ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat
INNER_LEAGUE provides the first, comprehensive social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat. The project will investigate the inner life of the secretariat to a) understand how it shaped the professional lives of the ca. 4000 people that worked there. And b) how this global workplace shaped the lasting bureaucratic infrastructures of multilateralism it serviced. The project posits that it was the personal, social, and professional relationships in this bureaucracy that created what later has been reinterpreted as an anonymous machinery in the background of grand politics. Today international public administrations are so pervasive that the innovation of its emergence is…
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