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Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 19201946,Used
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Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever intergovernmental organization sought to understand and shape the powerful forces that influenced the global economy, and the prospects for peace. It traces how the League was drawn into economics and finance by the exigencies of the slump and hyperinflation after the First World War, when it provided essential financial support to Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Estonia and, thereby, established the founding principles of financial intervention, international oversight, and the twentiethcentury notion of international 'development.'But it is the impact of the Great Depression after 1929 that lies at the heart of this history. Patricia Clavin traces how the League of Nations sought to combat economic nationalism and promote economic and monetary cooperation in a variety of, sometimes contradictory, ways. Many of the economists, bureaucrats, and policyadvisors who worked for it played a seminal role in the history of international relations and social science, and their efforts did not end with the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 the League established an economic mission in the United States, where it contributed to the creation of organizations for the postwar world the United Nations Organization, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as well as to plans for European reconstruction and cooperation. It is a history that resonates deeply with challenges that face the twentyfirst century world.
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