A world more equal : an internationalist perspective on the Cold War /
"Diving into the archives of international organizations-the UN and its agencies, in particular, but also nongovernmental organizations and large private foundations-Sandrine Kott reveals an alternate story of the Cold War. These organizations, where actors from conflicting worlds meet and oppo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Summary: | "Diving into the archives of international organizations-the UN and its agencies, in particular, but also nongovernmental organizations and large private foundations-Sandrine Kott reveals an alternate story of the Cold War. These organizations, where actors from conflicting worlds meet and oppose each other, turn out to be places for the joint development of knowledge. They make possible and encourage international cooperation structured around causes that unite and divide at the same time: human and women's rights, peace, ecology. They promote the idea that it is possible to organize the world by regulating its imbalances and contradictions. Last but not least, they give voice to a multitude of players neglected in the great stories, in particular those of the "third world" whose demands for justice strongly marked the international agenda of this period. The cold war, where international organizations proliferated, was followed by the era of globalism, marked by capitalism and competition. This endangers the spaces of international debate as well as the projects of regulation and organization of the world which, Kott argues, human societies and their natural environments need more than ever"-- |
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| Item Description: | Orginally published as: Organiser le monde: Une autre histoire de la guerre froide © Éditions du Seuil, 2021. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 294 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-279) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231210140 0231210140 9780231210157 0231210159 |