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Past Event
Seminar

The League of Nations in...New Jersey? How International Networks Reshaped U.S. Views for a Postwar World

Open to the Public

During the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s, many Americans came to believe their place in world affairs had fundamentally and permanently been altered.  What is often forgotten is how the labors of the League of Nations, along with a network of committed internationalists, laid foundations for these views.  Such was the importance of seemingly prosaic technical work done by the League on health, communication, and, most of all, economics that, at the start of World War II, vital parts of the institution were evacuated to the United States to work in exile in Princeton, New Jersey.  This seminar explores this network and its considerable impact on the perceptions and policies that shaped a postwar order.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Buildings used by the League of Nations in Princeton, N.J., from 1940–1946.

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During the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s, many Americans came to believe their place in world affairs had fundamentally and permanently been altered.  What is often forgotten is how the labors of the League of Nations, along with a network of committed internationalists, laid foundations for these views.  Such was the importance of seemingly prosaic technical work done by the League on health, communication, and, most of all, economics that, at the start of World War II, vital parts of the institution were evacuated to the United States to work in exile in Princeton, New Jersey.  This seminar explores this network and its considerable impact on the perceptions and policies that shaped a postwar order.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.