Special Issue
Liberal and Illiberal Internationalisms
Edited by Philippa Hetherington and Glenda Sluga
The twenty-first century is awash with diagnoses of the end of liberal internationalism. In both popular and academic manifestations, declarations of liberal internationalism’s ‘crisis’ tend to assume that the term has a stable meaning that is clearly differentiated from illiberal internationalist variants. The aim of this special issue of the Journal of World History is to interrogate this assumption. We argue that a historical view of internationalism highlights the interrelation between and the mutual dependence of liberal and illiberal internationalisms since 1880. Taken together, the essays collected here position the politics of internationalism at the centre of a new historiography that rejects an axiomatic relationship between the liberal and the international. They seek to rethink how liberal and illiberal cooperated, co-mingled and co-produced one another on the international plane.
Research Articles
Liberal and Illiberal Internationalisms
Philippa Hetherington, Glenda Sluga
Liberals, Socialists, Internationalists, Jews
Abigail Green
“Neither East Nor West,” Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal? Iranian Islamist Internationalism in the 1980s
Timothy Nunan
Urban Planning and the Politics of Expert Internationalism, 1920s–1940s
Phillip Wagner
The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: The Legacies of the League of Nations Reconsidered
David Petruccelli
Constructing the ‘City of International Solidarity’: Non-Aligned Internationalism, the United Nations and Visions of Development, Modernism and Solidarity, 1955–1975
Ljubica Spaskovska
Liberal and Illiberal Internationalism in the Making of the League of Nations Convention on Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace
David Goodman
India, Apartheid and the New World Order at the UN, 1946–1962
Alanna O’Malley
Book Reviews
The Little Ice Age and the Demise of Rome: Lessons for the Anthropocene?
Roger L. Albin
Europe and the European Union in Times of Growing Scepticism
Martijn Lak
Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876–1903 by Aidan Forth (review)
Mark Condos
Trading in Faith: Christianity and Globalization?
Philip Jenkins
Vol. 31, Issue 1
Pictured on the cover: Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, photograph taken in June 2019. The photograph marks a transition for the Journal of World History, highlighting Utah as the new home of the journal office as well as the site of World History Association annual conference in 2020. The image is a precursor of a complete cover redesign in 2021.