CHOICE Recommended

'This terrific book brings to bear on international history numerous insights from global history regarding sub-state actors, supranational organizations, and transnational connections. If League of Nations agencies feature prominently, so do the ideas that informed them – of self-determination, of sovereignty, of supranational oversight, and of societal difference. Other chapters consider cognate shifts in international order, their unifying concern being with issues of prohibition and prevention. The result is a cohesive edited collection, whose preoccupation with ‘instruments of international order’ helps us rethink how twentieth-century international relations was conceived and practiced.'
Martin Thomas, author of The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization

'Bringing together fresh voices from multiple disciplines, Instruments of International Order admirably integrates international history and international relations. Richly researched, theoretically informed, and thoughtfully ambitious, each of the volume’s contributions offers a lively perspective on the early twentieth century, as practitioners developed and implemented new instruments in the hope of building a better world.'
Professor Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

' The book aims to link the traditional study of diplomatic history and power politics to the new history of internationalism, showing how the concept of instruments influenced the current international order. The authors believe that devising new diplomatic tools could help scholars better understand international affairs. The book shows that diplomacy was a useful tool in constructing world order, pushing for change in many different directions and in the service of many different political ideals, often beyond the control of the sovereign states. Additionally, the authors reveal how instruments were formed by drawing on a growing body of international law and academic scholarship. Understanding these instruments can shed light on the constituent elements of international affairs and how they continue to shape the political world.'
K. M. Zaarour, North Carolina State University

Thomas W. Bottelier is Marie Curie Fellow at Sciences Po Paris
Jan Stöckmann is Research Fellow and Head of Karl Kaiser Forum at the German Council on Foreign Relations

Preface

Introduction
1 Becoming National: self-determination as a tool in international politics
Georgios Giannakopoulos
2 The League of Nations and the new uses of sovereignty
Lukas Schemper
3 Ascertaining the Truth in Albania: Inquiry as a League of Nations Instrument of International Order
Quincy R. Cloet
4 The chemical weapons discourse as an instrument of international order: the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Anneleen van der Meer
5 “Weapons Misused by Barbarous Races”: Disarmament, Imperialism, and Race in the Interwar Period
Daniel Stahl
6 Colonial Policy and International Control: The American Philippines and Multilateral Drug Treaties, 1909-1931
Eva Ward
7 In the Eyes of the World: Media Oversight and Diplomatic Practices at the League of Nations Assembly
Robert Laker
8 The League of Nations and the Advisory Opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice as “Preventive Adjudication”?
Gabriela A. Frei
9 With or without the Métropole: deferred sovereignty as instrument of racial governance
Pablo de Orellana