–3 on
the initiative of a range of civil society leaders from North and South
America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East who aimed to form
‘a global alliance of individuals and organisations which might strengthen
civil society institutions, advocate for the cause of civil society among the
world’s decision-makers and stimulate dialogue among civil society
organisations and across the nonprofit, business and public sectors’.200
Like the Union of International Associations founded eighty years before,
its principal achievements have included the publishing of data on ‘global
civil society’. It achieved a membership of 400 non-governmental orga-
nizations by 1997.201
â•… That year a similar-sized global coalition—the International Campaign
to Ban Landmines—and its organizer Jody Williams were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize ‘for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-
personnel mines’.202 The Campaign’s extensive role in the negotiations
leading up to the 1997 Ottawa Landmines Convention was described by
the Canadian Foreign Minister as ‘a new type of diplomacy suited to a
new era’.203 The following year saw a similar role played by the Coalition
for an International Criminal Court in the proceedings leading up to the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.204 In both cases, the
achievements of the coalitions reflected the new opportunities provided
by the post-Cold War context and the coalitions’ working relationship
with intergovernmental bodies and responsive states, as well as the coali-
tions’ well-coordinated and broad-based mobilization.205
â•… Amongst the most frequent targets of transnational coalitions in the
1990s were the international financial institutions: the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund. The transnational coalition that formed
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icy for and direct the allocation of number blocks to regional number
registries for the assignment of Internet addresses’.218 The US govern-
ment paper from which ICANN originated provided the rationale for
its creation: ‘As the Internet becomes commercial, it becomes inappro-
priate for U.S. research agencies … to participate in and fund these func-
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â•… The optimism of the World Social Forum’s slogan ‘another world is
possible’ was mirrored in the considerable literature on the ‘rise’ of trans-
national civil society that had developed over the course of the 1990s. In
one study of the subject published at the turn of the millennium, for
instance, Ann Florini argued that ‘the power of transnational civil soci-
ety manifests itself at virtually every stage of policy making’ and ‘trans-
national civil society may be creating the basis of a global polity’.229 New
research centres were established in multiple universities dedicated to
the study of the apparently emerging global civil society, and the Centre
for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Econom-
ics and Political Science used the onset of the new millennium to launch
a series of Global Civil Society yearbooks, the objective of which—‘to pro-
vide the beginnings of a systematic profile of the contours, composition,
and developments of global civil society’—echoed that of the Annuaires
de la Vie Internationale produced by the International Institute of Peace
and the Union of International Associations nearly a century earlier.230
â•… A common characteristic of much of this literature was emphasis upon
apparent achievements of transnational civil society in the 1990s, the sig-
nificance of which may be called into question. For example, one of the
most celebrated apparent achievements was the supposed ‘significant vic-
tory’ of a coalition of peace associations ‘in persuading governments to
adopt UN resolutions asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or
World Court, for its first-ever advisory opinion on the legal status of the
threat or use of nuclear weapons’ in 1996.231 The outcome was an ambig-
uous opinion, arguing both that ‘the threat or use of nuclear weapons
would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable
in armed conflict, and in particular the principles and rules of humani-
tarian law’ and that ‘there is in neither customary nor conventional inter-
national law any comprehensive and universal prohibition of the threat
or use of nuclear weapons as such’.232 Moreover, given that—as the Court
itself highlighted in its opinion—the Court ‘states the existing law and
does not legislate’, the World Court Project was of limited significance
in terms of transforming international law, let alone states’ practices.233
â•… The situation was similar in respect of many other celebrated campaigns
of the 1990s, such as the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
When receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of this organization, Jody
Williams proclaimed that ‘Together we are a superpower!’234 However,
this claim looks somewhat hollow if it is considered that all of the states
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own to campaign on the major issues of the era. In 1995, for instance,
the World Business Council for Sustainable Development was created,
which has the aim of promoting ‘business leadership as a catalyst for sus-
tainable development and to support the business license to operate,
innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable devel-
opment issues’.249 As for INGOs of independent origin, these increas-
ingly cooperated with businesses in multi-stakeholder initiatives such as
the Ethical Trading Initiative (1998), the Fair Labor Association (1998),
the Global Reporting Initiative (1997) and Social Accountability Inter-
national (1997). The effect of the homogenization of INGOs’ activities
and their co-optation by business has been a diminishing of genuine
alternatives at the global level.250
â•… At the regional level, on the other hand, divisions within transnational
civil society became increasingly apparent in the 1990s. Divisions in
transnational civil society along East–West lines that had emerged dur-
ing the Cold War continued into the post-Cold War era, even as inter-
governmental relations improved: in respect of the international trade
union movement, for instance, the division between the World Federa-
tion of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions was to continue to the present day.251 As for the North–South
divide, Jackie Smith has noted that whereas ‘before the mid 1980s, most
transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) organized across
the North–South divide … since the mid 1980s data show that more
TSMOs are organized exclusively within either the global North or
South’.252 Whereas 72 per cent of TSMOs formed before 1990 were
trans�regional, this was the case in respect of only 47 per cent of those
formed after 1989.253 According to Smith this reflects the seizing of new
regional opportunity structures provided by institutions such as the Euro-
pean Union, but she acknowledges that ‘polarization may … explain …
some of this shift towards regional organizing’.254
â•… Regional polarization of transnational civil society in the decade fol-
lowing the end of the Cold War was exacerbated by many of the activi-
ties of those aiming to work across the North–South divide. While a
convergence of environmentalist and development agendas is suggested
by the ascent of ‘sustainable development’ discourse in the post-Cold War
era, a number of campaigns with this agenda in mind have been vulner-
able to the critique that the environmental dimension has been promoted
at the expense of the alleviation of poverty. This has commonly been
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to have had limited impact. This was especially evident in respect of the
Beijing Platform for Action agreed at the 1995 Fourth World Confer-
ence on Women, in which it was widely thought that ‘the role of NGOs
was highlighted, perhaps more strongly than ever before’ and which was
believed at the time to have ‘established clearly that women are a global
force for the twenty-first century’.275 A decade later, the United Nations
official responsible for supporting the negotiations argued that ‘it seems
that we were wrong … The ten-year review … was barely able to adopt an
anodyne one-page declaration that said that the Platform was still valid.’276
â•… Many of the campaigns that appeared to have been successful in the
1990s were to face insurmountable obstacles in the following decade.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, for instance, proved
unable to convince the leading non-signatories to the Ottawa Landmines
Convention—China, Russia and the United States—to adjust their posi-
tion. In some cases, INGOs’ activities may have impeded progress. Nego-
tiations taking forward the climate change arrangements agreed at the
1992 Rio Earth Summit, for example, made greater progress at the 2010
Cancun talks, at which INGOs were comparatively marginalized, than
at the 2009 Copenhagen summit, at which non-governmental lobbying
efforts were greatly more extensive, and following which the Director of
the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development, Juergen
Maier, challenged NGOs ‘to take a self-critical look at themselves and
ask to what extent they actually contributed to the poor result of the cli-
mate negotiations’.277
â•… The large collaborative projects of international non-governmental
actors that had become a key feature of transnational civil society by the
turn of the millennium commonly failed to meet the expectations that
they had raised. In the case of the most ambitious initiative, the World
Social Forum, the first few years of its existence witnessed remarkable
growth: regional social forums were established in Europe and Africa in
2002 and in Asia in 2003, and participation in the global event peaked
at 155,000 in 2005, a year in which large-scale global civil society events
of all types also reached a peak.278 However, despite their events being
held in three locations around the world in 2006, participation in the
WSF declined that year by nearly a quarter.279 It was to fall again when
held in Nairobi the following year, by which time accusations of having
descended into ‘just another NGO fair’ had become prevalent.280 Accord-
ing to Karen Worth and Owen Buckley, the WSF had ‘become a funfair
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Forum has been accused of ‘pitting northern and southern NGOs against
one another’ and having ‘greatly reduced’ the influence of international
NGOs.288 At the national level, governments may also have enhanced
their ability to limit the activities of transnational civil society actors,
such as through legislation requiring compulsory registration of NGOs.289
╅ It may further be argued that governments have increased their capa�
city to manipulate INGOs. Amongst the best-known mechanisms is
making INGOs dependent on governments for funding: between 2008
and 2009 alone government funding of humanitarian NGOs is estimated
to have increased by 10 per cent.290 A more direct means of manipula-
tion has been through initiation of GONGOs (government-organized
non-governmental organizations), recent examples of which may include
the International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sover-
eignty (apparently a Russian government front organization)291 and Hugo
Chavez’s Bolivarian Circles.292
â•… States’ resilience in the twenty-first century has been commonly under-
pinned by reinvigorated nationalism. Echoing the situation 100 years
before, it has been argued that ‘in the early twenty-first century ethnic
nationalism appears to be the world’s most ubiquitous, intractable and
devastating socio-political force’.293 While much of the evidence for trans-
national civil society may be impressive, the scale of nationalist senti-
ment may be even greater. A comparison between two of the world’s
largest petitions is indicative: whereas that of the internationalist Jubi-
lee 2000 coalition acquired 24 million adherents in 166 countries, a peti-
tion circulated in China five years later opposing Japanese permanent
membership of the United Nations Security Council appears to have
received the support of 41 million people in forty-one countries.294
â•… The limitations of transnational civil society in the first decade of the
new millennium are explained by a range of factors, including dynamics
both external and internal to transnational civil society. As has been out-
lined in the foregoing paragraphs the geopolitical divisions of the twenty-
first century along regional and religious lines formed the context within
which transnational civil society also became increasingly regionally
divided. The economic downturn towards the end of the decade has fur-
ther been shown to have constrained the resources of transnational civil
society actors. More generally, the broad context of globalization, which
in the late twentieth century was facilitative of the flourishing of trans-
national civil society, at the same time facilitated the development of
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transnational non-state actors that use far from civil methods, such as
global terrorist networks, as well as xenophobic nationalist movements
which may prey on those struggling to compete in the globalized world
economy.295 Even the information technologies which have in some
respects facilitated transnational civil society mobilization have also
proven effective as instruments of governmental monitoring and sup-
pression of civil society activities.296
â•… Transnational civil society itself may have contributed towards the pro-
cesses which limited its operation in the early twenty-first century. The
development of fundamentalist and nationalist groups that challenge the
values of transnational civil society, for instance, may in part be a reac-
tion to a perceived threat to local cultures of the supposedly ‘global’ con-
cerns of transnational civil society actors, which all too commonly have
been susceptible to portrayal as ‘virtually a fifth column for Western inter-
ests’.297 Acceptance of governmental funding by INGOs can enhance
such perceptions, which are compounded by the susceptibility of many
INGOs to accusations of being ‘unelected and accountable only to their
funders’.298 One of the most prominent trends of the twenty-first cen-
tury has been the apparent co-optation of transnational civil society actors
by corporate and governmental agents of neo-liberal globalization, not
only through funding but also through integration in multi-stakeholder
corporate social responsibility schemes. This may have contributed to the
appeal of fundamentalist and nationalist alternatives.
â•… Despite the setbacks of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
transnational civil society actors were not without achievements in this
period. For instance, although there was waning governmental interest
in United Nations global conferences following the ‘mega conferences’
of the 1990s,299 non-governmental access may have increased, such as at
the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
at which civil society representatives were consulted at multiple stages
of negotiations.300 In addition, although the number of new transna-
tional coalitions of INGOs declined, some of those that were established
were not without impact, such as the Cluster Munition Coalition estab-
lished in 2003 which is credited with playing a role in securing the 2008
Convention on Cluster Munitions.301 In respect of humanitarian relief,
it is thought that, in response to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsu-
nami of 2004, INGOs ‘broke new ground’ in terms of the extent of their
contribution.302
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â•… Although the Cold War division of the international trade union move-
ment between the World Federation of Trade Unions and the ‘free’ trade
unions continued into the twenty-first century, other divisions in the
international trade union movement were reconciled, with the ‘Chris-
tian’ trade unions in the World Confederation of Labour joining with
ICFTU in 2006 to form the International Trade Union Confederation
(ITUC). Another notable development in the early twenty-first century
was the proliferation of ‘solidarity economy networks’ that endeavoured
to show how genuine alternatives to neo-liberal economic globalization
were viable, such as the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of
the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS).303 Other novel INGOs took
further the exploitation of new technologies to advance social causes,
notably Avaaz, which ‘operates only through the Internet’, mobilizing
more than 2 million supporters in online petitions on multiple issues,
and which is said to have had an ‘astonishing’ impact at the 2007 Bali
climate change summit, when the Canadian government’s delegation
credited Avaaz with motivating the delegation’s change of position.304
â•… Considerable efforts were also made by existing INGOs to address
criticisms of their accountability and legitimacy. The first decade of the
twenty-first century saw the establishment of new coalitions directly
addressing the issue of INGO accountability, such as the Humanitarian
Accountability Project. In 2006, the International NGOs Accountabil-
ity Charter was launched, aiming to be ‘the authoritative voice and stan-
dard code of practice for all INGOs’.305 Other coalitions made efforts
towards diversifying their membership beyond their rich-country ori-
gins: Publish What You Pay, for example, expanded from a coalition of
six OECD-based groups in 2002 to a global campaign of 600 groups by
2011, four-fifths of which were based in developing countries.306 In the
reverse direction, some INGOs previously based in developing countries
set up fund-raising offices in developed countries: for instance, the
�Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which claims to
be ‘the largest development organisation in the world … employing more
than 60,000 people’ opened ‘resource mobilisation organisations’ in Great
Britain and the United States in 2006.307
â•… The bridging of geographical divides by the transformed structures of
organizations such as BRAC and Publish What You Pay was paralleled
by efforts towards bridging cultural divides by other elements of trans-
national civil society. While peace activism such as that in opposition to
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the Iraq invasion of 2003 may have failed to prevent the intervention, it
has been credited with helping to challenge perceptions of a so-called
‘clash of civilizations’ at the popular level.308 Possibly the largest petition
ever to have been gathered apparently obtained in 2008 the support of
more than 60 million Pakistanis in opposition to terrorism.309 There were
also numerous new initiatives in the early twenty-first century aimed
specifically at the promotion of intercultural dialogue and understand-
ing, such as the Anna Lindh Foundation established in 2005 and claim-
ing to run ‘the largest and most diverse Network of civil society
organizations involved in the promotion of intercultural dialogue across
the Mediterranean’, and the Global Movements of Moderates launched
in Malaysia in 2012 as ‘a loose confederation of like-minded individu-
als, organisations, state-actors, non-state actors and intelligentsia com-
mitted to promoting an enduring and just peace by beseeching the need
for critical engagement that corresponds to the universal principles of
justice, excellence and equilibrium’.310
â•… In regions of the world that at the time remained dominated by illib-
eral forms of government, there were signs of opening up and develop-
ment of civil society space at the onset of the twenty-first century. In
China, for instance, a 700 per cent increase in social unrest instances was
noted in the decade to 2004, as was ‘growth in registered and unregis-
tered NGOs’.311 In 2007, ‘the world’s largest ever text message campaign’
is credited with resulting in the suspension of plans for the building of
a chemical plant in Xiamen.312 Among Arab countries, numerous ‘Arab
reform’ initiatives were launched in the first decade of the twenty-first
century, with 2004 alone witnessing the Arab NGOs Beirut Summit,
the Doha Declaration of Democracy and Reform, the Alexandria Char-
ter and the Sana’a Declaration.313 Initiatives for the promotion of human
rights in Arab states also multiplied, including the Arab Centre for Inter-
national Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Education (2000) and
the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (2003). More sig-
nificantly, protest movements such as Kifaya in Egypt have been associ-
ated with ‘a new emphasis on political ethics and social civility … to
replace preoccupations with “political Islam” of the 1990s’.314
â•… The Arab Spring of 2011, for which movements such as Kifaya pro-
vided part of the context, featured significant transnational dimensions.
In addition to regional dynamics such as the demonstration effects of
developments in Tunisia upon other Arab countries, there were signifi-
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continue to limit the prospects for transnational civil society: while new
liberal actors may have been critical to the protests that facilitated the
removal of authoritarian leaders in the Arab Spring, it is religious move-
ments including and inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that
have tended to benefit electorally.324 As yet, transnational civil society has
not transformed into a truly global civil society.
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remains divided between the World Federation of Trade Unions and the
International Trade Union Confederation. Furthermore, apparent
achievements of transnational civil society in the post-Cold War era,
such as the Ottawa landmines convention, limited debt reduction agree-
ments and the collapse of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment,
appear small indeed when compared with earlier developments to which
transnational civil society contributed, such as the abolition of the slave
trade and women’s enfranchisement in many countries.
â•… As this volume has also revealed, accounts of the origins of the two
World Wars and the Cold War, and perceptions of a supposed ‘clash of
civilizations,’ are also incomplete without reference to transnational civil
society actors. So, while it has been common to believe that the evolu-
tion of transnational civil society has taken place in a linear pattern, this
volume has suggested an alternative, cyclical account. Peaks of transna-
tional civil society activism were reached in the first decade of the twen-
tieth century, the early 1930s and the late 1990s. In each of these periods,
INGOs formed large coalitions around major issues, and made claims
with respect to their apparently unprecedented significance. In all
three cases, such assertions were followed by periods of contraction and
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fragmentation.
â•… Just as globalization and fragmentation in general terms have tended
to exist in a dialectical relationship,3 so too have liberal transnational civil
society actors and illiberal forms of mobilization, whether internation-
alism and nationalism before the First World War, or ‘global justice’ activ-
ism and religious intolerance in the contemporary era. In its exploration
of each of the three major ‘peaks’ and ‘troughs’ of transnational civil soci-
ety activism, this volume has shown the importance of technological
changes, environmental factors, economic developments, social changes
and external political circumstances, as well as of transnational civil soci-
ety itself in explaining the evolution. In the case of all these factors, there
is an important distinction to be made between short-term and long-
term impacts. In some cases, such as the World Wars, factors that in the
short term have been inhibitive of transnational civil society activities
have in the long term facilitated reconstruction. On the other hand, in
the case of many other factors, while in the short term the impact upon
transnational civil society may have been facilitative, in the long term the
factor has also served to undermine the phenomenon.
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178
CONCLUSION
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CONCLUSION
national civil society, a key rationale for the formation of new INGOs
has been to fill an apparent void left following the demise of earlier
groups: this has been observed particularly prominently in the origins of
Amnesty International. In the reverse direction, a consistent theme in
this volume has been the development of over-ambitious goals among
the leadership of some transnational civil society actors just as circum-
stances have turned against them. In each of the three waves of transna-
tional civil society examined in this volume the demise of transnational
civil society was immediately preceded by the creation of large transna-
tional coalitions of INGOs claiming to speak for ‘the most representa-
tive forces of the different countries’ (in the period before the First World
War), the ‘public opinion of the world’ (in the period preceding the Sec-
ond World War) or ‘global civil society’ (in the period preceding the 11
September 2001 attacks). Such claims revealed detachment from the
developing divisions in transnational civil society and the world’s popu-
lation more generally in each of these phases, which were ultimately to
overwhelm transnational civil society on each occasion.
Future Possibilities
The second decade of the twenty-first century appears to be a hinge point
in the development of transnational civil society. With developments at
the start of the decade including recovering INGO numbers and fund-
ing and the upheavals of the Arab Spring, it might be argued that a new
cycle is beginning, recovering from the divisions that marred transna-
tional civil society in the previous decade. On the other hand, many of
the divisive trends of the early twenty-first century appear to be continu-
ing, such as regionalization of INGOs and considerable popular support
for nationalist and religious fundamentalist social movements. Ironically,
the apparent success of liberal democratic social movements in the pop-
ular uprisings of 2011 may be opening up greater political space for those
who challenge the liberal norms commonly associated with transnational
civil society.
â•… If there are any ‘lessons’ for those claiming to represent transnational
civil society that appear to be justified by the narrative put forward in
this volume, it is that care should be taken not to raise expectations to
an excessive degree. The leadership of INGOs and transnational coali-
tions of INGOs should avoid claims to speak on behalf of ‘the public
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pp. [1–3]
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1.╇Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press,
2010), p.â•–316.
2.╇Mary Kaldor, Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003), p.╖7.
3.╇Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor, ‘Introducing Global Civil Society’, in
Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), p.â•–13.
4.╇John Keane, Global Civil Society? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p.╖8.
5.╇Anheier et al., ‘Introducing Global Civil Society’, p.â•–17.
6.╇Ann M. €Florini and P. €J. €Simmons, ‘What the World Needs Now?’, in Ann M. €Florini
(ed.), The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Tokyo: Japan Center for Inter-
national Exchange, 2000), p.â•–7. For further elaboration of the definition of ‘transnational’
see Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, ‘Transnational Relations and World Politics: An
Introduction’, International Organization, 25/3 (1971), p.â•–331.
7.╇Margaret E. €Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp.â•–200, 2.
8.╇Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, p.╖12.
9.╇Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements
and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1997).
10.╇See, for instance, Anheier et al., ‘Introducing Global Civil Society’, pp.â•–4, 15.
11.╇Lyman Cromwell White, The Structure of Private International Organizations (Philadephia,
PA: George S. €Ferguson Company, 1933).
12.╇‘Chapter X. €Economic and Social Council’, http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/
chapter10.shtml, last accessed 29 September 2010.
13.╇United Nations document E/INF/23, 30 April 1948, ‘Arrangements of the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations for Consultation with Non-Governmental Organi-
zations: Guide for Consultants’, p.â•–16, cited in Lyman Cromwell White, International
Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes, Methods and Accomplishments (New York:
Greenwood Press, 1968), p.â•–3.
14.╇The leading repository of data on INGOs—the Union of International Associations—
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pp. [3–5] NOTES
typically includes only organizations operating in three or more countries (in its categories
A to D), although it also lists ‘internationally-oriented national organizations’ (in its cat-
egory G).
15.╇Peter Willetts, ‘What Is A Non-Governmental Organization?’, http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/p.
willetts/CS-NTWKS/NGO-ART.HTM, last accessed 2 August 2010.
16.╇Peter Willetts, Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics: The Construction of Global
Governance (London: Routledge, 2011), p.â•–30.
17.╇Q uotations from Shamima Ahmed and David M. €Potter, NGOs in International Politics
(Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006), p.â•–ix; Craig Warkentin, ‘Nongovernmental Orga-
nizations’, in Jan Aart Scholte and Roland Robertson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Globalization
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), p.â•–883; and Sanjeev Khagram and Sarah Alvord, ‘The Rise
of Civic Transnationalism’, in Srilatha Batliwala and L. €David Brown (eds.), Transnational
Civil Society: An Introduction (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006), pp.â•–66–7.
18.╇Lester M. €Salamon, Helmut K. €Anheier and Associates, ‘Civil Society in Comparative
Perspective’, in Lester M. €Salamon, Helmut K. €Anheier, Regina List, Stefan Toepler,
S. €Wojciech Sokolowski and Associates (eds.), Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Non-
profit Sector (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999), p.â•–4;
Kaldor, Global Civil Society.
19.╇Paul S. €Reinsch, Public International Unions: Their Work and Organization: A Study In
International Administrative Law (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1911), pp.â•–2, 4.
20.╇White, Structure of Private International Organizations, p.╖11.
21.╇John Boli and George M. €Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Non-
Governmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999);
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the
Contemporary World (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002), p.â•–11.
22.╇Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 1908–9 and 1910–11
(Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1909, 1911).
23.╇Anheier et al., ‘Introducing Global Civil Society’, p.â•–4. See also Charles Chatfield, ‘Inter-
governmental and Non-Governmental Associations to 1945’, in Jackie Smith, Charles
Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics:
Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), p.â•–21.
24.╇While there is some attention in existing literature to the period preceding 1850, the
coverage remains limited. See, however, Ian Clark, International Legitimacy and World
Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); and Steve Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of
Participation: NGOs and International Governance’, Michigan Journal of International Law,
183 (1996–7), pp.â•–183–286.
25.╇John M. €Hobson, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004).
26.╇The ‘English School’ of international relations, in particular, had a tendency to discuss the
evolution of world politics in terms of the expansion of European international society; see
Hedley Bull and Adam Watson (eds.), The Expansion of International Society (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1984).
27.╇Michael Barnett, Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2011), p.â•–16.
28.╇Iriye, Global Community, for instance, limits its coverage to six themes.
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NOTES pp. [5–10]
29.╇Jessica T. €Matthews, ‘Power Shift: The Rise of Global Civil Society’, Foreign Affairs, 76/1
(1997), pp.â•–50, 53.
30.╇A notable example is Gordon Laxer and Sandra Halperin (eds.), Global Civil Society and
its Limits (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
31.╇Ashwani Kumar, ‘Global Civil Society: Emergent Forms of Cosmopolitan Democracy and
Justice’, in Ashwani Kumar and Dirk Messner (eds.), Power Shifts and Global Governance:
Challenges from South and North (London: Anthem Press, 2010), p.â•–45.
32.╇Ahmed and Potter, NGOs in International Politics, p.╖21.
33.╇These include Matthews, ‘Power Shift’; Florini, Third Force; and Don Eberly, The Rise of
Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up (New York, NY:
Encounter Books, 2008).
34.╇See especially Iriye, Global Community.
35.╇Not all existing studies put forward a purely linear perspective: for instance, Charnovitz,
‘Two Centuries’ puts forward a cyclical perspective with respect to INGO influence on
intergovernmental bodies, and Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture notes dips in
INGO foundations in the 1910s and 1930s.
36.╇John Boli, ‘International Nongovernmental Organizations’, in Walter W. €Powell and Rich-
ard Steinberg, The Non-Profit Sector: A Research Handbook (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2nd edn, 2006), p.â•–334. Some have noted a diminution since then; see Jackie Smith,
‘Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizations’, in Gerald F. €Davis,
Doug McAdam, W. €Richard Scott and Mayer N. €Zald (eds.), Social Movements and
Organization Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p.â•–233.
37.╇Union of International Associations, ‘L’Union des Associations Internationales et la Con-
stitution d’un Centre International’, in Union of International Associations, Annuaire de
la Vie Internationale. Séconde série. Volume II. €1910–1911 (Brussels: Office Central des
Associations Internationales, 1912), pp.â•–33–5.
38.╇Khagram and Alvord, ‘Rise of Civic Transnationalism’, p.â•–67.
39.╇Helmut K. €Anheier, Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan,
2004), p.â•–3; Helmut Anheier, ‘Measuring Global Civil Society’, in Anheier et al., Global
Civil Society 2001, p.â•–221.
40.╇Thomas Richard Davies, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Dis-
armament between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007), p.â•–114.
41.╇Anheier, ‘Measuring Global Civil Society’, p.â•–229.
42.╇Hedley Bull, ‘International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach’, World Politics, 18/3
(1966), p.â•–361.
43.╇Numerous publications influenced the composition of this table: see the books cited through-
out this volume. Amongst the most significant were: Akira Iriye, Global Community: The
Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2002); Margaret E. €Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists
Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1998); Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768–2004 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publish-
ers, 2004); Dieter Rucht, ‘The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes,
Problems’, in Donatella della Porta, Hanspeter Kriesi and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Move-
ments in a Globalizing World (London: Macmillan, 1999), pp.â•–206–22; Michael Edwards
and John Gaventa (eds.), Global Citizen Action (London: Earthscan, 2001); Joe Bandy and
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Jackie Smith (eds.), Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005); Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation:
International Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997);
Geir Lundestad, ‘Why Does Globalization Encourage Fragmentation?’, International
Politics, 41 (2004), pp.â•–265–76; and David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and
Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (Cambridge:
Polity Press, 1999).
44.╇A broad array of literature was taken into account in the production of this analytical
framework, including that on NGO life cycles, social movement cycles of contention, and
the explanatory frameworks in Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries’, and Boli and Thomas, Con-
structing World Culture.
45.╇On this point, see especially Manuel Castells’ trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society
and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996–8). See also Jodi Dean, Jon W. €Anderson and Geert
Lovink (eds.), Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society (Abing-
don: Routledge, 2006).
46.╇On the role of technology in the development of transnational civil society in the nineteenth
century see Keane, Global Civil Society?, pp.â•–44–5.
47.╇INGOs dealing with information and communications technology consistently raise con-
cerns about this; see, for instance, Association for Progressive Communications, ‘Three
Cyber Evils in South Korea’, http://www.apc.org/en/news/three-cyber-evils-south-korea,
last accessed 4 October 2010.
48.╇Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Albany, NY: State Univer-
sity of New York Press, 1996), pp.â•–21, 2.
49.╇See, for instance, Peter H. €Gleick, ‘Environment and Security: The Clear Connections’,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 47/3 (April 1991), pp.â•–17–21.
50.╇Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, pp.â•–24–30.
51.╇Keane, Global Civil Society?, pp.╖46, 66.
52.╇White, International Non-Governmental Organizations, p.╖6.
53.╇Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, p.╖27.
54.╇Kaldor, Global Civil Society, p.╖112.
55.╇Susan D. €Moeller, Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
(New York: Routledge, 1999).
56.╇Noha Shawki, ‘Political Opportunity Structures and the Outcomes of Transnational Cam-
paigns: A Comparison of Two Transnational Advocacy Networks’, Peace & Change, 35/3
(2010), pp.â•–381–411.
57.╇Jackie Smith, ‘Characteristics of the Modern Transnational Movement Sector’, in Smith
et al., Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics, p.â•–57.
58.╇Louis Kriesberg, ‘Social Movements and Global Transformation’, in Smith et al., Transna-
tional Social Movements and Global Politics, pp.â•–4–7.
59.╇Kaldor, Global Civil Society, p.╖118.
60.╇Smith, ‘Characteristics of the Modern Transnational Social Movement Sector’, p.â•–57.
61.╇Anheier et al., ‘Introducing Global Civil Society’, p.â•–7.
62.╇Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, p.â•–270.
63.╇Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, p.╖28.
64.╇Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, p.â•–269.
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1.╇EMERGENCE TO 1914
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11.╇Richard L. €Greaves, ‘The “Great Persecution” Reconsidered: The Irish Quakers and the
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37.╇Universal Society of the Friends of the People, Universal Society of the Friends of the People
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40.╇William Frederick Poole, Anti-Slavery Opinions before the year 1800 (Cincinnati: Robert
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43.╇On the history of the West India Committee, see Douglas Hall, A Brief History of the West
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44.╇Its website is at http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com. On the Asiatic Society’s early history,
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(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988); and Shiv Visvanathan, Organizing for Science: The
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48.╇Annual Register, 1806, p.╖407.
49.╇Royal Jennerian Society, The Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-Pox
(London: James Swan, 1817), pp.â•–22–6.
50.╇Royal Jennerian Society, The Royal Jennerian Society, p.╖6.
51.╇Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, Report of the Committee of the Society for
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56.╇Ceadel, Origins of War Prevention, pp.â•–141–51.
57.╇Ibid., p.╖ 12.
58.╇New York Peace Society, ‘Origin of Peace Societies in this Country’, Advocate of Peace, 2,
1838, p.â•–157.
59.╇Martin Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Rela-
tions, 1854–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p.â•–23.
60.╇I bid., chapter 2.
61.╇Revue Encyclopédique, vol.â•–27 (1825), pp.â•–21–2.
62.╇I bid., vol.╖1 (1819), p.╖17.
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1971), p.â•–74.
303.╇Hunt Janin, The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century ( Jefferson, NC:
McFarland and Company, 1999), p.â•–178.
304.╇Annie Stora-Lamarre, ‘Censorship in Republican Times: Censorship and Pornographic
Novels Located in L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1800–1900’, in Lisa Z. €Sigel
(ed.), International Exposure: Perspectives of Modern European Pornography, 1800–2000
(Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), pp.â•–60–1. An International Bureau against
Immoral Literature had been formed in 1893.
305.╇Q uoted in Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖268.
306.╇Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖270.
307.╇World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, ‘Constitution and By-Laws of the World’s
W.C.T.U.’, in World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Minutes of the Second Bien-
nial Convention (Chicago, IL: Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association, 1893), p.â•–296.
308.╇Ian R. €Tyrrell, Woman’s World/Woman’s Empire: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
in International Perspective, 1880–1930 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 1991), p.â•–223.
309.╇Melanie Nolan and Caroline Daley, ‘International Feminist Perspectives on Suffrage: An
Introduction’, in Carline Daley and Melanie Nolan (eds.), Suffrage and Beyond: International
Feminist Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 1994), p.â•–13.
310.╇National Woman Suffrage Association, Report of the International Council of Women assem-
bled by the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, DC, United States of America,
March 25 to April 1, 1888 (Washington, DC: Rufus H. €Darby, 1888), p.╖451.
311.╇Richard Evans, The Feminists: Women’s Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and
Australasia, 1840-1920 (London: Croom Helm, 1977), p. 250.
312.╇Evans, The Feminists, pp.â•–246–7. France was nevertheless important in the development
of women’s participation in freemasonry, with the creation of the International Order of
Co-Freemasonry in 1893.
313.╇Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, p.╖62.
314.╇Kumari Jayawardena, The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia
during British Colonial Rule (London: Routledge, 1995), pp.â•–55–6.
315.╇Article 2 of its constitution, quoted in Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖277.
316.╇T. € Fallot, Une Noble Entreprise: L’Union Internationale des Amies de la Jeune Fille (Valence:
A. €Ducros, 1902), p.╖77; Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖278. Similar objectives were
pursued by the Travelers’ Aid Societies that developed in late-nineteenth-century USA
and by the Catholic Association for the Protection of Girls, created in 1897.
317.╇Josephine E. €Butler, The New Abolitionists: A Narrative of a Year’s Work, Being an Account
203
pp. [60–62] NOTES
of the Mission undertaken to the Continent of Europe by Mrs Josephine E Butler, and of the
Events Subsequent Thereupon (London: Dyer Brothers, 1876), p.â•–103.
318.╇Stephanie A. €Limoncelli, The Politics of Trafficking: The First International Movement to
Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010),
pp.â•–44, 46.
319.╇Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖280; Limoncelli, Politics of Trafficking, p.╖46.
320.╇Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860–1914 (London: Rout-
ledge, 2000), p.â•–156.
321.╇Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, p.â•–203; Lyons, Internationalism in Europe,
p.â•–280.
322.╇National Vigilance Association, The White Slave Trade: Transactions of the International
Congress of the White Slave Trade Held in London on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd June 1899 (Lon-
don: Office of the National Vigilance Association, 1899), pp.â•–13–18; Minutes of the Inter-
national Congress on the White Slave Traffic held at Westminster Palace Hotel on June 21st,
22nd and 23rd 1899, 4IBS/1/1, Box FL192, Archives of the International Bureau for the
Suppression of Traffic in Persons, Women’s Library, London; Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries
of Participation’, p.â•–203.
323.╇Harriet Hyman Alonso, Peace as a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. €Movement for World
Peace and Women’s Rights (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993), pp.â•–45–6, 49,
54.
324.╇Sandi Cooper, ‘The Work of Women in Nineteenth Century Continental European Peace
Movements’, Peace & Change, 9/4 (1983), pp.â•–19–20.
325.╇Le Désarmement Général: Organe de la Ligue Internationale des Femmes pour le Désarmement
Général, 1/1 ( July 1896), p.â•–7.
326.╇Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists, p.╖137.
327.╇Ralph Uhlig, Die Interparliamentarische Union, 1889–1914 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Ver-
lag, 1988), p.â•–69.
328.╇Cesar Facelli and Antonio Teso, Troisième Congrès International de la Paix (Rome: Unione
Cooperativa Editrice, 1892), pp.â•–114–18.
329.╇The ‘for Arbitration’ part of the latter organization’s name was dropped in 1908. Ceadel,
Semi-Detached Idealists, pp.â•–137–8.
330.╇Organizations for international law were preceded by the creation of a Society for Com-
parative Legislation in Paris in 1869; see Peter Cruz, Comparative Law in a Changing
World (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2nd edn 1999), p.â•–15.
331.╇International Law Association, Reports of the First Conference held at Brussels, 1873, and of
the Second Conference held at Geneva, 1874 (London: West, Newman & Co., 1903), p.â•–44.
332.╇Institute of International Law, Annuaire de l’Institut de Droit International. Première Année
(Gand: Bureau de la Revue de Droit International, 1877), pp.â•–18–19 (translation from
http://www.idi-iil.org, last accessed 9 April 2010, where present text of statutes is identi-
cal to original).
333.╇Masaharu Yanagihara, ‘Message from the President, Oct. 2009’, http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/
jsil/english_contents/president/index.html, last accessed 18 November 2010.
334.╇The earlier Berlin Congress of 1878 is notable for being the first intergovernmental meet-
ing to adopt a specific procedure for receiving petitions; see Lie, Right of Petition, section
15, p.â•–17. Another precedent was set at the 1889–90 Brussels Slave Trade Conference,
204
NOTES pp. [62–65]
lobbied by the BFASS and the Aborigines Protection Society, which resulted in a treaty
that included a clause aiming to ‘encourage, aid and protect’ private abolitionist societies;
see Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, p.â•–196.
335.╇Sandi Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815–1914 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991), pp.â•–91, 94.
336.╇Merze Tate, The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907
(New York: Macmillan, 1942), pp.â•–70–3.
337.╇Thomas K. €Ford, ‘The Genesis of the First Hague Peace Conference’, Political Science
Quarterly, 51/3 (1936), p.â•–381.
338.╇Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, p.╖98.
339.╇Ute Kätzel, ‘A Radical Women’s Rights and Peace Activist: Margarethe Lenore Selenka,
Initiator of the First Worldwide Women’s Peace Demonstration in 1899’, Journal of
Women’s History, 13/3 (2001), p.â•–51.
340.╇Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, p.â•–197.
341.╇I bid., p.╖197; Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, p.╖98.
342.╇Reinalda, Routledge History of International Organizations, p.╖69.
343.╇Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, p.╖103.
344.╇Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, p.╖14.
345.╇At the first international cooperative congress, Owen Greening estimated the movement’s
membership in 1895 to be 5 to 6 million, or 20 million if the family members of each
individual member were to be included: ICA, Report, p.â•–49.
346.╇Katharine L. €Stevenson, A Brief History of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: Out-
line Course of Study for Local Unions (Evanston, IL: The Union Signal, 1907), p.â•–56.
347.╇Paul Wapner, ‘Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Pol-
itics’, World Politics, 47/3 (1995), pp.â•–311–40.
348.╇Angus Maddison, Monitoring the World Economy, 1820–1992 (Paris: Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, 1995), p.â•–239.
349.╇Imre Ferenczi and Walter F. €Willcox, International Migrations, Volume I: Statistics (New
York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1929), pp.â•–231–2.
350.╇See, for example, the figures in Union of International Associations, Yearbook of International
Organizations 1981, section U; and Union of International Associations, ‘Yearbook of
International Organizations Online’, http://www.uia.be/yearbook, last accessed 11 Decem-
ber 2011. Speeckaert noted a rise in INGO foundations from forty in the 1880s to seventy-
three in the 1890s: Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales, p.â•–viii.
351.╇Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖368.
352.╇Frederick W. € Haberman, Nobel Lectures in Peace, 1901–1925 (Singapore: World Scientific
Publishing, 1999), pp.â•–3–4.
353.╇Colette Chabbott, ‘Development INGOs’, in John Boli and George M. €Thomas (eds.),
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stan-
ford, CA: Stanford University Press), p.â•–229. A year before the formation of the Carnegie
Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was created ‘to hasten the
abolition of international war’, the Board of Trustees of which chose to concentrate its
attention upon educational and scientific activities: Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, Epitome of the Purpose, Plans and Methods of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1919), pp.â•–7–8.
205
pp. [65–68] NOTES
The Carnegie Endowment was preceded by other organizations for the study of interna-
tional relations, such as the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales and the Association for
International Conciliation, created in Paris in 1904 and 1905 respectively.
354.╇Chesley R. €Perry, ‘A Page From Rotary History’, The Rotarian, February 1931, p.â•–43.
355.╇The Rotarian, September 1912.
356.╇Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 1908–1909, pp.â•–689,
865, 889; Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the
Making of the Contemporary World (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002),
p.â•–15; Société Universelle de la Croix Blanche de Genève, Compte-Rendu des Travaux du
1er Congrès International pour la Répression des Fraudes Alimentaires et Pharmaceutiques,
Genève, les 8–12 Septembre 1908 (Geneva: Isaac Soullier, 1909).
357.╇Its activities were preceded by the largely unsuccessful attempts from 1889 to form an
international Vegetarian Federal Union in London: International Vegetarian Union,
‘Vegetarian Federal Union, 1889–1911’, http://www.ivu.org/history/vfu/index.html, last
accessed 23 November 2010.
358.╇These were known at the time as the International Association of Refrigeration and the
Permanent International Association of Road Congresses.
359.╇Comité Central de l’Exposition du Travail à Domicile, 1er Congrès International du Travail
à Domicile réuni à Bruxelles en Septembre 1910. Compte Rendu des Séances (Louvain: Charles
Peeters, 1911); Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale
1908–1909, pp.â•–1117–18.
360.╇Pierre-Yves Saunier, ‘Sketches from the Urban Internationale, 1910–50: Voluntary Asso-
ciations, International Institutions and US Philanthropic Foundations’, International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25/2 (2001), pp.â•–380–403.
361.╇International Federation of Trade Unions, First Special International Trade Union Congress,
London, November 22–27, 1920 (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1920), pp.â•–2–3.
362.╇Van Goethem, Amsterdam International, p.╖15.
363.╇Q uoted in van Goethem, Amsterdam International, p.╖16.
364.╇Negib Azoury, Le Réveil de la Nation Arabe dans l’Asie Turque (Paris: Plon, 1905), pp.â•–245–
6.
365.╇Brief information on most of the organizations listed in this paragraph is available at
Union of International Associations, ‘Yearbook of International Organizations Online’,
http://www.uia.be/yearbook, last accessed 19 November 2010.
366.╇Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, pp.â•–230–4.
367.╇International Labour Office, International Labour Standards, p.╖5. Plans for much more
extensive labour standards were cut short by the onset of the First World War: Lyons,
Internationalism in Europe, pp.â•–154–5.
368.╇Tate, Disarmament Illusion, p.╖34.
369.╇Caroline E. €Playne, Bertha von Suttner and the Struggle to Avert the World War (London:
George Allen and Unwin, 1936), p.â•–155; Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’,
p.â•–197.
370.╇Ascherson, King Incorporated, pp.╖254, 259.
371.╇Charnovitz, ‘Two Centuries of Participation’, pp.â•–207–10.
372.╇W illiam O. €Walker III, Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in
Asia, 1912–1954 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), p.â•–15.
206
NOTES pp. [68–72]
373.╇National American Woman Suffrage Association, Report. First International Woman Suf-
frage Conference held at Washington, USA, February 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1902, in
connection with and by invitation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (New
York: International Woman Suffrage Headquarters, 1902), p.â•–17. The women’s movement
was also joined by more traditionalist INGOs in this period, such as Pro Gentilezza, a
women’s INGO formed in Rome in 1910 that aimed to promote ‘la propre gentilesse’:
Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 1910–1911.
374.╇Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, 1 (1904), p.╖5.
375.╇International Electrotechnical Commission, Report of Preliminary Meeting held at the Hotel
Cecil, London, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 26th and 27th 1906 (London: International
Electrotechnical Commission, 1906), p.â•–6.
376.╇International Dairy Federation, Congrès International de Laiterie organisé par la Société
Nationale de Laiterie de Belgique, Bruxelles, 8, 9, 10 et 11 Septembre 1903: Compte Rendu des
Séances; Voeux Émis (Brussels: K. €Brants & Co., 1904), pp.â•–1–3, 147–8, 159–60.
377.╇International Committee of the International Congress of Delegated Representatives of
Master Cotton-Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations, Official Report of the Proceedings
of the First International Congress of Delegated Representatives of Master Cotton Spinners’
and Manufacturers’ Associations held at the Tonhalle, Zürich, May 23 to 27, 1904 (London:
Marsden, 1904), p.â•–60.
378.╇Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 1908–1909, p.â•–942.
379.╇Erik Bergvall (ed.), The Fifth Olympiad: The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm
1912 (Stockholm: Wahlström and Widstrand, 1913), pp.â•–420–1.
380.╇These statistics are based on calculations using the data in the Union of International
Associations’ Yearbook of International Organizations. Speeckaert estimated the increase to
be from 73 in the 1890s to 192 in the 1900s: Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Interna-
tionales, p.â•–viii.
381.╇Details of these bodies can be found in the 1908–1909 and 1910–1911 editions of the
Union of International Associations’ Annuaire de la Vie Internationale.
382.╇‘Historique de l’Union des Associations Internationales’, box PP-PO-210, Union of
International Associations Archives, Mundaneum, Mons.
383.╇Georges Patrick Speeckaert, ‘A Glance at Sixty Years of Activity (1910–1970) of the Union
of International Associations’, in Union of International Associations, Union of Interna-
tional Associations, 1910–1970: Past, Present, Future (Brussels: Union of International
Associations, 1970), p.â•–27.
384.╇‘Letter of Invitation’, in Office Central des Associations Internationales, Congrès Mondial
des Associations Internationales, Bruxelles, 9–11 Mai 1910 (Brussels: Office Central des
Associations Internationales, 1911), p.â•–10.
385.╇Office Central des Associations Internationales, Congrès Mondial des Associations Interna-
tionales 1910, pp.â•–831–7, 839–74.
386.╇Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations, pp.╖7, 11.
387.╇Union of International Associations, Congrès Mondial des Associations Internationales,
Bruxelles, 15–18 Juin 1913 (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1914), pp.â•–ii,
cxlvi.
388.╇Q uoted in Joll, Second International, p.╖156.
389.╇Boston Chamber of Commerce, Fifth International Congress of Chamber of Commerce and
207
pp. [72–75] NOTES
Commercial and Industrial Associations, September and October 1912 (Boston, MA: Boston
Chamber of Commerce, 1913), p.â•–10.
390.╇Norman Angell, Europe’s Optical Illusion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
& Co., n.d.), p.â•–118.
391.╇Ibid., p.╖ 120.
392.╇Ibid., p.╖ 104.
393.╇Q uoted in Olga Hess Hankin and H. €H. €Fisher, The Bolsheviks and the World War: The
Origins of the Third International (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1940), pp.â•–56–7.
394.╇Hoffman, Civil Society, pp.â•–76–7.
395.╇Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men, p.╖334.
396.╇Q uoted in Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Hurst & Co., 2008),
p.â•–50.
397.╇Ibid., p.╖ 51.
398.╇Richard Evans, Rereading German History, 1800–1996: From Unification to Reunification
(London: Routledge, 1997), p.â•–147.
399.╇Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics I: Papers Communicated to the First
International Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1912), pp.â•–xi-xvii.
400.╇Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics II: Report of Proceedings of the First
International Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1913), pp.â•–5, 189.
401.╇Paul Rich, ‘“The Baptism of a New Era”: The 1911 Universal Races Congress and the
Liberal Ideology of Race’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 7/4 (1984), p.â•–534.
402.╇Executive Council of the Universal Races Congress, Record of the Proceedings of the First
Universal Races Congress (London: P. €S. €King, 1911), p.╖2.
403.╇Michael D. €Biddiss, ‘The Universal Races Congress of 1911’, Race, 13/1 (1971), pp.â•–38,
45.
404.╇Jean Pélissier and *** (i.e. Jean Gabrys), Les Principaux Artisans de la Renaissance Nationale
Lituanienne: Hommes et Choses de Lituanie (Lausanne: Bureau d’Informations de Lituanie,
1918), p.â•–206.
405.╇On the early history of the Office Central see Les Annales des Nationalités,1/2 ( Juin-
Juillet 1912), pp.â•–66–9.
406.╇Les Annales des Nationalités, 2/1 ( Janvier 1913), rear inside cover.
407.╇D. €R. €Watson ‘Jean Pélissier and the Office Central des Nationalités, 1912–1919’, Eng-
lish Historical Review, 110, 1995, p.â•–1191.
408.╇Les Annales des Nationalités, 1/1 ( Janvier 1912), p.â•–1; Les Annales des Nationalités, 2/1
( Janvier 1913), p.â•–54.
409.╇Les Annales des Nationalités, 2/1 ( Janvier 1913), p.â•–37.
410.╇Paul Otlet, ‘A World Charter’, Advocate of Peace, 79/2 (1917), p.â•–44.
411.╇The plans for the third conference are in Union of International Associations, Les Congrès
de 1915 à San Francisco: La 3e Session du Congrès Mondial des Associations Internationales
(Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1914).
412.╇Otlet’s documentation of this event is in boxes PP-PO-168, PP-PO-169 and PP-PO-236,
Union of International Associations Archives, Mundaneum, Mons. The proceedings are
in Union of Nationalities, Compte Rendu de la IIIme Conférence des Nationalités réunie à
Lausanne 27–29 Juin 1916 (Lausanne: Office Central de l’Union des Nationalités, 1917).
413.╇Alfred Erich Senn, ‘Garlawa: A Study in Emigré Intrigue, 1915–1917’ (1967), pp.â•–418–20.
208
NOTES pp. [75–78]
414.╇Watson, ‘Jean Pélissier and the Office Central’, p.â•–1198; Georges-Henri Soutou, ‘Jean
Pélissier et l’Office Central des Nationalités, 1911–1918: Renseignement et Influence’,
Rélations Internationales, 78 (1994), pp.â•–153–74.
415.╇Watson, ‘Jean Pélissier and the Office Central’, p.â•–1205; Senn, ‘Garlawa’, p.â•–424.
416.╇John Boli and George M. €Thomas, ‘World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of
International Non-Governmental Organization’, American Sociological Review, 62/2 (1997),
p.â•–175; Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, p.â•–24.
417.╇Calculations based on UIA data. Speeckaert noted a fall from 131 INGO foundations in
1905–9 to 112 in 1910–14: Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales, p.â•–viii.
418.╇Union of International Associations, ‘Un siècle de Réunions internationales’, Monthly
Review ( January 1949), p.â•–6.
419.╇Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Cen-
tury (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.â•–47–8.
420.╇Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.╖369.
421.╇Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations: A World Center,
p.â•–6.
422.╇On the promotion of nationalism by transnational civil society actors in the early twen-
tieth century, see the above discussion of LIPL, the Union of International Associations
and the Union of Nationalities.
423.╇Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience, p.╖72.
2.╇1914–1939
1.╇Some recent work is addressing this deficit: see, for instance, Thomas Richard Davies, The
Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World
Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007); and Daniel Laqua (ed.), Internationalism Reconfigured:
Transnational Ideas and Movements between the World Wars (London: I. €B. €Tauris, 2011).
2.╇Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Civil Society, 1750–1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2006), p.â•–82.
3.╇See, for instance, Zara Steiner, The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919–
1933 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
4.╇Philip Marshall Brown, International Society: Its Nature and Interests (New York: Macmillan,
1923), p.â•–120. See also Pitman Potter, An Introduction to the Study of International Organiza-
tion (New York: The Century Co., 1922), pp.â•–289–301; and Lyman Cromwell White, The
Structure of Private International Organizations (Philadephia, PA: George S. €Ferguson Com-
pany, 1933), pp.â•–11–12.
5.╇Disarmament, 15 February 1932, p.╖6.
6.╇Lyman Cromwell White, International Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes,
Methods and Accomplishments (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), p.â•–5.
7.╇Calculations based on Union of International Associations (UIA) data. Speeckaert estimated
a decline in INGO foundations from 112 in 1910–14 to 51 in 1915–19: Georges Patrick
Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales Fondées depuis le Congrès de Vienne (Brus-
sels: Union of International Associations, 1957), p.â•–viii.
8.╇Edmund David Cronon, Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (Madison, WN: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), pp.â•–16–17.
209
pp. [78–82] NOTES
9.╇Marcus Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (London: Frank Cass, 1967),
p.â•–129.
10.╇Peter Macalister Smith, International Humanitarian Assistance: Disaster Relief Actions in
International Law and Organization (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), pp.â•–11–12.
11.╇Near East Foundation, ‘Near East Foundation Celebrates 90th Year’, http://www.neareast.
org/images/uploads/90thanniv_1.pdf, last accessed 2 December 2010, p.â•–1.
12.╇Federación Odontológica Latinoamericana, ‘Un poco de Historia…’, http://www.folaoral.
com/quienes_somos_historia.htm, last accessed 2 December 2010.
13.╇Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, ‘History’, http://www.bori.ac.in/history.htm, last
accessed 2 December 2010.
14.╇East African Women’s League, ‘Formation of the EAWL’, http://www.eawl.org/Forma-
tion%20of%20the%20EAWL.html, last accessed 2 December 2010.
15.╇R. €Craig Nation, War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist
Internationalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989), pp.â•–99–101.
16.╇Q uoted in Nation, War on War, p.╖101.
17.╇Ibid., p.╖ 101.
18.╇Robert V. € Daniels, A Documentary History of Communism, Volume 2: Communism and the
World (London: I. €B. €Tauris, 1987), p.╖5.
19.╇Quoted in Daniel Gorman, ‘Ecumenical Internationalism: Willoughby Dickinson, the
League of Nations, and the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through
the Churches’, Journal of Contemporary History, 45/1 (2010), p.â•–57.
20.╇World Union of Women for International Concord, The World Union of Women for Inter-
national Concord Founded at Geneva, Switzerland, February 1915 (Geneva: World Union of
Women for International Concord, 1915), p.â•–3.
21.╇International Women’s Committee of Permanent Peace, International Congress of Women,
The Hague, 28th April—May 1st 1915: Report (Amsterdam: International Women’s Com-
mittee for Permanent Peace, 1915), p.â•–42.
22.╇Q uoted in Leonard Woolf (ed.), The Framework of a Lasting Peace (London: George Allen
and Unwin, 1917), p.â•–63.
23.╇Martin Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Rela-
tions, 1854–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p.â•–204.
24.╇Léon Bourgeois, Pour la Société des Nations (Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1910).
25.╇Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists, pp.â•–204–5.
26.╇Q uoted in Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists, p.╖206.
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29.╇Leonard Woolf, International Government (New York: Brentano’s, 1916), p.â•–166.
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31.╇Ibid., p.╖ 173.
32.╇David Hunter Miller, The Drafting of the Covenant, Volume One (New York: G. €P. €Putnam’s
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33.╇League of Nations Journal and Monthly Report, February 1919, p.╖72.
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50.╇Ibid., p.╖ 108.
51.╇Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, Building Peace, p.╖xiii.
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129.╇Ibid., p.╖ 441.
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pp. [171–73] NOTES
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NOTES pp. [175–182]
CONCLUSION
1.╇Shamima Ahmed and David M. €Potter, NGOs in International Politics (Bloomfield, CT:
Kumarian Press, 2006), p.â•–ix.
2.╇See the discussion in Chapter 2 for further details.
3.╇Geir Lundestad, ‘Why does Globalization Encourage Fragmentation?’, International Politics,
41/2 (2004), pp.â•–265–76.
4.╇The evidence and references for the material in this paragraph are provided in Chapter 1.
For each of the next two paragraphs, see Chapters 2 and 3 respectively.
5.╇For more detailed treatment of the themes discussed here in relation to each of the three
waves in turn, see Chapters 1, 2 and 3. On the general framework of explanatory factors, see
the Introduction.
6.╇On the transnational history research agenda more generally, see Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves
Saunier (eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Mac-
millan, 2009).
7.╇Thomas Richard Davies, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarma-
ment between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007) explored one example of
a significant unsuccessful transnational civil society campaign. The present volume has
highlighted many other possibilities for exploration.
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For bibliographic details of the items cited in this book, please see the footnotes to the indi-
vidual chapters. Rather than following the chronological approach of the book, this guide to
further reading is divided into different aspects of the history of transnational civil society and
international non-governmental organizations. It provides a selection of secondary texts and a
few especially significant primary sources, each of which is illustrative of the wider material. It
covers a sample of aspects of transnational civil society activities, but it has not been possible
to include here every aspect covered in the text, nor has it been possible to include every pos-
sible source of relevant further reading. The listings should nevertheless be helpful to those seek-
ing to make a start on investigating further the issues covered in this volume.
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Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (London: Verso, 1988).
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Temperley, Howard, British Anti-Slavery, 1833–1870 (Columbia, SC: University of South
�Carolina Press, 1972).
Business
Cutler, A. Claire, Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global
€
243
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Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Sigrid Quack (eds.), Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Eco-
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Graz, Jean-Christophe, and Andreas Nölke (eds.), Transnational Private Governance and its
Limits (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008).
Hall, Douglas, A Brief History of the West India Committee (St Lawrence, Barbados: Caribbean
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€
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in David J. Starkey and Gelina Harlaftis (eds.), Global Markets: The Internationalization of
€
the Sea Transport Industries since 1850 (St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime
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Wurm, Clemens A., International Cartels and Foreign Policy (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1989).
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Allen, W.O.B., and Edmund McClure, Two Hundred Years: The History of the Society for
244
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Anheier, Helmut K., Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan, 2004).
Anheier, Helmut, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001 (Oxford:
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Kaldor, Mary, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow (eds.), Global Civil Society 2012: Ten
€
245
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€
and Associates (eds.), Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector (Baltimore, MD:
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€
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246
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(London: I. B. Tauris, 1987).€ €
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1998).
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Propaganda Tsar in the West (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003).
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tion’, World Politics, 9/1 (1956), pp.â•–76–87.
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€
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€
247
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€
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See also the entries on Development and Health.
Imperialism
Ascherson, Neal, The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo (London: Granta,
1999).
Hallett, Robin (ed.), Records of the African Association, 1788–1831 (London: Thomas Nelson,
1964).
255
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Harland-Jacobs, Jessica L., Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717–1927
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
(London: Pan Macmillan, 1999).
Morel, Edmund D., King Leopold’s Rule in Africa (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company,
1905).
International relations
Dockrill, M. L., ‘The Foreign Office and the “Proposed Institute of International Affairs 1919”’,
€
International Relations (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005).
Parmar, Inderjeet, ‘Anglo-American Elites in the Interwar Years: Idealism and Power in the
Intellectual Roots of Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations’, International
Relations, 16/1 (2002), pp.â•–53–75.
Parmar, Inderjeet, Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and
Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
1939–1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Shoup, Laurence H., and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Rela-
tions and United States Foreign Policy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977). See also the
entries on Global governance.
Islam
Ahmad, Irfan, Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami (Princ-
eton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
Ansari, Humayun, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (London: Hurst & Co.,
2004).
Ayoob, Mohammed, The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
Benthall, Jonathan, and Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan, The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the
Muslim World (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003).
€ €
Burdett, Anita L. P. (ed.), Islamic Movements in the Arab World, 1913–1966 (Slough: Archive
€ €
Editions, 1998).
Cooke, Miriam, and Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.), Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop (�Chapel
€
256
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Minault, Gail, The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1982).
Mitchell, Richard Paul, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1993).
Özcan, Azmi, Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain, 1877–1924 (Leiden:
Brill, 1997).
Rubin, Barry, The Muslim Brotherhood: The Organization and Policies of a Global Islamist Move-
ment (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Trinningham, J. Spencer, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
€
Voll, John Obert, ‘Islam as a Special World-System’, Journal of World History, 5/2 (1994),
pp.â•–213–26.
Judaism
Comité Exécutif du Congrès Juif Mondial, Protocole du Premier Congrès Juif Mondial, Genève,
8–15 Août 1936 (Geneva: Comité Exécutif du Congrès Juif Mondial, 1936).
Executive of the Zionist Organization, The Jubilee of the First Zionist Congress, 1897–1947 ( Jeru-
salem: Executive of the Zionist Organization, 1947).
Garai, George (ed.), 40 Years in Action: A Record of the World Jewish Congress, 1936–1976 (Geneva:
World Jewish Congress, 1976).
Kedourie, Elie, ‘The Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860–1960’, in Elie Kedourie, Arab Political
Memoirs and Other Studies (London: Frank Cass, 1974), pp.â•–73–80.
Laqueur, Walter, A History of Zionism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003).
€ €
Leven, Narcisse, Cinquante Ans d’Histoire: L’Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860–1910, Tome Pre-
mier (Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1911).
Labour
Berenstein, Alexandre, Les Organisations Ouvrières: Leurs Compétences et Leur Rôle dans la Société
des Nations (Paris: Pedone, 1936).
Dale, Leon A., ‘International Trade Secretariats’, Industrial Relations, 22/1 (1967), pp.â•–98–115.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Official Report of the Free World Labour Con-
ference and of the First International Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions, London, November–December 1949 (London: International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions, 1949).
Lorwin, Lewis L., Labor and Internationalism (New York: Macmillan, 1929).
MacShane, Denis, International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1992).
Mason, Paul, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class went Global (London: �Harvill
Secker, 2007).
Phelan, Craig (ed.), The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives (Berne: Peter Lang,
2007).
Schevenels, Walther, Quarante-Cinq Années: Fédération Syndicale Internationale, 1901–1945
(Brussels: Institut E. Vandervelde, 1964).
€
Silver, Beverly J., Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003).
257
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Van der Linden, Marcel, Transnational Labour History: Explorations (London: Ashgate, 2003).
Van der Linden, Marcel (ed.), The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Berne: Peter
Lang, 2000).
Van der Linden, Marcel, and Wayne Thorpe (eds.), Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International
Perspective (Aldershot: Scolar, 1990).
Van Goethem, Geert, The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of
Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913–1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Language
Eco, Umberto, The Search for the Perfect Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
Forster, Peter Glover, The Esperanto Movement (The Hague: Mouton, 1982).
Kim, Young S., ‘Constructing a Global Identity: The Role of Esperanto’, in John Boli and George
M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations
€
Esperanto [The Universal Language]: The Student’s Complete Textbook (New York: Fleming
H. Revell), pp.â•–7–20.
€
Law
Bos, Maarten (ed.), The Present State of International Law and Other Essays: Written in Honour
of the Centenary Celebration of the International Law Association 1873–1973 (Deventer: Klu-
wer, 1973).
Dezalay, Yves, Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of
International Legal Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Harper, J. Ross (ed.), Global Law in Practice (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997).
€
Koskenniemi, Martti, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law,
1870–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Liberalism
Samuel, Viscount Herbert, et al., Spires of Liberty: Speeches made at the Oxford Conference in May
1947, as a result of which the Liberal International was inaugurated, and at the First Conference
of the Liberal International at Zurich in 1948 (London: Herbert Joseph, 1948).
Smith, Julie, A Sense of Liberty: The History of the Liberal International, 1947–1997 (London:
Liberal International, 1997).
National self-determination
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini. Vol.â•–III. Autobiographical and Political
€
258
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Nabulsi, Karma, ‘Patriotism and Internationalism in the “Oath of Allegiance” to Young Europe’,
European Journal of Political Theory, 5/1 (2006), pp.â•–61–70.
Pélissier, Jean, and *** (i.e. Jean Gabrys), Les Principaux Artisans de la Renaissance Nationale Litu-
anienne: Hommes et Choses de Lituanie (Lausanne: Bureau d’Informations de Lituanie, 1918).
Penn, Virginia, ‘Philhellenism in Europe, 1821–1828’, The Slavonic and East European Review,
16/48 (1938), pp.â•–638–53.
Sarti, Roland, Mazzini: A Life for the Religion of Politics (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).
Senn, Alfred Erich, ‘Garlawa: A Study in Emigré Intrigue, 1915–1917’ (1967), pp.â•–411–24.
Soutou, Georges-Henri, ‘Jean Pélissier et l’Office Central des Nationalités, 1911–1918: Ren-
seignement et Influence’, Rélations Internationales, 78 (1994), pp.â•–153–74.
Union des Nationalités, Les Annales des Nationalités, 1912–1918
Watson, D. R., ‘Jean Pélissier and the Office Central des Nationalités, 1912–1919’, English His-
€
Non-governmental organizations
Ahmed, Shamima, and David M. Potter, NGOs in International Politics (Bloomfield, CT: Kumar-
€
World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms (Minneapolis, MN: Uni-
versity of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp.â•–24–44.
Skjelsbaek, Kjell, ‘The Growth of International Nongovernmental Organization in the Twen-
€
259
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Speeckaert, Georges Patrick, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales Fondées depuis le Congrès de
Vienne (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1957).
Suri, Jeremi, ‘Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Actors’, in Patrick Finney (ed.),
Palgrave Advances in International History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005),
pp.â•–223–46.
Union of International Associations, Annuaires de la Vie Internationale, 1908–1911 (Brussels:
Office Central des Associations Internationales, 1909–11).
Union of International Associations, Congrès Mondial des Associations Internationales, Bruxelles,
15–18 Juin 1913 (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1914).
Union of International Associations, ‘Yearbook of International Organizations Online’, http://
www.uia.be/yearbook, last accessed 11 December 2011.
Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations: A World Center (Brus-
sels: Union of International Associations, 1914).
White, Lyman Cromwell, International Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes, Meth-
ods and Accomplishments (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968).
White, Lyman Cromwell, The Structure of Private International Organizations (Philadephia, PA:
George S. Ferguson Company, 1933).
€
Pan-nationalism
Azoury, Negib, Le Réveil de la Nation Arabe dans l’Asie Turque (Paris: Plon, 1905).
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Richard Nikolaus, An Idea Conquers the World (London: Hutchin-
son, 1953).
Dawisha, Adeed, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair (Princ-
eton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
Esedebe, Peter Olisanwuche, Pan-Africanism: The Idea and Movement, 1776–1991 (Washing-
ton, DC: Howard University Press, 1994).
Geiss, Imanuel, The Pan-African Movement: A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and
Africa (London: Methuen, 1974).
Kedourie, Sylvia (ed.), Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1962).
Khalidi, Rashid, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih and Reeva S. Simon (eds.), The Origins of
€
260
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Peace
Angell, Norman, Europe’s Optical Illusion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
n.d.).
Beales, A. C. F., The History of Peace: A Short Account of the Organised Movements for Interna-
€ €
Brock, Peter, Pacifism in Europe to 1914 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972).
Brock, Peter, and Nigel Young, Pacifism in the Twentieth Century (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Uni-
versity Press, 1999).
Carter, April, Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics since 1945 (Harlow: Long-
man, 1992).
Ceadel, Martin, The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International
Relations, 1730–1854 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Ceadel, Martin, Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations,
1854–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Ceadel, Martin, Living the Great Illusion: Sir Norman Angell, 1872–1967 (Oxford: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 2009).
Cooper, Sandi. Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815–1914 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991).
Cortright, David, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008).
Davies, Thomas Richard, ‘Internationalism in a Divided World: The Experience of the Inter-
national Federation of League of Nations Societies, 1919–1939’, Peace & Change, 37/2 (2012),
pp.â•–227–52.
Davies, Thomas Richard, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarma-
ment between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007).
Dewes, Kate, and Robert Green, ‘The World Court Project: History and Consequences’, Cana-
dian Foreign Policy Journal, 7/1 (1999), pp.â•–61–83.
Divine, Robert A., Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America during World War
II (New York: Athenaeum, 1967).
Evangelista, Matthew, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Foster, Catherine, Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989).
Hubert, Don, The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy (Providence, RI:
Thomas J. Watson Jr Institute for International Studies, 2000).
€
Kätzel, Ute, ‘A Radical Women’s Rights and Peace Activist: Margarethe Lenore Selenka, Initiator
�
of the First Worldwide Women’s Peace Demonstration in 1899’, Journal of Women’s History,
13/3 (2001), pp.â•–46–69.
Liddington, Jill, The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since
1820 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989).
Lynch, Cecelia, Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Mauermann, Helmut, Das Internationale Friedensbüro, 1892 bis 1950 (Stuttgart: Silberburg,
1990).
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Peace Society, The Proceedings of the First General Peace Convention (London: Peace Society,
1843).
Tate, Merze, The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907
(New York: Macmillan, 1942).
Uhlig, Ralph, Die Interparliamentarische Union, 1889–1914 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
1988).
Van der Linden, W. H., The International Peace Movement, 1815–1874 (Amsterdam: Tilleul,
€
1987).
White, Lyman Cromwell, ‘Peace by Pieces: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations’,
Annals of the American Academy of Political Science, 264 (1949), pp.â•–87–97.
Wittner, Lawrence S., The Struggle against the Bomb, 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1993–2003).
Professions
Evetts, Julia, ‘International Professional Associations: The New Context for Professional Proj-
ects’, Work, Employment & Society, 9/4 (1995), pp.â•–763–72.
International Actuarial Association, Decennial Report: A Profession Poised for the Future (Ottawa:
International Actuarial Association, 2008).
International Actuarial Association, Premier Congrès International d’Actuaires, Bruxelles, 2–6
Septembre 1895. Documents. Deuxième Edition. (Brussels: Imprimerie Bruylant-Christophe
& Compagnie, 1900).
International Federation of Accountants, IFAC: Thirty Years of Progress, Encouraging Quality and
Building Trust (New York: International Federation of Accountants, 2007).
Koops, Willem, and Joachim Wieder (eds.), IFLA’s First Fifty Years: Achievement and Challenge
in International Librarianship (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977).
Vago, Pierre, L’UIA, 1948–1998 (Paris: Epure, 1998).
Race
Cronon, Edmund David, Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (Madison, WN: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).
East India Association, ‘Rules of the East India Association for Promoting Indian Interests’,
Journal of the East India Association, 1/1 (1867), pp.â•–8–10.
Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics II: Report of Proceedings of the First Interna-
tional Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1913).
Executive Council of the Universal Races Congress, Record of the Proceedings of the First Uni-
versal Races Congress (London: P. S. King, 1911).
€ €
Marger, Martin N., Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives, 9th edn (Bel-
mont, CA: Wadsworth, 2012).
Rich, Paul, ‘“The Baptism of a New Era”: The 1911 Universal Races Congress and the Liberal
Ideology of Race’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 7/4 (1984), pp.â•–534–50.
Religion
Boli, John, and David V. Brewington, ‘Religious Organizations’, in Peter Beyer and Lori Bea-
€
man (eds.), Globalization, Religion and Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp.â•–205–33.
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Braybrooke, Marcus, A Wider Vision: A History of the World Congress of Faiths, 1936–1996 (Oxford:
Oneworld, 1996).
Currier, Charles Warren, History of Religious Orders (New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1894).
James, Helen (ed.), Civil Society, Religion, and Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007)
Masuzawa, Tomoko, The Invention of World Religions: How European Universalism was Preserved
in the Language of Pluralism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Millard, A. Douglas (ed.), Faiths and Fellowship: Being the Proceedings of the World Congress of
€
Seager, Richard Hughes (ed.), The Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World’s Parlia-
ment of Religions, 1893 (Peru, IL: Open Court, 1993).
Smith, Peter, An Introduction to the Baha’i Faith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
See also the entries on Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
Revolution
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (New
York: Palgrave, 2000).
Billington, James H., Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (New Bruns-
wick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999).
Geggus, David P. (ed.), The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Columbia,
€
Science
Charle, Christophe, Jürgen Schriewer and Peter Wagner (eds.), Transnational Intellectual Net-
works: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities (Frankfurt: Cam-
pus, 2004).
Crawford, Elisabeth, Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 1880–1939: Four Studies of the
Nobel Population (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez and Evan Schofer (eds.), Science in the
€ €
Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univer-
sity Press, 2003).
Erdmann, Karl Dietrich, Toward a Global Community of Historians: The International Historical
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Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898–2000 (New York:
Berghahn: 2005).
Fernos, Rodrigo, Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses,
1898–1916 (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2003).
Greenaway, Frank, Science International: A History of the International Council of Scientific Unions
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
International Statistical Institute, ‘Statuts de l’Institut International de Statistique’, in Bulletin
de l’Institut International de Statistique. Tome I (Rome: Imprimerie Héritiers Botta, 1886),
p.â•–17.
Kejariwal, O. P., The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India’s Past, 1784–1838 (Delhi:
€
Service clubs
Kittler, Glenn D., The Dynamic World of Lions International: The Fifty-Year Saga of Lions Clubs
(New York: M. Evans, 1968).
€
Nicholl, David Shelley, The Golden Wheel: The Story of Rotary, 1905 to the Present (Estover, Plym-
outh: McDonald & Evans, 1984).
The Rotarian, September 1912.
Social movements
Della Porta, Donatella, and Sidney Tarrow (eds.), Transnational Protest and Global Activism:
People, Passions, and Power (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Della Porta, Donatella, Hanspeter Kriesi and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Movements in a Glo-
balizing World (London: Macmillan, 1999).
Khagram, Sanjeev, James V. Riker and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), Restructuring World Politics:
€
Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms (Minneapolis, MN: University of Min-
nesota Press, 2002).
Markoff, John, Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Pine Forge Press, 1996).
Martin, William G. (coordinator), Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750–2005
€
264
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Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements and
Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
Smith, Jackie, and Dawn Wiest, Social Movements in the World System: The Politics of Crisis and
Transformation (New York: Russell Sage, 2012).
Tarrow, Sidney, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Tarrow, Sidney, The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005).
Tilly, Charles, Social Movements, 1768–2004 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).
Socialism
Braunthal, Julius, History of the International (London: Nelson, 1966–1980).
Day, Alan John, The Socialist International: A Short History (London: Socialist International,
1969).
Devin, Guillaume, L’Internationale Socialiste: Histoire et Sociologie du Socialisme International,
1945–1990 (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1993).
Drachkovitch, Milorad M. (ed.), The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864–1943 (Stanford, CA:
€
Stekloff, G. M., History of the First International (London: Martin Lawrence, 1928).
€
Sport
Coubertin, Pierre de, Timoleon J. Philemon, N. G. Politis and Charalambos Anninos, The Olym-
€ € €
265
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Guttman, Allen, The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games (Champaign, IL: University of
Illinois Press, 2002).
Hill, Christopher R., Olympic Politics: Athens to Atlanta, 1896–1996 (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1996).
International Olympic Committee, ‘Le Congrès de Paris’, Bulletin du Comité International des
Jeux Olympiques, 1/1 (1894), pp.â•–1–2.
Large, David Clay, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
€ €
2007).
Riordan, James, and Arnd Krüger (eds.), The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Cen-
tury (London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1999).
€ € €
Sugden, John, and Alan Tomlinson, FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peo-
ple’s Game? (Cambridge: Polity, 1998).
Young, David C., The Modern Olympics: A Struggle for Revival (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996).
Standardization
Brunsson, Nils, and Bengt Jacobsson, A World of Standards (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2000).
International Electrotechnical Commission, Report of Preliminary Meeting held at the Hotel Cecil,
London, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 26th and 27th 1906 (London: International Elec-
trotechnical Commission, 1906).
Loya, Thomas A., and John Boli, ‘Standardization in the World Polity: Technical Rationality
over Power’, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: Inter-
€
national Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1999), pp.â•–169–97.
Murphy, Craig N., and JoAnne Yates, The International Organization for Standardization (ISO):
Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
Tamm Hallström, Kristina, Organizing International Standardization: ISO and the IASC in Quest
of Authority (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 2004).
Yates, James, Narrative of the Origin and Formation of the International Association for Obtaining
a Uniform Decimal System of Measures, Weights and Coins (London: Bell and Daldy, 1856).
Transnational history
Benjamin, Thomas, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Clark, Ian, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Clark, Ian, International Legitimacy and World Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Conrad, Sebastian, and Dominic Sachsenmaier (eds.), Competing Visions of World Order: Global
Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Faries, John Culbert, The Rise of Internationalism (New York: W. D. Gray, 1915).
€ €
Geyer, Martin H., and Johannes Paulmann (eds.), The Mechanics of Inter�nationalism: Culture, Soci-
ety, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transforma-
tions: Politics, Economics, Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999).
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Horn, Gerd-Rainer, and Padraic Kelly (eds.), Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945,
1968, 1989 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).
Howard, Michael, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Hurst & Co., 2008).
Iriye, Akira, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Con-
temporary World (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002).
Iriye, Akira, and Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Laqua, Daniel (ed.), Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements between
the World Wars (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011).
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Owen IV, John M., The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States and Regime
Change, 1510–2010 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Reinalda, Bob, Routledge History of International Organizations: From 1815 to the Present Day
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
Revue Encyclopédique, vols. 1–36, 1819–27.
Risse-Kappen, Thomas (ed.), Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domes-
tic Structures and International Institutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Tyrrell, Ian, Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princ-
eton University Press, 2010).
Vertovec, Steven, Transnationalism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
Youth
Altbach, Philip, and Norman Thomas Uphoff, The Student Internationals (Metuchen, NJ: Scare-
crow Press, 1973).
Koteck, Joël, Students and the Cold War (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).
Luza, Radomir, History of the International Socialist Youth Movement (Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff,
€ €
1970).
Moynihan, Paul, An Official History of Scouting (London: Hamlyn, 2006).
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Hague Opium Convention (1912): human rights: 5, 90, 96, 131, 137,
68; ratification of, 82 141–3, 153, 158, 162, 171
Haiti: 108; Revolution (1791–1804), Human Rights Education: 171
25 Human Rights Information and
Handbooks of International Organiza- Documentation Systems Interna-
tions: 15 tional (HURIDOCS): creation of
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (1982), 148
Initiative: 159 Human Rights Watch (Helsinki
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: Watch): 153
partner in HICEM, 95 humanitarianism: 5, 32, 37, 86, 94,
HelpAge International: creation of 127, 140, 147, 168; transnational,
(1983), 148 5
Helsinki Final Act (1975): 153 Hungary: 101, 158; Budapest, 53
Herzl, Theodor: role in organising
First Zionist Congress, 56 Iceland: 95
HICEM: establishment of (1927), imperialism: 43, 45, 179; opposition
95 to, 56, 89
Hinduism: 57 Independent Order of Good
Hitler, Adolf: 73; rise to power Templars: 21
(1933), 113, 122; withdrawal of India: 59, 63, 95, 99, 108, 136, 165;
Germany from League of Amritsar Massacre (1919), 89;
Nations, 109 Bangalore, 125; Bihar, 140; Delhi,
HIV/AIDS: 157 89, 99; Dhaka, 67; Kolkata
Hizb ut-Tahrir: 137 (Calcutta), 27, 37, 67; military of,
Hobson, John: 5 125; Mumbai, 119, 149; New
Höglund, Zeth: 79 Delhi, 119, 158; Partition (1947),
Honduras: 63 125; Pune, 79
Hoover, Herbert: establishment of Indian Association for the Cultiva-
CRB (1914), 79 tion of Science: formation of
Hoover Institution on War, (1876), 55
Revolution and Peace: formerly Indian Council of World Affairs:
Hoover War Collection, 87 conference (1947), 136
Hopkins, Ellice: role in creation of Indian Institute of World Culture:
White Cross Army (1883), 60 creation of (1945), 125
Howard, Michael: 73, 76 Indian Ocean Earthquake and
Howe, Julia Ward: call for Woman’s Tsunami (2004): increase in
Peace Congress (1870), 60 INGO contribution following,
Hugo, Victor: role in formation of 169
International Literary and Artistic Indian Society of Oriental Art:
Association, 46 creation of (1907), 67
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turbocapitalism: development of, 11 142, 147, 150; colonies of, 33, 41;
Turkey: 25, 32, 63, 100, 108; government of, 126; Leeds, 83;
government of, 71 London, 4, 14, 22, 26–9, 31, 34–5,
Tyrell, Ian: 88–9 41–2, 50–2, 55–6, 59–60, 69, 80,
88, 104, 107, 116, 125; Norwich,
UK National Archives: 13 26; Oxford, 14; Parliament, 30,
Ukraine: pogroms in, 97 39; Treasury, 129
UN Economic and Social Council United Nations (UN): 3, 14, 17, 93,
(ECOSOC): 14, 131, 135, 143; 105, 137, 149–50, 160, 166, 175,
Charter of, 3 178, 180; Charter of, 123, 130–2,
UN Economic Commission for 137; Children’s Emergency Fund
Africa: formation of, 136 (UNICEF), 150; Convention on
UN Human Rights Commission: the Prevention and Punishment
143 of the Crime of Genocide (1948),
Unión Femenina Ibero-Americana: 137; Declaration on the Elimina-
establishment of (1936), 119 tion of Discrimination against
Union Internationale des Villes: Women (1967), 146; Employment
formation of, 66 (Discrimination) Convention
Union of Arab Pharmacists: (1958), 138; Environment
establishment of (1945), 126 Programme, 145; Equal Remu-
Union of International Associations neration Convention (1951), 138;
(UIA): 4, 14–15, 19, 74, 76, 138, General Assembly, 146; Offices,
155, 177; aims of, 71; Annuaire de 14; San Francisco Conference
la Vie Internationale: 15, 70, 75, (1945), 130–2; Security Council,
160; Yearbook of International 168; Universal Declaration of
Organizations, 6, 15, 70; origins Human Rights (UDHR) (1948),
of, 71; personnel of, 75 137–8
Union of Nationalities (UON): United States of America (USA):
Annales des Nationalitiés: 74–5; 27, 29–30, 34, 36, 38, 41, 49, 53,
collapse of, 75; formerly Central 58–60, 62, 78, 108–9, 112, 127,
Office of Nationalities, 74; Third 146, 150, 161, 165–6, 172; 9/11
International Congress of Attacks, 164; Atlantic City, 84;
Nationalities (1916), 75 Chicago, 128; Civil War (1861–
Union of Utrecht: formation of 5), 39, 143; Congress, 129;
(1889), 57 Constitution of, 88–9; govern-
Union of War Veterans: 100 ment of, 55, 71, 143, 158, 167;
Unitarians: 28 Hawaii, 108; Honolulu, 103;
United Europe Movement: forma- military of, 127; New York, 28, 57,
tion of (1947), 136 87, 95, 128, 131; Philadelphia,
United Kingdom (UK): 29–30, 25–6; prohibition in, 88–90;
33–4, 41, 59–60, 66, 71, 109, 120, Revolution, 25, 175; State
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White Cross Army: branches of, 60; the Churches: founding of (1914),
creation of (1883), 60 80
Wilkinson, Ellen: 115 World Alliance of Reformed
Willetts, Peter: 133 Churches: formation of (1875), 57
Williams, Douglas: 93, 131 World Alliance of Young Men’s
Williams, Henry Sylvester: founder Christian Associations
of African Association, 55 (WYCMA): 14, 16, 37–8, 180;
Williams, Jody: organizer of formation of (1855), 35–6, 43
International Campaign to Ban World Assembly of Youth: 134
Landmines, 155, 160 World Association of Lebanese
Wilson, Woodrow: 75, 81 Neurosurgeons: 161
Wittner, Lawrence: 143–4 World Bank: 17, 155, 164; forma-
women: 83–4; enfranchisement of, tion of (1944), 129; funding
7, 45, 58, 60, 63, 90, 97, 177; provided by, 156
female genital mutilation (FGM), World Bank-Civil Society Forum:
98; footbinding, 59; sex traffick- 167–8
ing, 59–60 World Committee Against War and
Women Living Under Muslim Fascism: 117; origins of, 115
Laws: formation of (1984), 146–7 World Committee for the Relief of
Women’s Indian Association of the Victims of German Fascism:
Madras: personnel of, 107 Brown Book of the Hitler Terror,
Women’s International Democratic The, 115–16
Federation (WIDF): 134–5 World Confederation of Labour:
Women’s International League for role in formation of ITUC, 170
Peace and Freedom (WILPF): 84, World Congress of Doctors (1954):
98, 104–5 creation of International Medical
Women’s Publicity Planning Association, 135
Association: 124 World Congress of Faiths: creation
Women’s World Committee against of (1936), 120
War and Fascism: 115 World Congress of International
Woolf, Leonard: 81 Associations (1913): 74; attendees
Workers’ International Centre of of, 71
Latin American Solidarity: World Council of Churches: 140;
creation of (1913), 67 establishment of (1948), 120, 139
Workers International Relief: 100 World Dental Federation: establish-
World Alliance for Citizen Partici- ment of (1900), 50
pation (CIVICUS): emergence of, World Disarmament Conference
155 (1932–4): 16, 107–9, 121, 132;
World Alliance for Promoting collapse of, 116, 120; Disarma-
International Friendship Through ment Committees, 108–9
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