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Between the crisis of democracy and world parliament: the development of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the 1920s

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The Great War created new challenges for the proponents of pre-1914 cosmopolitanism. This article explores this theme by studying the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an international association of members of parliament active in the interwar period. The IPU is first taken as a case study to discuss the difficulty of clearly differentiating between national politicians and agents of international civil society during the years between the wars. The article then shows how pre-war liberal internationalists had to reorient after the First World War, and how socialists and nationalists brought new agendas to the realm of international cooperation at the non-governmental level. These new perspectives shaping the international system even led to far-reaching plans for a world parliament. However, the IPU's history also shows how domestic political polarization contributed to the failure of interwar internationalism.

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  • Albers, Martin, 2012. "Between the crisis of democracy and world parliament: the development of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the 1920s," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 7(2), pages 189-209, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jglhis:v:7:y:2012:i:02:p:189-209_00
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