No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations – By Mark Mazower

Toye, Richard

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“… 10 Mark Mazower points out that such ideas ‘for a formal Anglo-American Union to guarantee democratic solidarity’ were ‘mooted briefly in the critical early months of the war’ by many others as well (2009: 59).…”

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The (classical) Realist vision of global reform

Scheuerman

2010

Int. Theory

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Most Realists today oppose far-reaching global reform on the grounds that it represents unrealistic and potentially irresponsible ‘utopianism’. An earlier generation of mid-century Realists, however, not only supported serious efforts at radical international reform but also developed a theoretically impressive model for how to bring it about. They considered the possibility of post-national political orders and ultimately a world state as desirable long-term goals, but only if reformers could simultaneously generate the thick societal background (or what they called ‘supranational society’) required by any viable order ‘beyond the nation state’. As they fail to engage constructively with proposals for global reform, present-day Realists betray their own intellectual tradition. By reconsidering the subterranean legacy of Realist reformism as advanced by mid-century international thinkers (e.g. E.H. Carr, John Herz, Hans Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Frederick Schuman), the essay provides a revisionist reading of the history of twentieth-century international theory, while also highlighting its significance for ongoing debates about global reform.

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The (classical) Realist vision of global reform

Scheuerman

2010

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“…This altered the nature of the forum of the United Nations, meaning that at its inception these traits were not evident. 61 India's first challenge to the world order came with a suit regarding discrimination against Asiatics in South Africa, ostensibly on the basis of "universal" principles against racial inequality. In response to the South African representative, Nichols, at the UN, Vijayalakshmi Pandit confirmed that it was not merely South Africa but western civilization that was on trial at the UN.…”

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Removing the International from the Refugee: India in the 1940s

Kapoor¹

2021

Humanity

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Such a union can have nothing to do with imperialism or fascism and must be based on the fullest democracy and freedom, each nation having autonomy within its borders, and submitting in international matters to the union legislature to which it sends its representatives.1 -Jawaharlal Nehru, June 1939 At the end of March 1942, congress party leader Jawaharlal Nehru would dine with Sir Stafford Cripps, head of the British delegation designated to find a version of selfdetermination for Indian people that would also rally Indian nationalists to the cause of the Second World War. Cripps' report of the meeting highlights a concern that is not usually thought of with regard to India's road to independence or even the international dimensions of the famed Quit India movement. The conversation had left him with the impression that the negative attitude towards the war was, in a large part, because of 'the treatment of Indian refugees coming from the eastern seaboard to the central districts in comparison to the treatment of refugees.' 1 Nehru had spent some of that year in Assam, witnessing first-hand a difference in refugee experience that he saw as the inequality inherent in Empire. 2 In August of that same year, the Quit India resolution, largely authored by Nehru, would outline how India's freedom was a precondition both to voluntary participation in the war as well as the first step to overcoming racial hierarchy an equal World Federation that could maintain peace. The refugee, it would seem, had served as an embodiment of the predicament of India's national position in a changing world order.Indian visions of the International Order were closely tied to nationalism and extended beyond the Congress' realisation of the disadvantages of functioning as a junior partner in the British internationalist machine. A new internationalism had to be created for

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“…The pursuit of ethnic homogeneity by organized resettlement replaced the minority protection system, increasingly regarded as a failure. 2 Population transfer was supposed to secure lasting peace between nationstates. The western allies enthusiastically embraced this instrument of international politics.…”

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Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947

Halavach

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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The article examines the Soviet nationality policy in Belarus in 1944–1947 during the population exchange between the Soviet Union and Poland. Unlike in Lithuania and Ukraine, the authorities in Belarus prioritized keeping the labor force over national homogenization, determined nationality by territory of birth, and attempted to keep the people by designating them as Belarusians irrespective of their self-identification. The article argues that in Belarus, the population transfer was a combination of an exodus of refugees with the expulsion of Poles by the state. Although the declarations about the voluntary character of the resettlement were false, the direction of the compulsion varied, and this ambivalence opened up a space of limited autonomy in which the people could exercise agency. The Soviet ethnic cleansing remained incomplete in Soviet Belarus because of the competing urge to keep the labor force. Paradoxically, much of the demographic de-Polonization of new western territories of Soviet Belarus was achieved without the state’s commitment to ethnic cleansing and without the involvement of Belarusian nationalism.

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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations – By Mark Mazower

Cited by 14 publications

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The (classical) Realist vision of global reform

The (classical) Realist vision of global reform

Removing the International from the Refugee: India in the 1940s

Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947

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