Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Pasi Ihalainen, Antero Holmila

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781836950639
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781836952015
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

It is commonplace that the modern world is more international than at any point in human history. Yet the sheer profusion of terms for describing politics beyond the nation state—including "international," "European," "global," "transnational" and "cosmopolitan," among others – is but one indication of how conceptually complex this field actually is. Taking a wide view of internationalism(s) in Europe since the eighteenth century, Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined explores discourses and practices to challenge nation-centered histories and trace the entanglements that arise from international cooperation. A multidisciplinary group of scholars in history, discourse studies and digital humanities asks how internationalism has been experienced, understood, constructed, debated and redefined across different European political cultures as well as related to the wider world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction. Debating Internationalisms: Contexts, Concepts and Historiography
• Chapter 1. Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism in the Intellectual Culture of the Enlightenment
• Chapter 2. Revolution beyond Borders: Conceptualizing the Universal and Cosmopolitan in the French Revolution, 1789–1815
• Chapter 3. International: From Legal to Civic Discourse and beyond in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 4. Internationalism in Socialist Conceptualizations of Politics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• Chapter 5. Progress, Nation and Great Women in Constructing the Idea of Feminist Internationalism
• Chapter 6. Non-Socialist Internationalisms before and after the First World War
• Chapter 7. Securing Peace by Trade? The ‘World Economy’ and International Organization
• Chapter 8. Ecumene Redefined: Concepts of (Inter)National Religious Unity in British, Dutch and Swedish Parliamentary Debates, 1880–2020
• Chapter 9. ‘Olympism Is Real Internationalism’: Conceptualizations of Internationalism(s) in the Olympic Movement from the 1890s to the 1990s
• Chapter 10. European Unity and the Nation State
• Chapter 11. Universalism in Emergency Aid before and after 1970: Ambivalences and Contradictions
• Chapter 12. Defining ‘the Third Way’: Oppositional Internationalisms of Finnish, Swedish and West German Student and New Left Movements in the 1960s
• Chapter 13. ‘The Vision of an Undivided, Habitable World’: International Climate Policies in German, British and European Parliamentary Debates on Conceptions of Justice, 1992–2019
• Chapter 14. Dynamics of the International and National in Finnish and Hungarian Higher Education, 1990–2020
• Conclusion. Long-Term Patterns in the Vocabulary of Internationalisms
• Afterword
• Index