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The UN and global political economy : trade, finance, and development
Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by
economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the
authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual
contributions to the trade and development debate. Presenting a stirring account of
the main UN actors in this debate, The UN and Global Political Economy focuses on
the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN
agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations
Commission on Trade and Development, and the Economic Commission for Latin America
(and the Caribbean). It also looks closely at the effects of the Latin American debt
crisis of the 1980s, the growing strength of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in
the 1990s, and the lessons to be drawn from these and other recent
developments.
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Winston Churchill : politics, strategy and statecraft
\"A collection of short, accessible chapters on the key aspects of Winston Churchill's military and political career and his impact on 20th-century history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rhetorics of empire : languages of colonial conflict after 1900
Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why did imperialist language remain so pervasive in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout much of the twentieth century? What rhetorical devices did political leaders, administrators, investors and lobbyists use to justify colonial domination before domestic and foreign audiences? How far did their colonial opponents mobilize a different rhetoric of rights and freedoms to challenge them? These questions are at the heart of this collection. Essays range from Theodore Roosevelt's articulation of American imperialism in the early 1900s to the rhetorical battles surrounding European decolonization in the late twentieth century.
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One World, Two Cultures? Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Ideological Origins of UNESCO
Against the background of revival of interest in the 'two cultures' controversy of the 1960s, this article examines an earlier episode in the struggle between literary intellectuals and scientists for cultural leadership – the choice of a British candidate for the leadership of UNESCO. Why was Sir Alfred Zimmern, the obvious choice for the post of founding Director-General, not selected? This article argues that Zimmern was ousted as frontrunner because he had failed to gather the support of the burgeoning British scientific establishment, which had mounted its own successful agitation to have science included explicitly in the new organization's remit. It examines the actions and motivations of Ellen Wilkinson and John Maud, whose joint decision it was to replace the classicist Zimmern with the biologist Julian Huxley. It concludes that the main factor behind the replacement of Zimmern was his failure to bridge the two cultures of arts and science. Nevertheless, these events should not be viewed merely as a prologue to the two cultures debate as Huxley and Zimmern's attitudes to science and culture cannot easily be separated from their respective approaches to broader international political questions.
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The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931–1951
In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan `Plan or Perish'. The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald. Although heavily defeated in that election, Labour stuck to its commitment. The Attlee government came to power in 1945 determined to plan comprehensively. Yet, the aspiration to create a fully planned economy was not met. This book explores the origins and evolution of the promise, in order to explain why it was not fulfilled. RICHARD TOYE lectures in history at Homerton College, Cambridge.
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