Introduction; 1. Organizing globalization; 2. The world economy at war; 3. Planning the peace; 4. From bilateral to multilateral trade treaties; 5. Studying the world economy, from Kiel and from Geneva; 6. European unity and security; 7. The International Chamber of Commerce and the politics of business; Conclusion.
Traces the formation and development of multilateral trade structures in the aftermath of the First World War.
Madeleine Lynch Dungy is a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
'An important and refreshing history of international trade - too
long the Cinderella-subject of new histories of capitalism. This
timely account reveals how conflict was more important than
cooperation as Europeans learned they needed institutions and legal
norms to keep markets open, generating a framework for world trade
for decades to come.' Patricia Clavin, Oxford University
'With undisputed relevance to the current global situation, the
author offers new insights into the role of the League of Nations
and its significance for the development of multi-layered trade
governance. The book convincingly analyzes the longstanding
patterns of multilateral decision making and their use in
controversial ideological contexts. It also shows how a new
multilateral order is both urgent and difficult to implement -
presenting crucial lessons to learn from a troubled past.'
Madeleine Herren-Oesch, University of Basel
'In this outstanding book, Madeleine Dungy provides a penetrating,
very wide-ranging and strikingly original reassessment of the
global politics of international trade after the Great War. Drawing
on a formidable array of public and private archival sources from
across Europe and from both sides of the Atlantic, the book
recovers the influence of internationalists projects for the
construction of a new multilateral commercial order. The League of
Nations provided the necessary political and administrative context
for negotiations aimed at creating a new institutional architecture
for international trade. Yet Dungy's analysis is also alive to the
complex interrelationship between commercial negotiations and the
quest for European security and to the fundamental role of
competing interests and contending conceptions of regional, global
and imperial economic order. A superb study that adds much to our
understanding of the international and economic history of the
interwar period.' Peter Jackson, University of Glasgow
'In this deeply researched and highly original work, Madeleine
Dungy has transformed our understanding of the international
politics of trade in the twentieth century and the rise of global
economic governance. This masterful book is essential reading for
those interested in the history of the modern world economy and the
crisis of globalization caused by the First World War.' Jamie
Martin, Harvard University
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