The League of Nations’ Collaboration with an ‘International Public’, 1919–1939
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The League of Nations’ Collaboration with an ‘International Public’, 1919–1939. / Seidenfaden, Emil Eiby.
I: Contemporary European History, Bind 31, Nr. 3, 2022, s. 368-380.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The League of Nations’ Collaboration with an ‘International Public’, 1919–1939
AU - Seidenfaden, Emil Eiby
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article analyses the distinctive characteristics of how the League of Nations sought to publicly legitimise itself from 1919 to 1939. Discussing the work of the Information Section of the League Secretariat, it traces the organisational development of this section throughout the interwar years and argues that a preference of ‘collaboration’ through liaison with influential members of the public in the League's member states permeated this section's work, and that this strategy was, in the eyes of League officials, necessitated by the tight political constraints the Secretariat was subjected to rather than the result of an inherent ‘elitism’ of the officials.
AB - This article analyses the distinctive characteristics of how the League of Nations sought to publicly legitimise itself from 1919 to 1939. Discussing the work of the Information Section of the League Secretariat, it traces the organisational development of this section throughout the interwar years and argues that a preference of ‘collaboration’ through liaison with influential members of the public in the League's member states permeated this section's work, and that this strategy was, in the eyes of League officials, necessitated by the tight political constraints the Secretariat was subjected to rather than the result of an inherent ‘elitism’ of the officials.
U2 - 10.1017/S0960777321000473
DO - 10.1017/S0960777321000473
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 368
EP - 380
JO - Contemporary European History
JF - Contemporary European History
SN - 0960-7773
IS - 3
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