The history of internationalism and international institutions such as the League of Nations and the United Nations is a rapidly evolving field, as a new generation of historians advances through the breaches in older historiographies lately fashioned by Susan Pedersen, Mark Mazower, Patricia Clavin, Erez Manela and other proponents of the 'new

Simon Jackson is Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Birmingham, where he directs the Centre for Modern & Contemporary History. He is completing a book on the political economy of French empire in Syria and Lebanon after World War One, and researching another, on the origins of the global food production system in late colonial rule. His work has appeared in Humanity, Monde(s) and the Arab Studies Journal.

Alanna O'Malley is Assistant Professor of History & International Relations at Leiden University. She is the author of The Diplomacy of Decolonisation, America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64, which was published by Manchester University Press in 2018. She has been a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of History at George Washington University. She is currently working on a new project, which examines the impact of the Global South on the United Nations 1955-1981.

Foreword: From the League of Nations to the United Nations, Susan Pedersen Introduction: Rocking on its Hinges? The League of Nations, the United Nations and the New History of Internationalism in the Twentieth Century, Simon Jackson and Alanna O'Malley 1: 'He Tampers with the Source of Life itself who Tampers with Freedom': Personhood, the State, and the International Community in the Thought of Charles Malik, Andrew Arsan 2: From the Tigris to the Amazon: Peripheral Expertise, Impossible Cooperation and Economic Multilateralism at the League of Nations, 1920-1946, José Antonio Sánchez Román 3: Pan-American Exceptionalism: Regional International Law as a Challenge to International Institutions, Mats Ingulstad and Lucas Lixinski 4: Jewish Memory and the Human Right to Petition, 1933-1953, Nathan A. Kurz 5: The 1971 East Pakistan Crisis and the Origins of the UN's Engagement with Humanitarian Aid, Florian Hannig 6: "Women's point of view was apt to be forgotten": The Liaison Committee of International Women's Organizations' Campaign for an International Women's Convention, 1920-1953, Nova Robinson 7: The League of Nations and the Transformation of Representation: Sectarianism, Consociationalism, and the Middle East, Sarah Shields 8: Reimagining the Postwar International Order: The World Federalism of Ozaki Yukio and Kagawa Toyohiko, Konrad M. Lawson 9: Internationalism and Empire: The Question of Native Labour in the Portuguese Empire (1929­-1962), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro Epilogue, Ryan Irwin