Davies - NGOs A New History of Transnational Civil Society

NGOs
Thomas Davies
NGOs
A New History of
Transnational Civil Society
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1. Emergence to 1914
19
Early History to 1767 20
The Emergence of Modern INGOs, 17671869 23
Consolidation of the First Wave, 18701900 44
P roliferation and Decline, 19011914 65
2.19141939
77
The First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the
Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society, 19141919 78
The Development of Transnational Civil Society in the 1920s 92
From Consolidation to Collapse, 19301939 106
3. 1939 to the Present Day
123
The Second World War, the Onset of the Cold War and the
Division of Transnational Civil Society 124
The Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society from the
1960s to the 1980s 141
From Coalitions to Crisis, 1990 to the Present Day 154
Conclusion 175
The Three Waves of Transnational Civil Society 177
Explaining the Three Waves 178
Future Possibilities 181
Notes 183
Further Reading 243
Index 269

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author benefited from the help of many people in writing this book.
He is particularly grateful to Professor Martin Ceadel at New College,
Oxford, for suggesting this avenue of research. Colleagues at the University of Oxford and City University London provided stimulating
environments in which the research for this volume was undertaken.
The author was supported by a period of sabbatical leave and a PumpPriming Grant from City University London. Research assistance from
Dr Holly Ryan was invaluable, as was the advice of colleagues and students,
especially Professor Peter Willetts and Dr Alejandro Pea. The author is
indebted to the archivists and librarians at the many institutions which
housed the works cited in this volume, as well as to the staff of Hurst Publishers. Numerous academics provided insights which influenced this volume, and the author is especially grateful to the anonymous reviewers of
the manuscript. The author is most indebted of all to his family, especially
to his mother, Pauline Davies, to whom this book is dedicated.
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INTRODUCTION
The more than 20,000 international non-governmental organizations

(INGOs) operating today span almost every sector of human activity.
Their work includes Amnesty Internationals promotion of human rights
in 150 countries, BRACs $9 billion microfinance programme and the
humanitarian assistance provided by 30,000 Mdecins Sans Frontires.
INGOs memberships may exceed the populations of many countries,
and the largestthe International Cooperative Allianceunites a billion cooperators in ninety-one countries. INGOs provide services varying from the resolution of more international disputes by the arbitration
procedures of the International Chamber of Commerce than by those of
the International Court of Justice, to the welfare services of the Muslim
Brotherhood that exceed those provided by governments in multiple
countries. Since the end of the Cold War, INGO campaigns for the banning of landmines, diminution of developing countries debt burdens,
abandonment of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the creation of an International Criminal Court have been hailed as examples
of successful transnational activism. It is through the lens of the history
of INGOs that this book aims to provide a new history of transnational
civil society.
Despite the burgeoning literature that has developed over the last two
decades on INGOs, their history to date, as Samuel Moyn has argued,
has been barely assayed.1 This volume aims to address this deficit and
to provide a new history of transnational civil society through (i) revealing how INGOs have a far longer history than traditionally assumed;
(ii) exploring the Eastern as well as the Western origins of INGOs; (iii)
considering the history of a broader range of INGOs than previous studies; (iv) delineating how in contrast to conventional wisdom the history

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY
of INGOs has developed in a cyclical pattern; and (v) providing an

explanatory framework for this pattern of evolution. After introducing
the concepts taken forward in this volume, this chapter outlines these
contributions, before introducing the sources used and the organization
of the subsequent chapters.
Transnational Civil Society and International Non-Governmental

Organizations
Transnational civil society refers to non-governmental non-profit collective action that transcends national boundaries but which does not
necessarily have global reach. It is a relatively recent concept, but draws
from the classical notion of societas civilis, a rule-governed political community based on consent and therefore peacefulor civilin its operation.2 In the present day, the concept of civil society is understood not
to include either the governmental or the profit-making aspects of social
interaction, but the role of civility implicit in the original term remains
significant.3 In the context of contemporary globalization, it is claimed
that civil society may now have become global, consisting of institutions that straddle the whole earth, and have complex effects that are felt
in its four corners.4 However, even for many of its proponents, truly
global civil society may still be a project or an aspiration rather than an
empirically observable phenomenon.5 That civil society may be transnationali.e. involves interactions across the borders of statesis much
less contentious.6
The institutions of transnational civil society are numerous, and include
advocacy networks and social movements as well as more formally organized INGOs. Transnational advocacy networks consist of actors in multiple countries united by shared ideals and linked by exchanges of services
and information.7 Keck and Sikkink have shown how through a boomerang pattern of influence, by which groups in one country appeal for
the assistance of those in other countries, transnational advocacy networks have helped to bring about political changes such as the end of
apartheid in South Africa.8 Transnational social movements are similar
to advocacy networks, but involve more sustained mobilization and may
be broader in scope.9 While this book makes reference to advocacy networks and social movements, the key focus is upon INGOs, which participate in advocacy networks and social movements but the activities of
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which extend far further. INGOs are overwhelmingly considered to be

the key actors in transnational civil society.10 Furthermore, given their
formal organizational structures, INGOs have often left clearly identifiable records on which to base research.
The term INGO is far more recent in origin than the actors to which
this label is applied. Prior to the formation of the United Nations it was
common instead to refer to them as private international organizations.11
The new label dates to the reference in Article 71 of the United Nations
Charter to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)s capacity to
consult with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with
matters within its competence.12 ECOSOC chose to define an INGO
simply as any international organization which is not established by
intergovernmental agreement but has in practice excluded profit-making international corporations, as have the vast majority of definitions of
INGOs.13 Also excluded from most understandings are organizations
operating solely in one country, which in this volume will usually be
referred to as NGOs.14 In common with the wider literature, this volume will exclude profit-making, criminal and terrorist organizations from
consideration as INGOs.15
While some INGOssuch as Amnesty Internationalplace advocacy at the centre of their objectives, otherssuch as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbersfocus their attention more
on service provision.16 This volume will address both service and advocacy INGOs. As the opening paragraph of this chapter indicated, the
breadth of INGO activity is vast, ranging from the academic (such as the
International Council of Scientific Unions) to the revolutionary (such as
the International Workingmens Association), from business (such as the
International Chamber of Commerce) to humanitarianism (such as
Mdecins Sans Frontires), and from the professions (such as the International Federation of Accountants) to sport (such as the Fdration
Internationale de Football Association). While it is impossible to cover
all of the many thousands of INGOs that have existed, this volume will
seek to ensure that its scope reflects this breadth of INGO activity, and
in turn the breadth of transnational civil society.
The Long History of Transnational Civil Society

It remains all too common in recent literature to claim that transnational
civil society is a novel phenomenon. Claims such as that NGOs are new

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forces in international politics or largely a product of twentieth-century

politics or that a transnational organization like CIVICUS did not
seem imaginable prior to the end of the Cold War are a frequent feature
in introductions to the topic.17 At the turn of the twenty-first century it
was argued that a veritable global associational revolution appears to
be underway, a massive upsurge of organized, private voluntary activity
in literally every corner of the world, which some viewed as a potential
answer to war.18 However, claims such as these are far from unprecedented. At the onset of the twentieth century, US legal scholar Paul
Reinsch claimed that the barren ideal of no war, no patriotism, no local
interest, has given way to a potent centripetal force cosmopolitanism
is no longer a castle in the air, but it has become incorporated in numerous associations and unions world-wide in their co-operation.19 Likewise in 1933, the pioneer student of INGOs, Lyman Cromwell White,
argued that the international politics of his time featured literally hundreds of private international organizations dealing with practically every
subject of interest to human beings [and which] influence almost every
activity of human beings.20 Each of these authors was writing at what
may be considered to be the three peaks of transnational civil society
explored in this study.
Existing work taking a longer-term perspective on the evolution of
INGOs and transnational civil society has tended to take as its starting
point the late nineteenth century.21 Paul Otlet and Henri LaFontaine,
the founders of the principal data repository on INGOs (the Union of
International Associations), concentrated their attention on organizations from that time onwards.22 It is not uncommon to argue that the
earliest INGO was the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
(BFASS), now known as Anti-Slavery International, which was established in London in 1839.23 However, this organization did not appear
out of nowhere. The first chapter of this volume reveals for the first time
an important transition that took place between the 1760s and the 1860s
by which ancient forms of organization such as religious orders and secret
societies were superseded by a diverse array of INGOs in a broad range
of fields of activity.24 The transitional INGOs of this period laid the foundations for the more enduring and better-known INGOs of the late
nineteenth century, and many of them are discussed for the first time in
this volume.
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A New Perspective
Beyond its exploration of the deep historical roots of transnational civil
society, this volume aims to provide a new perspective through its consideration of transnational civil societys origins beyond the West,
through its unprecedented scope, and by evaluating how transnational
civil society developed in a cyclical pattern.
As John Hobson has argued, traditional accounts of world history have
had a tendency to underplay the significance of developments beyond the
European context in the origins of modernity.25 This has been the case
with existing studies of the history of transnational civil society as it has
for other institutions of international relations.26 In his account of the evolution of transnational humanitarianism, for instance, Michael Barnett
has claimed that it is rooted in Western history and globalized in ways
that were largely responsive to interests and ideas emanating from the
West.27 This volume, on the other hand, reveals the crucial role played by
ideas and institutions beyond the Western context in the development of
transnational civil society, especially from the late eighteenth century.
Although the comparative scarcity of source materials on INGOs
beyond the West, particularly in the earlier years of their development,
has limited the degree of coverage in this volume of the evolution of
transnational civil society outside Western Europe and North America,
this volume takes greater consideration of the Eastern origins of transnational civil society than much existing work. More generally, the range
of INGO activities covered is broader than in any previous study, and
includes business and professional associations, revolutionary and scientific societies, and religious and pan-nationalist groups, in addition to the
traditional areas of concern such as development, environmentalism, feminism, humanitarianism, human rights and peace.28
A key feature of existing literature on transnational civil society which
this volume aims to challenge is the assumption that in the present day
transnational civil society is of unprecedented scale and significance.
Jessica Matthews claim that increasingly, NGOs are able to push around
even the largest governments The steady concentration of power in
the hands of states that began in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia is
over is symptomatic of the optimism surrounding the topic in the late
1990s.29 Although some authors since then have questioned the impact
and significance of INGOs and transnational civil society in the present

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day,30 claims that there has been an epic and irreversible shift in favour
of such actors which have sturdily emerged have persisted.31 This volume aims to show not only that the impact of transnational civil society
in the past has been far more considerable than traditionally assumed,
but also that this influence fluctuates considerably, and continues to do
so in the present day.
Amongst the most common claims in much of the existing literature
on INGOs and transnational civil society is that it has developed in a linear fashion. For example, in one of the leading textbooks on INGOs
Ahmed and Potter claim that there has been a steady increase with a
marked upturn after World War II,32 while the titles of numerous articles and books on global and transnational civil society portray the topic
of investigation as being the rise of the phenomenon.33 This is the case in
respect of works of history as well as political science.34 This volume, on
the other hand, suggests a cyclical pattern, and argues that transnational
civil society has developed in three waves with peaks reached in the decades
preceding the two World Wars, and at the turn of the millennium.35
The Dimensions of Transnational Civil Societys Evolution

Studies that claim the unprecedented rise of INGOs and transnational
civil society in the present day tend to base their arguments on a few limited aspects of the phenomenon. By far the most common is the number of INGOs that have existed over time, which by some accounts may
have increased from 400 in 1909 to 25,000 by the onset of the twentyfirst century.36 Nearly all authors describing the apparently considerable
expansion in the number of INGOs rely for their data on the Union of
International Associations Yearbook of International Organizations, the
charts in the statistical volume of which almost universally reveal a dramatic increase in INGO numberswhich is not surprising given the
organizations founding objective to promote the work of international
associations.37 It is difficult to challenge the argument that INGO numbers are vastly greater in the present day than in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. However, the number of INGOs alone may be a
misleading unit of analysis for assessing the shifts in the scale of transnational civil society in general, since, for instance, an increase in the
number of INGOs could represent simply the fragmentation of transnational civil society into smaller and less active or significant groups.
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The other principal piece of evidence used to support arguments concerning the unprecedented rise of INGOs and transnational civil society is the way in which they have become seemingly more efficacious
in the post-Cold War period, with reference to examples such as the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jubilee 2000.38 However, the task of separating the role of civil society organizations as
opposed to other actors in examples of apparent impact such as these is
exceptionally difficult. Even harder to determine is the relative importance of the developments attributed to transnational civil society actors
in the post-Cold War era in comparison with earlier periods of history.
Do the apparent achievements cited in this paragraph from the postCold War era compare in scale to earlier apparent achievements discussed later in this volume, such as the abolition of the slave trade, the
creation of the League of Nations and the enfranchisement of women
in many countries?
As Anheier has argued, measuring transnational civil society is an
immense task, which is not helped by a statistical world order centred
around national units of assessment.39 A short history such as this cannot cover the immense range of possible means of assessing the dimensions of the phenomenon. However, this book does aim to adopt a much
broader perspective on the evolution of transnational civil society than
the limited focus upon INGO numbers and campaign impact that has
dominated recent work on the subject.
Given the emphasis of participation in contemporary assessments of
transnational civil society, an aspect of the evolution of transnational civil
society that this volume will consider is membership of INGOs and participation in transnational civil society campaigns. Units of analysis such
as these may reveal an evolutionary path that is far from linear. For
instance, the international petition to which the greatest proportion of
the worlds population adhered was not the much-celebrated Jubilee 2000
petition of the late twentieth century, or even the Live 8 List of the early
twenty-first century, but a petition for international disarmament circulated by womens organizations in the early 1930s.40 As this study will
also show, the memberships of some of the most prominent INGOs have
also declined significantly in recent years, and an even greater decline
may be evident if memberships as a proportion of global population are
taken into account.
A further means of gaining insight into the state of transnational civil
society at any time may be, as Anheier has suggested, civility a com
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bined measure of cosmopolitan values such as tolerance, concern for

humankind, and solidarity with and compassion towards those in need.41
Such a measure is arguably impossible to produce, especially given the
lack of opinion polling evidence for much of the period of this study, but
a qualitative assessment of the state of cosmopolitan values may be made
through assessment of attitudes expressed in correspondence, literature,
media and statements made in different periods by representative individuals and organizations. This study will therefore consider how united
transnational civil society appears to be in respect of cosmopolitan values in different periods of history on the basis of a qualitative assessment
of the perspectives of INGOs and transnational campaigns. Again, this
study will find that, far from witnessing linear development of cosmopolitan values and the unity of transnational civil society around these
values, they have evolved in an apparently cyclical fashion.
Additional aspects of the evolution of transnational civil society and
INGOs referred to in this volume include, but are not limited to, geographical reach, the financial and human resources of INGOs, the range
of issues of concern to INGOs and transnational networks, and the volume and scale of INGO and transnational network activities, such as
conferences, demonstrations and publications. Consideration will be given
to the political and social environment in which transnational civil society and INGOs operate, noting such aspects as the openness of national
and international institutions to non-governmental participation. The
analysis combines quantitative and qualitative assessments, with emphasis upon qualitative judgement. Given the exceptional breadth of transnational civil society and the vast number of INGOs that have existed,
the emphasis in this volume will be upon provision of representative
material. The approach adopted in this volume may be described as classical in that it is characterised above all by explicit reliance on judgement
and by the assumption that if we confine ourselves to strict standards of
verification and proof there is very little of significance that can be said
about international relations.42
Any effort to trace the evolution of the state of transnational civil society over time has to confront the problem of the difficulty of comparing
very different periods of history. For most of the period within the scope
of this volume, the terms transnational civil society and INGOs did not
even exist, and what this volume refers to by these terms has very different features in the present day compared with 200 years ago. Neverthe8
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less, it is hoped that the central focus of this work on INGOs, with their
common characteristics of basic organizational form over time, provides
a degree of consistency of focus throughout the more than two centuries
covered in this volume.
Explaining the Evolution of Transnational Civil Society

On the basis of the wide range of aspects of transnational civil societys
evolution considered in this volume, a broadly cyclical pattern of development is delineated, with each chapter exploring one of the three major
waves in the evolution of transnational civil society peaking at the turn
of the twentieth century, between the World Wars, and following the
end of the Cold War. A key argument in the analysis presented in this
volume is that the factors underpinning the ascent of transnational civil
society in each of these phases in the short term are commonly the same
factors that in the long term contribute towards transnational civil
societys decline. Furthermore, factors which in the short term may
inhibit transnational civil society may in the long term facilitate renewal.
Also central to the analysis presented here is the argument that factors
internal to transnational civil society are as crucial as those external to
it, and that transnational society therefore may contribute towards its
own decline.
A summary of some of the principal factors relevant to explaining the
evolution of transnational civil society is provided in Table 1.44 The table
does not distinguish between facilitative and inhibitive factors, since
many of the factors may have both impacts, depending on whether short
or long term perspectives are taken. The external factors may be divided
into scientific/technological, environmental, economic, social and political factors.
The role of technology has gained considerable attention in the last
two decades, especially the use of mobile telephones and the internet in
facilitating rapid communication within and between associations.45 In
this volume, technology will be shown to have had an important part to
play in the development of transnational civil society throughout the last
two centuries, including the enhanced speed of communications facilitated by the telegraph and steamship in the nineteenth century, and aeroplane travel and television in the twentieth.46 However, the same
technology that may be said to empower transnational civil society may
be equally effective in hindering it: information and communications

technology facilitates the activities not only of transnational civil society
organizations, but also their adversaries, and has been a vital tool for governments to monitor and to control non-governmental actors.47
Table 1: A Selection of Factors Influencing the Rise and Fall of Transnational
Civil Society (TCS)43
Category
Factor
Scientific/Technological
New technologies (e.g. telephone, steamship,

aeroplane, internet)
Development of knowledge (e.g. methods of TCS
and its opponents)
Environmental
Economic
Social
External Political
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Emergence of transnational environmental issues

(e.g. climate change, HIV)
Economic growth/interdependence/globalization
Global economic problems (e.g. NorthSouth
inequality, Great Depression)
Demographic changes (e.g. urbanization)

Global consciousness/education re. transnational
issues
Donor fatigue
Interstate harmony/peace
International political divisions/war
Balance of power
Transnational political problems
Rise and decline of nation states
Evolution and orientation of national NGOs/
domestic civil society
Imperialism and its decline/decolonization
Convening of international congresses and worlds
fairs
Development of international governmental
organizations
Evolution of international rules and norms
Spread of liberal/democratic national political
institutions
Rise and fall of illiberal/undemocratic national
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Internal Political
TCS unity/co-ordination/centralization
TCS heterogeneity/divisions/decentralization
Nature of TCS objectives/policy/propaganda
Accountability, finance and internal governing
structures of INGOs
Leadership of INGOs
Achievement of objectives of TCS
Development of TCS expertise, experience, etc.
TCS links to governments
Environmental factors have a similar dual impact. It has been common to argue that in recent years the transnational nature of global environmental issues has provided new opportunities for civil society actors
to address problems which the machinery of geographically delimited
states may be inadequate to address. It is thought that the inability of
states effectively to deal with transnational environmental problems may
have led to the development of an alternative world civic politics to deal
with these issues that may bypass state institutions altogether.48 However, the detrimental impact of environmental problems is also a significant source of societal disruption and conflict,49 which has the potential
to undermine the economic, social and political conditions under which
transnational civil society may be said to flourish.
As regards economic factors, extremely high correlations have been
noted between the annual number of INGOs founded over the last
century and a half and indicators of economic development such as government revenues and exports.50 More generally, the expansion of transnational civil society appears to correlate with periods of economic
growth, whether the nineteenth-century expansion of long-distance trade,
or the development of turbocapitalism at the end of the twentieth century.51 Periods of economic contraction, on the other hand, have paralleled periods of contraction in transnational civil society activities, most
notably the era of the Great Depression during which INGOs suffered
a considerable loss of income.52
The social factors that may be said to influence the evolution of transnational civil society are highly diverse. In common with economic development indicators, social changes such as urbanization and education
correlate strongly with INGO foundation numbers.53 Psychological changes

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such as the apparent emergence of a common consciousness of human

society on a world scale also seem to have played a role in making civil
society appear possible at the global level.54 On the other hand, psychological changes such as compassion fatigue may have the reverse impact.55
Amongst the most significant external factors influencing the development of transnational civil society are external political factors, known
in sociological literature on social movements as political opportunity
structures.56 The creation of new intergovernmental organizations and
the opening up of such bodies to non-state influence appear to facilitate
the emergence of new INGOs.57 Other political factors that may be
favourable to the development of transnational civil society include
democratization,58 favourable geopolitical circumstances (such as the
ending of the Cold War),59 the development of transnational political
issues which cannot be handled at the national level alone,60 globalization of the rule of law,61 and novel periods of peace.62 Boli and Thomas
have noted how interstate warfare has had an interesting dual impact on
the development of INGOs, with the World Wars initially leading to a
decrease in INGO foundations but in the long term strengthening the
notion of the planet as a single polity. They have also argued that global
organizing proceeds in mutually reinforcing tension with the expansion
of the nation state system. INGOs began to proliferate during the heyday of nationalism in Europe.63 In his analysis of the cyclicality of INGO
impact on intergovernmental organizations, Charnovitz has noted the
role of governments changing needs, relying on INGO help when creating intergovernmental organizations or handling new issues, but pulling back when they felt they were no longer dependent on INGOs
assistance.64 There are many further political factors that both facilitate
the development of transnational civil society on the one hand but which
may contribute towards its demise in the long term, such as decolonization which facilitated not only expansion of the geographical scope of
transnational civil society but also the splitting of transnational civil society into regional blocs, and globalization in general which, as Lundestad has argued, exists in a dialectical relationship with [fragmentation]
when globalization is strengthened, so is fragmentation.65
In this volume it is argued that it is not only changing external political circumstances such as these that may explain cyclicality in the development of transnational civil society, but also the characteristics of
transnational civil society actors, including INGOs themselves. In his
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work on cycles of contention in domestic social movements, Tarrow has

noted the importance of diffusion processes and the use by social movements of new or transformed symbols, frames of meaning, and ideologies to justify and dignify collective action in the formative periods of
individual social movements.66 It is argued in this book that similar processes of diffusion and framing are also vital in the development of transnational civil society as a whole, as new INGOs and transnational
campaigns learn from the experience of previous efforts and as INGOs
and activists shape understandings of global issues to mobilize greater
support for their causes.67 When individual social movements demobilize, Tarrow argues, this may be the result of, inter alia, exhaustion or factionalization.68 As this volume will demonstrate, exhaustion and
factionalization have been key processes in the evolution and decline of
transnational civil society activities too. Furthermore, a central argument
in this book is that the way in which transnational civil society actors have
framed issues, and the consequences of transnational civil society actions
that in the short term may have appeared to have been indicative of success, have commonly undermined the phenomenon in the longer term.
Historical Sources on Transnational Civil Society

Whereas traditional historical work focused on the evolution of governmental decision-making often has the benefit of well-catalogued and
centralized national archives on which to rely, the same is rarely true of
the archives of INGOs and other transnational civil society actors that
are the focus of this study.69 However, since INGOs and transnational
civil society actors commonly target governmental institutions, there are
materials in government archives of direct relevance to a study like this,
such as the correspondence between civil society representatives and governmental policy-makers, and reports commissioned by government
agencies on non-governmental activities at home and abroad. Consultation of sources like these in both repositories such as the UK National
Archives and published collections of documents such as Foreign Relations
of the United States Diplomatic Papers has therefore formed part of the
basis for this study.
Of equal significance are the records of intergovernmental organizations on non-governmental activities: the League of Nations, for instance,
not only corresponded with INGO representatives, but also sent repre
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sentatives of its own to observe and report on numerous transnational

civil society events; and the United Nations collects reports on the activities of INGOs in consultative status with the Economic and Social
Council. The records and publications of intergovernmental organizations, particularly the League of Nations and United Nations, have therefore also been consulted in the course of the production of this volume.
As for the records of INGOs, although many have not survived and it
is common for INGO records to be inaccessible, incomplete or poorly
catalogued, this study has benefited from the consultation of the archives
of INGOs and their national branches. These include archives that have
been deposited in university libraries, such as those of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in the Rhodes House library in Oxford, the
International Council of Women in the Womens Library in London, and
the Ligue des Droits de lHomme in the Bibliothque de Documentation
Internationale Contemporaine in Nanterre. These also include archives
held by other organizations, such as those of the Socialist International
in the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the International Consultative Group at the United Nations Office in Geneva, and
the Union of International Associations at the Mundaneum in Mons.
Archives held by INGOs themselves have also been consulted, such as
those of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies and the World Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations
in Geneva. Information on the contemporary activities of INGOs is often
more readily available on their websites, and some have used their websites to make available key historical documents on their activities, so these
have also been consulted in the course of production of this volume.
Further sources of relevance to the study of the evolution of INGOs
and transnational civil society which are commonly referred to in this
volume include the publications of INGOs and transnational campaigns,
such as congress proceedings, annual reports, pamphlets and official histories. Particularly useful have been the extensive collections of such
materials in the British Library, the International Institute of Social History, the National Library of France, the Royal Library of Belgium, and
the United Nations Office in Geneva. Also consulted have been the private papers of leading individuals in transnational organizations and campaigns, and of individuals who were the targets of these organizations
and campaigns. Data collated by research institutions concerning INGOs
and transnational civil society, most notably the Union of International
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Associations, has also been referred to. The Annuaires de la Vie Internationale of the early twentieth century, the Handbooks of International Organizations of the League of Nations period, and the Yearbooks of International
Organizations of the post-war era are the most comprehensive surveys
of the state of INGOs and transnational civil society of their respective
periods, and therefore have been key source materials for this study.
The range of possible sources on the evolution of transnational civil
society is vast, and each form of source material is limited. Records kept
by organizations, whether governmental or non-governmental, are likely
to reflect the perceived interests of those working for the organizations;
and information on wealthy, formal actors from developed countries is
much more readily available than that on less well-resourced, informal
actors from developing parts of the world. Nevertheless, through its use
of selected material from the broad range of possible primary sources mentioned here, it is hoped that the research upon which this study is based
overcomes the limitations of reliance upon any one form of source material. Relevant existing secondary literature has also been referred to, and
is summarized in the further reading suggestions at the end of this book.
Chapter Outline
This volume dedicates a single chapter to each of the three principal waves
of transnational civil society activities: emergence to 1914, 19141939,
and 1939 to the present day. Each chapter has a broadly common tripartite structure, commencing with an evaluation of the emergence of each
wave and the factors facilitating it, followed by an assessment of the peak
of the wave, and concluding with a discussion of the decline and the factors underpinning that decline. Within each chapter, special attention is
paid to the creation of notable new INGOs in each phase, and to representative material to illustrate the scale and impact of transnational civil
society in each period, as well as the factors responsible for that scale and
impact. Each of the major sectors of INGO activity are covered, including communications, development, education, environment, health,
human rights, humanitarianism, labour, law, peace, professions, recreation,
service, sport, standardization, women and youth. While profit-making
corporations are excluded from the analysis, non-profit-making INGOs
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the Roman Catholic Church are not the key focus of this volume, religious orders such as the Order of St John and religious sects such as the
Quakers are mentioned, and some religious INGOs such as the World
Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations are included due to their
pioneering role in the development of transnational civil society.
The first chapter commences with a discussion of early INGOs and
associational activities predating the development of contemporary transnational civil society. The main analysis begins in the late eighteenth century, and the first chapter assesses the many new INGOs that developed
between the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries that existing
studies have tended to neglect.70 It looks at the factors that made possible the development of transnational civil society in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries and evaluates the origins of INGOs in this period,
including the influence of interactions between East and West. Amongst
the aspects considered are activism in respect of both African and white
slavery, the early humanitarian, labour and womens movements, and the
first scientific societies and international business, professional, standardization and sporting associations. It is argued that a peak was reached at
the onset of the twentieth century, with transnational peace activism at
the Hague Conferences and the emergence of the Union of International
Associations. It is emphasized that the development of transnational civil
society occurred in parallel with the development of the nation-state,
and that aspects internal to transnational civil society contributed towards
its decline in the build-up to the First World War.
The second chapter covers one the most neglected periods of the history of transnational civil society and INGOs: that between the two
World Wars.71 Contrary to conventional wisdom, it reveals the great
breadth and scale of transnational non-governmental activities that developed after the First World War and which peaked at the time of the
World Disarmament Conference in 19324. The role of transnational
civil society in the formation of the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization is discussed, as is the subsequent role of these
organizations in providing opportunities for transnational civil society.
The emergence of new INGOs in fields such as business, humanitarianism, health and education is covered, and the transformation of INGOs
into stronger institutions is evaluated with reference to examples such as
the International Chamber of Commerce. The scale and impact of transnational civil society in this period is evident in the relief efforts in the
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INTRODUCTION
aftermath of the First World War, work for the protection of minorities,
anti-colonial and Islamic social movement organizations, and transnational disarmament activism. As in the previous chapter, the development of highly ambitious transnational coalitions just before a subsequent
collapse of transnational civil society activities is discussed, as are the factors contributing towards the decline, including the activities of INGOs
such as those in the movement for disarmament.
The period from the Second World War until the present day is the
focus of the third chapter. It highlights the dual role of the Cold War as
a factor not only splitting transnational civil society (such as in the case
of the labour movement), but also providing the conditions under which
considerable integration could take place within the Cold War blocs and
which could form a basis for the strengthening of transnational civil society in the long term. The emergence of new development organizations
such as Oxfam, new human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, and new environmentalist organizations such as Friends of the
Earth is used to illustrate the developing scope of transnational civil society, and the creation of regional organizations such as the Afro-Asian
Peoples Solidarity Organization is used to illustrate the broadening geographical scale of transnational civil society. The interactions of INGOs
with intergovernmental organizations including the United Nations and
the World Bank are discussed, as is the role of transnational civil society
in decolonization. The apparent peak of transnational civil society in the
1980s and 1990s is illustrated with reference to examples including the
movement against nuclear weapons, the revolutions of 1989, and the
campaigns surrounding baby milk substitutes and the banning of landmines, as well as the role of INGOs in the development of the internet.
Contrary to traditional portrayals of the evolution of transnational civil
society in this period, this chapter proceeds to a discussion of how transnational civil society may have declined in the twenty-first century, and
evaluates the factors underpinning that decline, including the actions of
transnational civil society actors. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the possible turning point of transnational civil society in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The final chapter sums up the volumes findings on the role of transnational civil society in history and the way in which it has evolved. It
recapitulates the key characteristics of each period considered in the preceding chapters, and the factors responsible for explaining them. The

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concluding chapter also considers the possible future trajectories of transnational civil society, as well as the openings for further research into the
evolution of transnational civil society and INGOs.
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1
EMERGENCE TO 1914
In a pamphlet published in 1914, the Union of International Associations observed that there were in existence approximately 400 international associations, most of them non-governmental, covering the whole
field of study and activity and each aiming to constitute the most representative forces of the different countries in their own particular domain.1
This chapter explores the evolution of transnational civil society to that
point, principally through the lens of the development of INGOs. After
a brief introduction to the early history of INGOs, the chapter highlights
the hitherto under-explored transformation that took place from the mid
eighteenth until the mid nineteenth centuries as ancient forms of organization such as religious orders were surpassed by new international associations in a vast range of issue-areas. The many factors influencing this
transformation are discussed, including the role of EastWest contacts,
Enlightenment ideas and the effects of the Industrial Revolution. The
chapter proceeds to an assessment of the period from 1870 until 1900, a
phase of particularly rapid growth in INGO formation during which
many well-known and enduring INGOs in multiple fields of activity were
established, and which culminated in large-scale transnational associational activity at the first Hague Conference of 1899. It shows how in the
late nineteenth century transnational civil society influenced national and
international policy and developed new techniques for transnational lobbying. The concluding section of this chapter provides an assessment of
how, despite the proliferation of INGOs in the first decade of the twentieth century, transnational civil society actors fell into decline even before

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the outbreak of the First World War. In each phase, the role of both external and internal factors in explaining the expansion and decline of transnational civil society is evaluated.
Early History to 1767

The deep roots of transnational civil society may be traced to the bordercrossing forms of association that existed among Jews and Christians in
the classical world two millennia ago.2 However, before the late eighteenth century the variety of what are now understood to be INGOs was
inconsiderable. They consisted overwhelmingly of religious organizations, including religious orders, charities and missionary societies as well
as quasi-religious fraternal societies, and a limited range of other forms
of cross-border association, including for the purposes of trade, performing arts and science. A selection of these organizations is given in Table
2. These ancient INGOs in some cases had properties in common with
states, such as sovereign recognition, and some of them existed long before
a recognizable society of states in the modern sense had emerged.
Table 2: Illustrative table of selected INGOs founded to the mid eighteenth
century
Category
Illustrative INGO, with year of foundation
Religious order
Roman Catholice.g. Order of St John, 1099

Protestante.g. Religious Society of Friends, 1647
Islamice.g. Naqshbandiyyah, 1350
Ladies of Charity, 1617 (international from 1634)
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1698
Hanseatic League, 1161
Grand Lodge of England, 1717
I Gelosi, 1569
Academia Secretorum Naturae, 1560
Charity
Missionary society
Merchant hanse
Fraternal society
Performing arts
Scientific society
By far the most numerous of the ancient forms of INGO that survive
into the present day are transnational religious orders (RINGOs).
Although its records date only to the sixteenth century, the oldest may
be the Sovereign Constantinian Order, which purports to have been
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founded at the time of the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity in the fourth century.3 By the end of the sixteenth century, it has
been estimated that the number of Roman Catholic religious INGOs to
have been established had increased to at least ninety.4 These included
the Orders of Benedictine and Cistercian monks and organizations associated with the crusades such as the Knights Templar and the Hospitaller Order of Saint John, out of which the Saint John Ambulance
movement was later to develop in the nineteenth century.5 They were
joined by Protestant RINGOs from the fifteenth century, the oldest of
which claims to be the Moravian Church.6 In Asia, the Church of the
East developed extensive geographical distribution from the sixth century,7 and Sufi tariqahs such as the Naqshbandi order expanded their
reach across much of the Islamic world from the twelfth century.8
Religious orders are notable not only for their extensive history, geographical reach and in many cases survival into the present day, but also
for the crucial role that they played in the development of horizontal
relationships among people in different contexts before the emergence
of the public sphere.9 Their subsequent influence can be seen in the names
of many later organizations dedicated to objectives extending beyond
religion, such as the Independent Order of Good Templars, a temperance organization formed in the mid nineteenth century following the
model of earlier religious orders.
A religious movement that was to play a particularly significant role
in the later development of transnational activism and INGOs was the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Members of this movement were
to be critical in the origins of anti-slavery and peace societies. Formed
amid the upheaval of mid seventeenth-century England,10 before the end
of the century they are said to have become a transnational society with
members in America, throughout the British isles, and on the Continent.11 Contrary to popular perceptions, early Quakers were inclined
not to eschew revolutionary violence until their January 1661 declaration against plots and fightings that was put forward in response to arrests
during the Fifth Monarchy uprising.12
The oldest transnational charitable organizations are of religious origin. Particularly significant in their development was the formation in
the seventeenth century by Saint Vincent de Paul of Catholic charitable
organizations in France and beyond, which today form the basis of the
World Wide Vincentian Family.13 Among these, the International

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of Charities describes itself as the first lay womens organisation in the world,14 now with over 250,000 volunteers in more than
fifty countries.15 Although the present international organization was created in 1971, the International Association of Charities traces its origins
to a Confrrie de la Charit established by Saint Vincent de Paul in
Chtillon les Dombes in 1617, composed of lay women aiming to visit
and to nourish the sick poor.16 It claims to have internationalized by
1634 with the establishment of sister organizations in both France and
Italy.17 The organizations established by Saint Vincent de Paul continued
a tradition of Catholic confraternities and guilds that may have preceded
the 410 sack of Rome, including some that had charitable objectives.18
Of even deeper roots are Christian missionary activities, which developed from the first century AD.19 By the seventeenth century, the missionary work of Roman Catholic religious orders such as the Jesuits was
paralleled by that of first Protestant missionary societies, many of which
survive to the present day, such as the New England Company (formed
in 1649) and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK,
formed in 1698).20 Christian missionaries were also confronted with
increasingly organized oppositional bodies such as the All Indian Pueblo
Council, which traces its origins to the first recorded meeting with the
conquistadores of 1598, and which appears to have been well organized
by 1680, although the current structure dates to the 1920s.21 Missionary
bodies such as SPCK were to be important in providing models of organization later adopted by INGOs with secular objectives, notably the
creation of auxiliary societies in multiple countries.
Although the great majority of INGOs dating to before the mid eighteenth century were of religious origin, there were other notable forms of
association. Some of these adopted quasi-religious forms, such as fraternal secret societies. Freemasons developed across state boundaries; the
Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717, for instance, and boasted
several lodges beyond Britain and the Empire by 1740.22 In the educational sector, ancient universities would attract scholars and students from
multiple countries, and the scientific revolution that took place in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was accompanied by the development of associations of scholars. Londons Royal Society, for example, was
established in 1660 and developed a pan-European fellowship.23 In the
commercial sector, the establishment of colonies and consulates by merchant guilds in other countries was common practice.24 So too was the
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operation on a cross-border basis of groups of performing artists such as

I Gelosi.25 Before the late eighteenth century, however, the scope for crossborder associationalism beyond religious activities remained limited.
The Emergence of Modern INGOs, 17671869

It may be argued that the period from the late eighteenth century until
the mid nineteenth century saw the transition from ancient forms of
what are now termed INGOs, such as religious orders and secret societies, to contemporary INGOs in multiple issue-areas. It should be noted
that ancient forms of INGO such as religious orders have continued to
be founded right up to the present day. However, beginning in the 1760s,
and developing at a much enhanced rate in the early nineteenth century,
ancient INGOs such as those previously listed in Table 2 were superseded by a greatly more varied array of new INGOs. The scope of these
new INGOs is demonstrated in Table 3, and is indicative of several significant divergences from their predecessors with respect to their issuearea focus: (i) diversification; (ii) specialization; and (iii) secularization,
although religion remained important for many. Unlike their betterknown successors of the late nineteenth century, few of these organizations were to endure for significant periods. Given their brief lifespan,
the new INGOs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
have in many cases been forgotten until now, but they mark a significant
break from the ancient INGOs that preceded them, and they helped
make possible the INGOs established on a more enduring basis in the
latter half of the nineteenth century.
The period during which the novel forms of INGOs such as those
listed in Table 3 developed was one of significant change. The term international entered into discourse, in respect of which application of the
more recent term transnational to activities taking place at the time
becomes increasingly meaningful, given the historical context. The period
coincides broadly with the duration of the first Industrial Revolution,
and the political revolutions of the 1770s-1790s, 1830 and 1848, each of
which, as the subsequent discussion will show, was to have a significant
impact on the development of transnational civil society. This phase was
shaped by the political effects of Enlightenment thought, including the
demise of fatalistic assumptions with respect to peoples capacity to shape
their futures and to organize independently. It was also characterized by

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Table 3: Illustrative table of selected INGOs founded 17601855

Category
Illustrative INGO, with year of foundation
Anti-Slavery
Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully

held in Bondage, 1775
International Association of Artists, 1849
Collins-Cunard, 1850
Universal Office of Navigation & Commerce, 1843
League of the Outlaws, 1834
British and Foreign Philanthropic Society for the
Permanent Relief of the Labouring Classes, 1822
Society of Universal Instruction, 1833
Society of the Union of Nations, 1834
African Association, 1788
Society of Universal Good-will, 1775
West India Committee, 1775
Aborigines Protection Society, 1837
International Shipwreck Society, 1835
Agence Havas, 1834
Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 1784
International Association, 1834
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline,
1817
Universal Confederation of the Friends of Truth,
1790
Young Europe, 1834
International Association for Obtaining a Uniform
Decimal System of Measures, Weights & Coins,
1855
Royal Jennerian Society, 1803
Society for Promoting Female Education in the
East, 1834
Art
Cartel
Communication
Communism
Co-operation
Education
Encyclopedic
Exploration
Foreigners friends
Imperial trading
Indigenous rights
Lifesaving
News agency
Orientalism
Peace
Prison reform
Republicanism
Self-determination
Standardization
Vaccination
Womens emancipation
significant social transformation, including urbanization and the emergence in industrializing countries of a refashioned class system centred
around the bourgeoisproletarian divide. At the same time, the development of nationalism was to take place in a symbiotic relationship with
internationalism, as the subsequent discussion will illustrate.
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Amongst the most neglected but also most influential processes taking place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was the
expanding interchange of ideas between East and West. This was to play
a vital role in the development of novel INGOs in the Atlantic world in
this period, especially in the origins of secular humanitarian organizations on a transnational basis. An example is provided in the far-reaching network of lifesaving or humane societies that developed at this time.
The first of these to be established in the Atlantic world was the Society
for the Recovery of the Drowned, formed in Amsterdam in 1767.26 This
organization promoted life-saving resuscitation techniques originating
in China in the Middle Ages but which by the mid eighteenth century
were being taught at the University of Leiden.27 The first humane societies in China, in contrast, may date to the 1300s.28 The oldest for which
records exist is the Chinkiang Association for the Saving of Life, which
was reputedly established in 1708 by a committee of benefactors, whose
names have been handed down to posterity in a laudatory tablet which
is still to be seen at Tantu.29 By the 1790s lifesaving societies had been
established in London, Lisbon, Vienna, Copenhagen and Algiers, as well
as many locations in British Imperial territories and the United States.
In addition to forming a transnational network, many of these organizations included honorary members in foreign countries, and many
extended their assistance to people of any nationality.30
Exchange of ideas between East and West was also significant in the
development of the revolutionary associationalism that evolved on a
transnational basis in the late eighteenth century. Amongst the literature
of the French Revolution was a Republican Koran, written by JosephAlexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau,31 and the perceived example of
Turkeywhere it was thought by some at the time that the moment
that the tyrant begins to lay a heavy hand upon the many, the Mussulmans
run instantly to armsappears to have motivated European revolutionaries.32 The transnational and transatlantic dimensions of the American,
French and Haitian revolutions were considerable, and included the activities of transnational revolutionaries such as Tom Paine and Claude
Fournier, as well as of transnational associations and networks including
freemasonry.33 A particularly significant revolutionary association was
the Paris-based Universal Confederation of the Friends of Truth, or
Cercle Social, which claimed to be a cosmo-political organization with
affiliates in Dublin, Geneva, Genoa, Hamburg, London, Philadelphia

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and Utrecht.34 In 1791 the Cercle established an offshoot composed

entirely of women: the Society of Women Friends of Truth led by a
Dutchwoman, Etta Palm dAelders.35
Other revolutionary associations describing themselves as universal
at this time included the Society of Universal Revolution and the Society of Friends of Universal Peace and the Rights of Man in Britain.36
The Universal Society of the Friends of the People that appeared in London in 1792 appealed to citizens, soldiers and sailors of all nations
you are united to civil society by the bonds of nature we invite you,
therefore, to participate in the glorious cause of freedom.37 At the same
time, plans for a highly idealistic Universal Society or Society for the
Purposes of completing public Welfare, private Happiness, and universal Peace were laid that was to connect itself with all free countries
for the purpose of promoting effectually and extending its different laudable views through the world.38 Universalistic goals were important in
early humanitarian associations too: for instance, by the 1780s the Society
of Universal Good-Will which originated in 1775 as an association to
relieve any poor Scotsman who might come to Norwich in distress aimed
to assist every fellow-creature in distress, who is not provided for by law,
any government or other charity, goals it continued to promote in Britain
and abroad in revamped form as the Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress over the next two centuries.39
Beyond humane and revolutionary societies, a third major form of
transnational association to develop in the late eighteenth century was
the anti-slavery society. The religious impulse played a significant role
in its development. The first anti-slavery society, formed in Philadelphia
in 1775, was the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held
in Bondage, the constitution of which stated that setting the oppressed
free is evidently a duty incumbent on all professors of Christianity and
permitted election of foreigners or persons who [do] not reside in this
state as corresponding members, as had earlier missionary organizations such as SPCK.40 It consisted of mostly, perhaps all of them, Friends
or Quakers.41 The Quaker influence was also evident in the names of
later anti-slavery societies, such as the Society of Friends of Blacks established in France in 1788. The creation of that organization was stimulated by Britains Society instituted in 1787, for the purpose of effecting
the abolition of the slave trade, an objective achieved in the British context in 1807.42
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By the end of the eighteenth century, associational activities in Europe

extended far beyond the traditional religious orders, charities, missionaries, fraternities and networks of merchants, performers and scholars of the
past. By then, for instance, European imperial trading interests had formed
associations to promote their common goals, such as the West India Committee (which survives in the twenty-first century).43 The late eighteenth
century also witnessed the formation of early organizations by Europeans dedicated to the study of extra-European cultures, such as the Asiatic
Society (created in 1784), which played a critical role in the formation of
numerous South Asian scientific organizations and continues to function
in Kolkata today.44 Missionaries were also often accompanied by explorers from organizations such as the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (African Association), formed in
London in 1788.45 The early history of transnational environmental concern may also be traced to eighteenth-century networks.46
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In the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the diversification of

INGOs and transnational civil society expanded further. In the area of
health, this period saw the formation of the Royal Jennerian Society for
the Extermination of the Small-Pox, instituted in 1803. Although this
organization concentrated its vaccination efforts in London, from the
outset its organizers hoped that the Small-pox may be speedily exterminated from this kingdom, and ultimately from the whole earth.47 In
1806 Dr Lettsom claimed of this organization that by its efforts not only
these kingdoms, but nearly all parts of the world, have been supplied with
this salutiferous dew of heaven, the good effects of which will, I hope, be
related by some person more competent to its history.48 A revived version of this organization boasted in 1817 of its widespread honorary
members, including the Emperors of all the Russias and Austria, the
Kings of Bavaria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia,
Sardinia, Saxony, Spain, the Two Sicilies, Sweden and Wirtemburgh, the
Ottoman Sultan, the Presidents of Switzerland and the United States,
the Pope, the Mughal Emperor of India, the Pacha of Baghdad, and the
Council of the Five Nations of the Indians of North America.49 The
report of that year revealed both the extent and the limits of its cosmopolitanism in its claim that the life preserving cause of vaccination is
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Mussulmans,
with all their prejudices, and the Heathens with all their
superstitious antipathies, learn to appreciate and adopt the practice which
saves them from sufferings and death.50 While the Royal Jennerian
Society showed success in gaining impressive protectors around the
world, another early-nineteenth-century humanitarian organization, the
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline that was formed in
London in 1817, is notable for its success in securing the formation of
auxiliary societies abroad, including in France and Russia by 1820.51
The Congress of Vienna provided an early opportunity for non-governmental associations to petition an intergovernmental meeting,
although it should be noted that individuals had petitioned intergov
ernmental meetings since at least the Congress of Breda in 1667, and
Quakers lobbied the Congress of Nijmegen in 1678.52 At the Congress
of Vienna, representatives of German Jewish communities requested recognition of Jewish minority rights in German states and representatives
of German booksellers asked for press freedom and literary property to
be recognized, and these were taken into account in the federal constitution that was drafted for Germany.53 Within Britain, anti-slavery campaigners gathered almost 1 million signatures to 800 petitions for the
abolition of the slave trade to be among Britains demands at the
Congress.54 The British delegation responded, but the outcome was a
somewhat vague Declaration of the Powers on the Abolition of the Slave
Trade that noted that the public voice, in all civilized countries, calls
aloud for its prompt suppression.55
The year 1815 is also notable for the formation of the first peace societies. Opposition to war amongst those of Christian faith may be traced
back to the early Church and re-emerged in Europe in a series of sects
from the Waldenses in 1170 onwards, including the Swiss Brethren from
the 1520s and the Quakers from 1661.56 It was not until 7 June 1814,
however, that the earliest known meeting to create a modern peace society took place in London.57 Before a society could be formally established in Britain, the first three peace societies were founded in the United
States: in New York in August 1815, and Ohio and Massachusetts in
December 1815.58 The following year, the Society for Abolishing War
and the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace
were formed in London.59 The founders of the first peace societies were
members of religious groups such as Quakers and Unitarians, and the
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atively secure position of the United States and Britain, their comparatively liberal political cultures, and by the general decline of fatalism in
Europe that had taken place in the eighteenth century.60
The period following the Congress of Vienna, given the reestablishment of conservative regimes across Europe, was one in which novel
INGO formation was constrained. There were exceptions, however. Two
pioneering internationalists in France and Britain, Marc-Antoine Jullien
de Paris and Robert Owen respectively, experimented in creating their
own international organizations. Since 1801 Jullien had put forward an
idea for a Socit Encyclopdique that was intended to centralize knowledge from all fields.61 After the Napoleonic Wars, this dream became
partially realized with the formation of a Revue Encyclopdique and its
accompanying Socit, building on Aubin-Louis Millins Magasin Encyclopdique and Annales Encyclopdiques of 17951818.62 The Revue
appeared from 1819 and was intended to become a means of open correspondence between the learned of all countries,63 and the monthly
dinners of the Socit that took place from 1818 united successively at
the same table not only the editors and collaborators of the Revue and
their numerous correspondents but also distinguished men of all nations.64
After the collapse of the Revue following the July revolution, Jullien
revived the Socit as the Socit de lUnion des Nations, whose sole
and noble objects were to excite that holy spirit of emulation which
tended to make man kind and sociable to manto eradicate national
prejudicesand, by the frequent collision of intellect, to promote peace
and good-will throughout the earth, by unitedly and mutually advancing the progress of civilization and improvement.65 Robert Owen, for
his part, formed in 1822 a British and Foreign Philanthropic Society for
the Permanent Relief of the Labouring Classes by means of education,
employment, exchange of productions, &c., in communities of 500 to
2000 individuals, which attracted the affiliation of London-based ambassadors of numerous European countries, as well as prominent British
philanthropists, but which achieved little else.66 In the 1830s, Owen went
on to create a highly ambitious Association of All Classes of All Nations
which aimed to effect, peaceably, and by reason alone, an entire change
in the character and condition of mankind, by establishing over the world,
in principle and practice, the religion of charity for the convictions, feelings, and conduct of all individuals, without distinction of sex, class, sect,
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natural system of united property; which united property is to be created

by the members of the association, without infringing upon the rights of
any private property now in existence.67 This association attracted a membership in Australia, Britain, France and the United States, and its success in distributing hundreds of thousands of publications led to it its
activities being discussed in the British Parliament on account of becoming the creed of a great portion of the working classes.68
The 1830s were the break-out decade for novel INGOs. The political
context was shaped by the upheavals of the first year of the decade:
Belgian seccession, Greek independence, the Polish uprising and the July
revolution in France. These events have been described as the point at
which constitutional theories, nationalist sentiments, democratic credos,
and economic doctrines came vigorously into play and at which political parties, classes, and social groups, far removed from earlier conceptions of nobles, guildsmen and peasants, had emerged as actors in this
new world of national passions.69 Many of the new associations of the
1830s were to endeavour to organize on a transnational basis.
The new associations of the 1830s include what may have been the
first organization to describe itself as international: the International
Association, a small peace association based in Scotland in the early
1830s. This hitherto neglected organization was reported to have had the
popular motto all mankind are brothers,70 and described itself as being:
Of those who desire to find just grounds for mutual esteem and respect,
who cherish peace,and will act upon the grand principle of collecting
and disseminating such information as tends to meliorate the individual
and social condition of their fellow creatures.71
Other novel INGOs of the 1830s include the Socit dEnseignement
Universel established in Paris in 1833, which aimed to unite the followers of the Jacotot method of intellectual emancipation, who by this time
claimed to be based not only in Paris, in France, in Europe, but in the
four corners of the world.72 The following year, Italian patriot Giuseppe
Mazzini created Young Europe, an organization that was intended to be
a federation of autonomous national societies, its founders including
representatives of Young Germany, Young Italy and Young Poland.73 The
aims of organizations such as Young Europe reveal how closely related
the development of internationalism was with that of nationalism.74 The
seventeenth general principle of the Pact of Fraternity that established
Young Europe, for instance, claimed that Every people has its special
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mission, which will co-operate towards the fulfilment of the general mission of humanity. That mission constitutes its nationality.75 Young Europe
was followed by other internationalistnationalist organizations such as
the Peoples International League, established in London in April 1847
to disseminate the principles of national freedom and progress; to
embody and manifest an efficient public opinion in favour of the right
of every people to self-government and the maintenance of their own
nationality; [and] to promote a good understanding between the peoples of every country.76
At the same time, and closely related, the early international Communist movement developed amongst groups of German exiles in Paris and
later London. Formed in 1834, the League of the Outlaws may have
been the first international revolutionary Communist organization, with
a largely artisanal membership based in Frankfurt and Paris.77 It lasted
four years and seems to have been influenced by the charcoal burning
secret societies that operated in Europe in the early decades of the nineteenth century, such as Buonarrotis Universal Democratic Charbonnerie
that aimed to unite all the friends of equality, whatever their country and
religion are, by a common centre.78 The League of the Outlaws was succeeded by the better-known League of the Just, which split from the
League of the Outlaws in 1836;79 and subsequently by the Communist
League created in London in 1847, which expressed more explicitly the
aim of the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the proletariat, the
abolition of the old bourgeois society which rests on the antagonism of
classes, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without
private property, and was more clearly international in that reference to
membership of the League as being made up of Germans was annulled.80
The Communist League was preceded by the Communist Propaganda
Society (later the Universal Communitarian Association) formed in London in 1841 by John Goodwyn Barmby, who claimed to have brought
the term communism to England from France after a visit in 1840 to
establish links between socialists in the two countries.81 Barmby is also
credited with the first outline of an international communist organisation in his proposed International Association for the promotion of
mutual intercourse among all Nations of 1840, for which a provisional
committee was created in Paris.82 An International Association linking
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Amongst the most intriguing novel INGOs of the 1830s was the
Socit Gnrale des Naufrages et de lUnion des Nations created in
1835 in Paris by Caliste-Auguste Godde de Liancourt, which by the
1840s was being referred to as the Socit Internationale des Naufrages
(International Shipwreck Society).84 According to its statutes, this organization was set up with a view to uniting the benevolent of all countries, embraced every species of means for the saving of lives in the case
of shipwreck or inundations, and whatever concerns the commerce, industry, and science of nations, and aimed to be composed of an indefinite
number of members of all nations.85 It appears to have been set up under
the patronage of the French King and Queen, the Queen Regent of
Spain, the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves and the Duchess of Kent,
and was reported to have managed to attract to its membership a great
number of admirals, ambassadors and ministers, and princes of all nations,
including Turkey, Spain and even China.86 Amongst its intended methods were the setting up of affiliated establishments in major ports, the
award of prizes to those who by their actions had contributed to the saving of the shipwrecked, the facilitation of correspondence among societies for the shipwrecked worldwide, and the publication of a journal
(which in the 1840s was entitled LInternationale) that aimed to cover
not only its actions in respect of shipwreck, but also literature, the arts
and sciences, commerce and industry.87 It was claimed that the Socit
Internationale des Naufrages helped to establish over 150 humanitarian
organizations in Africa, America, Asia and Europe, from the United
States to China, Norway to Zanzibar.88 However, it was to decline precipitously following corruption allegations involving its secretary general Godde in the early 1840s.89
The 1830s came to a close with the establishment in 1839 of the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS), which unlike earlier antislavery societies based in London looked explicitly beyond Britain and
its empire: English Quaker Joseph Sturge called the meeting that planned
the BFASS on 27 February 1839 with the objective of promoting the
abolition of the slave trade throughout the world by moral and religious
influence and such means only as will not directly or indirectly sanction
the employment of an armed force for its prevention or suppression.90
BFASS was established in large part due to a realization that success in
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sonable prospect for the annihilation of the slave trade.91 Despite its
small and largely British membership, the BFASSs international activities were ambitious from the outset: in 1840, for instance, these included
lobbying several governments, including interviewing the King of France
and deputations in Spain and Portugal, exchange visits with US activists, exposure of slave-owning companies, and the circulation of 8,000
pamphlets in Brazil.92 The Society noted that the following year the
Quintuple Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was signed by
Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia.93
Possibly the most notable activity of the BFASS in 1840 was its organization of the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in June of
that year. Around 409 campaigners may have attended, including visitors from the United States, France and British colonies.94 At the opening session, Daniel OConnell declared the meeting to be more important
than any which has yet assembled on the face of the globe.95 The meeting is of note not only for bringing together the anti-slavery movement,
but moreover for its influence upon other movements, especially in stimulating the holding of international conventions in numerous issue-areas
of civil society interest during the subsequent decade.96 Whereas prior
to 1840 international conferences tended to consist primarily of Church
councils and post-war intergovernmental peace congresses, the international non-governmental conventions of the 1840s are significant in providing the framework around which new INGOs could later be established
on a lasting basis.97
Early suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton dated the origins of
the womens suffrage movement to the 1840 General Anti-Slavery
Convention, as the exclusion of women at this conference stimulated the
subsequent convening of the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 that effectively launched the womens suffrage movement in the USA.98 Stanton
recorded that when confronted with being denied the right to speak at
the general anti-slavery convention, she and Lucretia Mott agreed to
hold a womans rights convention on their return to America, as the men
to whom they had just listened had manifested their great need of some
education on that question.99 It should also be noted that womens antislavery organizations were amongst the most active in Britain and the
United States in the early nineteenth century;100 and that the earliest
womens peace societies may date to the development by mid century of
Elihu Burritts Olive Leaf Circles.101

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Timed to take place just after the second General Anti-Slavery Convention, the first General Peace Convention was held in London in June
1843 and attended by 334 delegates, including twenty-six from the United
States and six from continental Europe.102 It was followed in August
1846 by the Worlds Temperance Convention, also held in London and
featuring delegates from the United States and France as well as Britain
and its empire.103 It was proposed that both of these Congresses should
be followed by the formation of an international organization, but these
plans came to little.104 The 1846 Conference of the Evangelical Alliance,
however, led to the formation of a lasting body that was intended to consist of those persons, in all parts of the World, who shall concur in the
Principles and Objects adopted by the Conference.105
With a view to further developing in continental Europe movements
already popular in Britain such as for free trade and prison reform, the
international congress movement spread to the continent in 18467,
starting with the holding of the Frankfurt Penitentiary Congress in
September 1846.106 Another penitentiary congress was held in Brussels
the following year, two days after the city had hosted the International
Congress of Economists, organized by the movement for free trade that
nine years later formed the International Association for Customs
Reform.107 The 1847 penitentiary congress is notable for resulting in the
formation in Paris of a Socit Internationale de Charit to bring together
those in different countries who concern themselves with the plight of
the impoverished and working classes, but its activities were cut short
by the revolutionary activities of 1848.108
1848 had an impact similar to that of 1830: it has been argued that in
1848 the concept of association became a general solution to the political crises of the time and innumerable new, openly political clubs and
associations appeared on the revolutionary stage in Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
and Milan.109 Amongst the impressive array of organizations active in
1848 was the Socit Universelle, which described itself as a vast commercial, industrial and agricultural association with a membership of
100,000.110 Although the revolutions failed to realize many of the aspirations of democrats and liberals, this was a critical moment for the development of alliances on a transnational basis among socialist and feminist
groups.111 For the peace movement, 1848 saw the first of a series of
Universal Peace Congresses take place.112 It was also a turning-point in
the development of pan-movementsor macro-nationalismswith
the convening of the first pan-Slav congress in Prague.113
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Beyond the events of 1848, another key factor stimulating the development of INGOs from the 1850s onwards was the convening by governments of Worlds Fairs, commencing with the Great Exhibition in
London of 1851. Inspired by the Great Exhibition, for example, a Socit
Universelle des Sciences, des Lettres, des Beaux-Arts, de lIndustrie et du
Commerce was set up in Paris that year to create a means of union among
everyone, to realise a holy alliance among peoples through the establishment of ongoing relations between intellectual and industrial leaders.114
The most success to be had in the formation of INGOs in the 1850s
was achieved during the Paris universal exhibition in 1855. A number
of international congresses were timed to coincide with this exhibition,
such as an international congress on charity that motivated the subsequent congresses on Bienfaisance that took place in Brussels in 1856
and Frankfurt in 1857, the latter resulting in an effort to create a successor to the Socit Internationale de Charit in the form of an Association Internationale de Bienfaisance.115 Official congresses of statisticians and of jurymen and commissioners of the exhibition both passed
resolutions promoting a uniform system of weights, measures and money
during the exhibition, and at a subsequent private congress an International Association for Obtaining a Uniform Decimal System of Measures,
Weights and Coins was formed with British, French and American
branches.116 The universal exhibition in Paris in 1855 also stimulated the
creation in the following year of the Socit Internationale des tudes
Pratiques dconomie Sociale to study the well-being of manual workers in all countries.117
Particularly significant is the formation in Paris in 1855 of an international federation by the Young Mens Christian Associations, which
had developed internationally since the formation in London in 1844 of
a society for the improving of the spiritual condition of young men
engaged in the drapery and other trades.118 The creation of the World
Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations (WYMCA) in 1855
was of crucial importance in the history of INGOs, as it may have been
the first significant and lasting effort to form an international federation
of national associations.119 Whereas many INGOs of earlier foundation
had begun as national organizations that later expanded internationally,
or as small clusters of refugees based in a single city, the WYMCA consisted of widely geographically dispersed member non-governmental
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which the WYMCA was established was timed to coincide with the
Worlds Exhibition in Paris, and brought together representatives of
YMCAs from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Holland,
Scotland, Switzerland and the United States. Swiss humanitarian Henri
Dunant, who was later the leading figure in the establishment of the Red
Cross movement, was central to the organization of the foundational
conference of the WYMCA.120 The conference participants motivations
for the formation of an international organization were highly varied,
and included the need to overcome divisions amongst the national associations, to agree on common principles, to enable correspondence and
travel, and to transfer to the international level the already demonstrated
benefits of uniting local YMCAs in national bodies.121
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As the foregoing discussion has shown, the period between the 1760s
and the 1850s was a crucial turning point in the development of INGOs.
Prior to this period, INGOs had consisted overwhelmingly of religious
organizations, as well as a few other bodies such as fraternal and scientific societies. In the era that approximately parallels the first Industrial
Revolution, by contrast, INGOs developed in a much wider range of sectors of activity, with greater specialism of focus and often with a diminished role of religion and secrecy. The INGOs of 17671855, many of
which proved to be short-lived, mark a point of transition from the earlier ancient forms of INGO and the better-known and commonly more
enduring INGO structures of the late nineteenth century onwards.
Some of the novel INGOs of the 1760s-1850s, such as the first International Association of 1834, were international only in terms of their
concern for cross-border issues, rather than in respect of their composition. Others were international preponderantly in the sense of consisting of groups of people of multiple nationalities either in single cities, or
a few citiessuch as the League of the Just. Some were nationally-based
but at the centre of large intercontinental networks of societies, such as
the International Shipwreck Society. Others, such as the Society for the
Improvement of Prison Discipline, had auxiliary societies in multiple
countries, following the model of earlier missionary groups. Some, such
as the Royal Jennerian Society, had impressive lists of honorary members from around the world on account of their work in multiple countries and continents. Many of them lasted only a few years, but some
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were to offer precedents for the more enduring INGOs of the later nineteenth century: Young Europe, for instance, had a pioneering federal
structure later taken forward on a more permanent basis by the WYMCA
and other INGOs of the later nineteenth century. While most of the
novel INGOs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were
to disappear after a few years, a few survive (often in highly diminished
form) to the present day, such as the Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress, and the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.
Whereas few of the new INGOs of the 1760s-1850s were to be enduring and geographically widespread, the 1860s witnessed the creation of
a significant number of INGOs that did enduresome in terms of continued existence, some in terms of legacy, and some in both senses. The
decade began with the creation of one of the oldest Jewish international
organizations, the Alliance Isralite Universelle.122 Formed in the context of incidents such as the Mortara case, the Parisian founders of this
body in 1860 hoped that it would work everywhere for the emancipation and moral progress of Jews and provide effective support to Jews
facing persecution.123 Its activities to this day have included both lobbying and educational work, and it has stimulated the creation of analogous bodies in other countries.124
The year after the formation of the Alliance Isralite Universelle, Paris
was also the venue for the creation of one of the earliest scientific INGOs
in a specialist field: the Socit Universelle dOphtalmologie, the precursor to todays International Council of Ophthalmology.125 The Socit
Universelle dOphtalmologie followed the convening in Brussels in 1857
of the first international ophthalmological congress that aimed to serve
as a means of uniting the opthalmologists of all countries in a more
direct, more effective, more close, more lively fashion than had been
achieved by the Annales dOculistique.126 The year after the ophthalmologists formed their association, there was established in Brussels the
short-lived International Association for the Progress of the Social
Sciences.127 This organizations goals included not only to develop the
study of social science, but also to ameliorate the physical and moral
condition of the working classes.128
A humanitarian organization of far greater significance was to be established the following year: the International Red Cross. Central to its formation was Henri Dunant, who had already played a vital role in the
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the wounded in the Battle of Solferino of 1859, Dunant pioneered the

idea of uniting these workers in a permanent organization and an international treaty with respect to the war-wounded.130 The beginning of the
Red Cross may be dated to the formation in February 1863 by the Geneva
Society of Public Utility of the International Committee for Aid to the
Wounded in Situations of War that consisted of five citizens of Geneva.131
A mixed conference of governmental and non-governmental representatives in October of that year agreed that each country shall have a
Committee whose duty it shall be, in time of war and if the need arises,
to assist the Army Medical Services by every means in its power.132 By
the following year, the first Geneva Convention was signed and the first
national societies formed in Belgium, Spain, France and Italy, as well as
in many parts of what later became Germany. The close relationship
between the Red Cross movement and governments may be one of the
principal reasons for its unusual success in spreading globally: by the end
of the decade societies existed not only in western and central Europe,
but also Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The first East Asian and South
American societies were created in the following decade in Japan and
Peru respectively.133
The month after the signing of the first Geneva Convention, one of
the most notable developments in the international labour movement
took place in London. At a meeting in St Martins Hall on 28 September 1864 the International Working Mens Association was formed
the so-called First International which aimed at the protection,
advancement and complete emancipation, economical and political, of
the Working Classes.134 At the inaugural meeting it was argued that the
emancipation of labour is neither a local, nor a national, but a social problem, embracing all countries in which modern society exists and the new
organization was thought to be needed because all efforts aiming at the
great end hitherto failed from the want of solidarity between the manifold divisions of labour in each country, and from the absence of a fraternal bond of union between the working classes of different countries.135
Its transnational development was rapid, with the proliferation of sections in Europe and the USA and proclamations of adherence of hundreds of thousands during the strikes of 1868 and 1870 and the 1871
Paris Commune. Its existence was short-lived, however, since it is claimed
that it bore within itself the seeds of its dissolution: diversity aggravated
by the adoption of a centralist strategy.136 The divisions between Marx
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and Bakunin were particularly important in the First Internationals

inability to survive long past the Paris Communes suppression.137
In the same year as the International Working Mens Association was
formed in Europe, the trade unions in the United States began to nationalize in response to the industrial depression.138 Given that some of them
had members in Canada as well as the United States, several North American trade unions labelled themselves international during the 1860s,
such as the Iron Molders International Union, the Journeymen Cigar
Makers International Union and the International Typographical Union.
These preceded the formation of the better-known international trade
secretariats (now known as global union federations) in Europe in the
following decades.
The early 1860s are also a period when the anti-slavery movement
appears to have had one of its most notable successes. The boomerang
pattern of a transnational advocacy network139 may have been in evidence, with anti-slavery activism in Britain being among the factors that
inhibited British recognition of and aid to the Confederacy, which was
influential in the US Civil Wars outcome.140 British abolitionists flooded
Parliament with petitions and appear to have contributed towards the
withdrawal of House of Commons motions for recognition of the
Confederacy, although it should be noted that the British government
may already have been inclined towards this course of action.141 Furthermore, many anti-slavery activists in Britain refused to countenance warfare as a means for emancipation.142
In continental Europe, the year 1867 saw the international peace movement revitalized. In May of that year, the Ligue Internationale et
Permanente de la Paix was formed by Frdric Passy in France, an organization that was predominantly French and which in 1872 became the
Socit Franaise des Amis de la Paix.143 Another Ligue of francophone
origin was created in September 1867 in Geneva by Charles Lemonnier:
the Ligue Internationale de la Paix et de la Libert (LIPL), which is
notable for being the first organization to put forward democratization
as a mechanism for securing international peace, an idea now known as
democratic peace theory.144 That national self-determination was also
viewed by participants in this organization as a solution of international
conflict is reflected in the appointment as the honorary president of its
founding congress of Italian nationalist Garibaldi, who used the occasion to proclaim war to advance this cause, thus rendering LIPLs claim
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The year following LIPLs formation, Marie Goegg founded the shortlived Association Internationale des Femmes in order to support the
work of LIPL.146 The Association also aimed to bring an end to the complaints that are made from all directions about the ignorance of women,147
and some consider the Association to be the first international womens
organization.148 At the Associations 1870 congress in Berne, Goegg promoted womens suffrage; and the organization may have been the earliest INGO to draw international attention to the equal pay issue.149
The 1860s came to a close with the formation of one of the oldest
international business associations: the International Hotelmens Association, now known as the International Hoteliers Alliance, formed in
Koblenz on 11 June 1869 on the initiative of Cologne hotel-owner Otto
Caracciola.150 Further afield, the completion of the Suez Canal in that
year formed the context of an international commercial congress held in
Cairo, which passed resolutions not only concerning the canal (such as
that periodical reports be furnished by the Egyptian government to the
different chambers of commerce) but also on more general matters (such
as that a uniform monetary system be established in Egypt, and also
in Europe).151 This was the first in a series of international commercial
congresses that was to lead eventually to the formation of the International Chamber of Commerce.152
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By the end of the 1860s, the transition from ancient to modern INGOs
that had begun in the late eighteenth century had been completed. Nongovernmental organizations that claimed to be international had become
not only more diversified and specialized than earlier INGOs, but had
also improved their capacity to organize on an enduring basis in multiple countries. INGOs also increasingly reflected class divisions, with a
growing divide between workers and bourgeois organizations. Furthermore, the potential for further expansion and diversification of INGOs
was evident in the range of private international congresses held in the
1860s that dealt with issues extending beyond those promoted by the
INGOs already in existence. These included the first international congress of societies for the protection of animals held in Dresden in 1860,153
a universal artistic congress in 1861,154 the first international congress
of students in 1865,155 and the first international medical congress in
1867,156 as well as regular congresses on veterinary medicine, botany,
pharmacy, astronomy, and archaeology and anthropology.157
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Most of the developments considered so far in the period from the

late eighteenth century until 1869 were located primarily in Europe and
North America, although, as has been shown, interactions between East
and West had been critical in sparking them. This period also saw continued expansion in the number of Christian missionary organizations
that concerned themselves with other regions, as well as of Western organizations dedicated to the study of Asia, such as the Socit Asiatique
established in France in 1822, which was followed by similar societies in
Britain, the US and Germany.158 They were accompanied by an expanding number of geographical societies, such as the Socit de Gographie
formed in Paris in 1821 and the Royal Geographical Society formed in
London in 1830, which absorbed the African Association in 1831.159
Further developments in respect of European interest in the wider
world included the British establishment in 1834 of a Society for
Promoting Female Education in the East, which was set up in part in
response to concern about perceived degradation of the female sex in
many parts of the East and the impression that in the East women were
denied the first rudiments of learning and generally regarded as an inferior order of beings.160 This organization, which promoted Christian
education, distinguished itself from the missionary societies that were
already setting up schools in Asia through its formation of an organization of women whose whole time was to be dedicated to the establishment of schools for girls in Asia.161 Three years later, the Aborigines
Protection Society was formed in London to oppose the exploitation of
indigenous peoples in British colonies; it collaborated with BFASS until
the two merged in 1909.162 In 1866, Dunant put forward a plan for a
Universal and International Society for the Revival of the Orient, which
he hoped would lead to the resurrection of the Hebrew people as a territorial nationality, to the liberation [sic] of the Holy Land from Islam
and to the restoration of the Holy Places.163 The same year saw the formation in London of the East India Association: founded by the first
South Asian British MP, Dadabhai Naoroji, and consisting of Indians
as well as Englishmen,164 its stated goals included independent and disinterested advocacy and promotion by all legitimate means of the interests and welfare of India generally.165
The role of merchants, educators, secret societies and diasporas in transmitting nationalist ideas between western Europe, the Habsburg empire
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notable.166 In this period a number of Arabs who had studied Enlightenment thinkers in Europe promoted secularism as a path towards Arab
revival.167 There further developed more than twenty Islamic revivalist
movements advocating a return to fundamental principles, some of which
became the basis for resistance movements against European colonialism, and all of which were Sufi in origin except Arabias Wahhabis.168 In
Persia, meanwhile, the Bahai faith developed from a Shii-Islamic movement formed in 1844.169 From his time in Adrianople in the 1860s
onwards, the faiths founder Bahaullah wrote to the religious and political leaders of the world summoning them to heed [his] call, cast away
the things they possessed, and fear and follow God.170
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The transformation of transnational civil societythe transition from

ancient to modern INGOsthat took place from the 1760s to the 1860s
had been made possible by a vast array of factors. Commentators at the
time felt that the world was going through spectacular changes. One
author writing in the Revue Encyclopdique in 1827, for instance, stated:
The world for us today is rich in great spectacles. Since all communications have become so easy among men; since the dangers, distances, and
difficulties of travel have almost disappeared; since trade is speedily connecting all climates, all industries and all the worlds products; since the
written thought circulates with ever greater speed, since books spread to
all parts of the world, and since all in return send us their journals, our
interest focuses on the entire human race for each generation the horizon of man has been extended, comprising successively his province, his
country, his neighbours, Europe, and today the world.171
Technological developments of the period, such as electrical telegraphy and the steamship, were often referred to by the organizers of the
international congresses of the early and mid nineteenth century. At the
Worlds Temperance Convention in London in 1846, for instance, it was
remarked that Nations are now brought near and the great empires of
the earth by the printing press and the steam engine are brought into
closer communication for all practical purposes than the different provinces of this little island in the days of the Saxon heptarchy.172 The economic interdependence of the world was also noted, especially in the
emerging international workers movement: the Communist Manifesto
of 18478, for instance, argued that in place of the old local and national
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seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.173
Social changes such as expanding literacy were crucial to the development of transnational civil society in this period. Urbanization played a
key role, with cosmopolitan cities such as London and Paris providing
the infrastructure for early international non-governmental conferences
and organizations. It has also been shown that developing class divisions
ensured increasing diversification of international civil society groups
along class lines. In addition, the development of what Iriye has subsequently termed global consciousness was important, reflected in popular mottos such as that all mankind are brothers, adopted by the first
International Association and many other organizations. Vital to the
development of transnational civil society from the eighteenth century
onwards had been the ideas associated with the Enlightenment, and the
accompanying decline of fatalistic assumptions about the possibility of
reform of international relations evident in works such as the proposals
for perpetual peace put forward by Charles-Irne Castel de Saint-Pierre,
Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham.174
Amongst the most crucial factors underpinning the development of
transnational civil society from 1767 to 1869 were political developments.
These included the political impacts of the Enlightenment in, for example, expanding the scope for associations to operate openly rather than
in secret. The Congress of Vienna was an early opportunity for transnationally coordinated lobbying. Governments also organized international
congresses on specialist subjects such as agriculture, in which members
of private associations took part. In addition, the hosting of worlds fairs
from the mid nineteenth century onwards provided the setting in which
many early INGOs, such as the Worlds Alliance of YMCAs, were
founded, and governments encouraged the holding of international congresses in the host cities of worlds fairs.175 More broadly, the relative stability of the international system in the period of the Concert of Europe
facilitated enduring private international contacts. As is evident in the
formation of the BFASS, the international nature of political issues of
the period was also central to motivating the creation of INGOs. Imperialism facilitated the opening of new parts of the world to civil society
actors, such as missionary groups.
The close relationship between nationalism and the development of
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Europe. Furthermore, the growth of national associations provided building-blocks for the formation of international federations of national associations. More generally, the consolidation of the nation-state provided
the rule of law and stability that facilitated the development of both
national and international associational activity. The existence of neutral
countries such as Belgium and Switzerland also provided a conducive
setting for the holding of international congresses and the hosting of
INGO secretariats.
The example set by existing organizations and movements was a further dimension facilitating the expansion of transnational civil society in
this period. Members of organizations of earlier origins were to play a
key role in the creation of new INGOs from the late eighteenth century,
such as Quakers in the formation of anti-slavery and peace societies and
freemasons in the establishment of republican groups. The missionary
society model of auxiliary society formation was adopted by later secular associations. The example set by existing organizations is also evident
in the formation of a series of organizations describing themselves as
British and Foreign in the early nineteenth century, the diffusion of peace
societies to continental Europe that looked to the Anglo-Saxon model,
and the chain of international organizations leading to the creation of
the International Working Mens Association in 1864.176 The role of individual pioneers was also vital, such as Sturge in respect of the anti-slavery and peace movements, Mazzini and Marx in the case of democratic
and Communist organizations, and Dunant in the case of the YMCAs
and Red Cross.
Consolidation of the First Wave, 18701900

Although the transition from ancient to modern INGOs had already
taken place, the last three decades of the nineteenth century were to witness unprecedented expansion in transnational civil society activities. The
number of INGOs established in the last three decades of the nineteenth
century may have exceeded the number founded in every preceding
decade combined.177 The documentary record on INGOs from the 1870s
onwards is also richer,178 and in the period from 1870 until 1900 the variety of INGOs and non-governmental meetings further diversified, and
INGOs were to be founded increasingly on an enduring basis.179 The following will explore the creation of new INGOs in numerous issue-areas,
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exploring in turn standardization, industrial and intellectual property,

map-creation, bibliography, international languages, scientific collaboration, environmental conservation, medicine, social welfare, socialism, syndicalism, cooperation, business, education, the professions, transportation,
sport, imperialism, pan-nationalism, inter-faith dialogue, temperance,
womens enfranchisement, sex trafficking and peace. It will also be shown
how INGOs managed to influence both national policy (such as the
granting of womens right to vote in New Zealand) and international
policy (such as international conventions in respect of intellectual property and sex trafficking). The period culminated with transnational mobilization on an unprecedented scale at the Hague Conference of 1899,
where it will be shown that novel techniques of transnational lobbying
were pioneered.
The rapid development of transnational civil society in the three
decades from 1870 took place in the context of the second Industrial
Revolution, and landmarks such as the development of ocean liners,
QWERTY typewriters and the telephone in the 1870s, and automatic
computation, the automobile and electric lighting in the 1880s. The technological developments of this period made clear the need for worldwide standards, such as for measurement. Vital to the promotion of
international standards had been INGOs such as the International Association for Obtaining a Uniform Decimal System of Measures, Weights
and Coins that had been established in 1855. Governments responded
in the period under consideration here, which began with an intergovernmental conference on the metric system in 1870 and was followed in
1875 by agreement on the metric convention and the creation of an intergovernmental International Bureau of Weights and Measures.180 Subsequently internationally standardized measures were adopted in numerous
fields, including electrical units in 1882 and the prime meridian in 1884,
in each case following conferences of scientists.181 International standard-setting was not the exclusive preserve of governments, as some
INGOs were to create their own standards: the Phonetic Teachers Association (now International Phonetic Association) formed in Paris in 1886,
for example, developed the international phonetic alphabet.182 The pursuit of international standards also applied to human welfare, with early
organizations promoting international labour standards including the
International Sunday Observance Federation formed in 1876 and the
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foreshadowed the work of the International Labour Organization in its

efforts towards harmonization of labour laws.183
A key area in which international cooperation for global standards was
felt to be needed was industrial and intellectual property. INGOs were
central in pioneering demand for an international intellectual property
regime, with governments responding with conventions on industrial
property in 1883 and intellectual property in 1886.184 From 1857 an
Association Universelle pour lAdoption de la Marque de Fabrique et la
Dfense de la Proprit Industrielle had promoted defence of the rights
of industrial property wherever they might be violated,185 and the convention on industrial property was the result of a series of meetings that
took place after inventors exhibiting at the 1873 Vienna Exposition
refused to exhibit until a law protecting their inventions was passed.186
The role of non-governmental activism was especially clear in respect of
the intellectual property convention: the International Literary and Artistic Association formed in 1878 by Victor Hugo and other distinguished
writers both conceived and organized the 1886 Berne Convention.187
Accompanying the drive for international standards were new efforts
towards the unification of knowledge. In the 1880s and 1890s, international committees of scientists were established to map both the world
and the sky. International commissions were also created by mathematicians, geologists, chemists and zoologists to develop universal bibliographies of their respective fields, and in 1893 the Royal Society in London
established an International Catalogue Committee to develop a bibliography encompassing all natural sciences.188 This was followed in 1895 by
the formation in Brussels of the even more ambitious International Institute of Bibliography at the first International Conference on Bibliography that was convened by Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet and the director of
the bibliographical programme of the Brussels-based Society for Social
and Political Studies, Henri La Fontaine, who aimed to develop a truly
universal catalog of all knowledge.189 The International Institute of
Bibliography set about the creation of an extensive Universal Bibliographic Repertory on index cards that by 1897 contained 1.5 million
entries and by 1930 nearly 30 million.190 The work of members of the
International Institute of Bibliography in developing techniques for finding information on any area of human activity may be considered a precursor to aspects of todays internet such as search engines.191
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ing case study of the cyclicality of internationalism. The artificial language

movement of this era was not unprecedented.192 However, the first major
international auxiliary language was invented in 1879 by German priest
Johann Martin Schleyer.193 Claiming that it was a revelation that occurred
to him one sleepless night, Schleyer named his language Volapkor
world speechand within a decade there had developed 283 clubs dedicated to the language worldwide, possibly up to a million speakers, as
well as a Universal Association of Volapkists that was formed in 1887.194
However, Schleyer was a victim of his languages popularity: it soon
became simplified by its users in ways he could not accept, and the movement then collapsed on account of the splits that emerged.195 Many turned
instead to a language invented in 1887 by Lejzer Ludwik Zamenhof, who
called himself Doktoro Esperanto, or Dr Hopeful, an appropriate name
given that he intended his language to be unconditionally accepted by
everyone.196 Although this simpler language has proven to be more enduring than Volapk, the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (an INGO dedicated
to promoting the language set up in 1908) estimates the number of speakers in the present day to be in the hundreds of thousands.197
One of the principal objectives of international auxiliary languages
such as Volapk was the facilitation of international correspondence.198
During the 1890s there also developed an international network of correspondence clubs that aimed to link people of many nations through
correspondence on whatever subjects interested them.199 In France there
was formed in 1895 a Society of International Studies and Correspondenceor Internationalis Concordiathat sought to achieve this by such
methods as congresses, correspondence, international circles, translation
bureaus, and an annual bulletin of its members contact details and interests.200 Similar organizations were formed elsewhere, including Englands
Round About Club in 1895 and Kosmos in the Netherlands from 1898.201
Amateur efforts such as these were preceded by developments in international scientific collaboration. Amongst the most significant was the
formation in 1876 of the Universal Scientific Alliance which aimed to
facilitate relations between the men of science distributed throughout all
countries of the world.202 By 1906 this organization had Prsidences
gnrales in every continent, including in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Paris,
Oran, Paris and Saigon.203 It also issued its own Diplme Circulaire to
facilitate the international movement of scientists.204 This organization
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in Wiesbaden with German, British, French, Russian and US participants, which had the purpose of promoting scientific initiatives requiring international collaboration.205 Nature magazine hoped that this
organization would be an international parliament of science, but
although its membership expanded impressively and included Japanese
participation from 1906, as one of its founders noted in 1918 the actual
scientific output of this association was small.206
The formation of more specialist scientific INGOs as seen in the 1860s
also continued in the following three decades. Particularly significant was
the International Statistical Institute, formed in 1885 to promote uniform statistical methods internationally,207 which both proved more
enduring than earlier international bodies for social science and became
a model for many later INGOs, such as the International Actuarial Association. It was followed in 1893 by the International Institute of Sociology.208 The range of applied sciences joining the INGO movement
expanded in this period, with the formation in 1895 of the International
Association for Testing Materials.209 As regards purer sciences, international mathematical congresses were convened from 1893 and an International Association for Promoting the Study of Quaternions and Allied
Systems of Mathematics was formed in 1899; but international bodies
in respect of particular pure sciences tended to be slower to develop than
in the applied sciences.210 As for the arts, international congresses that
took place in this era include those on the history of art from 1873, photography from 1889, and music and history from 1893.211
Anthropologists were amongst the most prolific attendees of international congresses in the late nineteenth century. The first International
Congress of Orientalists took place in Paris in 1873, primarily to study
Japan and secondarily other parts of the Orient.212 These congresses,
which today are known as the International Congresses of Asian and
North African Studies, have since taken place intermittently, with the
first outside Europe taking place in Algiers in 1905.213 Quicker to start
meeting outside Europe was the International Congress of Americanists, which first met in Nancy in 1875 and then in Mexico City in 1895.
It has been argued that in common with the orientalism of the period,
Americanism reinforced European nationalism by identifying a racial and
cultural Other to contrast with the attributes of civilization.214 The late
nineteenth century also witnessed the continued formation of associations of Europeans for the study of Asia, such as the Asiatic Society of
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Japan that was created in Yokohama in 1872 by British and American

residents who wished to find out more about the country in which they
lived and which claims today to be Japans oldest learned society.215 The
first Latin American Scientific Congress, organized by the Argentinian
Scientific Society in Buenos Aires in 1898, on the other hand, developed
from interactions among native scientists in the Southern Cone states.216
This congress was considered to be highly successful and successor congresses followed; but as these congresses expanded, their scientific character diminished: this decline correlated with the expansion of US
participation and the pursuit of Pan-American objectives.217
At the same time as scientific cooperation developed pan-American
as well as pan-European dimensions in the late nineteenth century, growing international coordination in respect of environmental issues became
evident. In some cases, cooperation was for the purpose of research, such
as in motivating the formation of the Association of International Forest Research Stations in 1892 and an international commission to investigate solar radiation in 1896.218 In other cases, nature tourism was a key
motive, such as in the development from 1895 of the International Friends
of Nature.219 Concerns regarding food safety were evident in the convening of pure food congresses from 1898, and demand for conservation of food resources can be seen in the pressure in Europe for the North
Sea Fisheries Convention of 1882.220 A further dimension to the development of early environmentalism was the demand for game reserves:
pressure from hunters and preservationists contributed towards a British
government proposal in 1899 for an international game convention,
although this did not come into force.221 International scientific interest
in animals is reflected in the convening of ornithological congresses from
1884 and zoological congresses from 1889. The first international ornithological congress proposed that member societies should lobby governments for an international agreement for the protection of birds, an
objective which was ultimately achieved in 1902.222 The World League
for Protection of Animals, formed in Germany in 1898, survives as one
of the worlds oldest international animal welfare organizations.223
As for human welfare, the most prolific international scientific conferences of the late nineteenth century were dedicated to health issues.
A vast range of different aspects of medicine were to become the subject
of international congresses between 1876 and 1894, including homeopathy, mental health, laryngology, tropical medicine, neurology, dermatol
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ogy, therapeutics, physiology, gynaecology and thalassotherapy.224

Significant congresses were also dedicated to particular diseases, such as
tuberculosis from 1888 and leprosy from 1897.225 With the proliferation
of international congresses on medical science, their opponents also mobilized internationally, and in 1879 there was formed the International
League of Anti-Vaccinators, which organized the first international antivaccination congress in Paris in 1880.226
While scientific medical congresses tended not to result in the formation of enduring international organizations, efforts towards the formation of INGOs for the promotion of the interests of medical professionals
had more lasting results. The American Dental Society of Europe was
formed in 1873 due to concern that certain European dentists falsely
claimed to be American dentists and, not having the requisite skills,
were beginning to cause the reputation of the genuine Americans to be
undermined.227 Twenty-seven years later the World Dental Federation
was established, initially primarily to arrange annual dental congresses.228
Following the example of the International Council of Women, the International Council of Nurses was established in London in 1899 in the
hope that this would help improve nurses professional standing around
the world.229
Designed as a complement to the international exhibition on hygiene
and rescue work that took place in Brussels in 1876, the first of many
international congresses on hygiene and demography was convened by
the Royal and Central Society of Rescuers of Belgium, aiming to discuss a wide range of aspects of public health, such as water supply, housing conditions and health services.230 Other congresses and INGOs were
set up to discuss more specialist aspects of public health, such as birth
control. The Malthusian League was created in 1877 in London, stemming from the secularist movement of late Victorian Britain and concern about population growth.231 Its example was imitated in continental
Europe, and from the turn of the century a Fdration Universelle de la
Rgnration Humaine was set up and international Neo-Malthusian
congresses organized.232 Further specialization in transnational civil society treatment of human welfare is evident in the convening of the first
international child welfare congress in Paris in 1882,233 and the establishment of a permanent commission of prison reform congresses in
1880 and the International Union of Penal Law in Vienna in 1889.234
With the hosting of a worlds fair in Paris that year, the French capital
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hosted the first international congress of working class housing organisations235 and the formation of the International Society for the Study
of Questions connected with Poor Relief.236
The hosting of the worlds fair in 1889 in Paris coincided with the
hundredth anniversary of the onset of the French Revolution. It was
therefore an ideal setting for the holding of Possibilist and Marxist congresses on the anniversary date of the storming of the Bastille.237 The
Marxist gathering, which was broadly representative of European and
North American socialist parties, is said to be the foundational congress
of the Second International, even though the Possibilist congress
attracted more press attention at the time.238 The Second International
is notable for promoting 1 May as an international day for the eighthour working day.239 Although beset with divisions from the outset,
following the expulsion of anarchists in 1896 an International Socialist
Bureau was created in 1900 when it was felt that it is important for the
international congresses, destined to become the parliament of the proletariat, to make resolutions that guide the proletariat in its fight for
deliverance.240
Global union federations also date their origins to the two workers
international congresses of 1889, on account of the meeting of particular professions on the fringes of these congresses.241 The process towards
the formation of global union federations in Europe appears to have
started in 1871 with the conclusion of a reciprocal agreement on trade
union issues among the glove-makers organizations of Germany, Austria
and Scandinavia, and the formation in the 1870s of short-lived organizations such as the International Federation of Tobacco Workers in London and the Central Organization of Potters in Germany.242 In 1889, a
congress of seventeen representatives of European and US typographers
unions took place in Paris, which was followed three years later by the
formation of the International Typographical Secretariat.243 International
secretariats of hatters and shoe-makers have also been traced to meetings in Paris in 1889, although the former organized formally in 1900
and the latter in 1907.244 A lasting International Federation of Tobacco
Workers appears to have been formed in Anvers in 1889, and was followed, inter alia, by international federations of miners in 1890, woodworkers in 1891, glassworkers in 1892, metalworkers in 1893, textile
workers in 1894 and transport workers in 1897.245 The meetings of the
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the negotiations that led to the formation of global union federations, of

which there are estimated to have been seventeen by the end of the nineteenth century.246 The global union federations, the most significant of
which were those of the metalworkers and transport workers, tended primarily to concern themselves with meeting functional needs, such as
exchange of information and facilitation of members transfer to new
countries, rather than ideological objectives.247
Paris in 1889 was also the location for the holding of an international
congress of cooperative distribution societies. This set a precedent for the
broader International Co-operative Congress held in London six years
later at which the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) was
formed.248 Speaking at this congress, Owen Greening noted that the
cooperative movement had seemed laggards in the race towards international organization by comparison with scientists, trade unions and
others, but he also pointed out the comparatively greater scale of the
organization that had just been formed, with a total membership of 5 to
6 million, which he termed a new empire of the first rank.249 With
approximately 1 billion people in its member organizations, the ICA
claims still to be the largest INGO today.250 The founders of this organization hoped not only to establish commercial relations between the
co-operators of different countries for their mutual advantage but also
to spread a more comprehensive knowledge and conception of the full
meaning of mutuality applied to any phase of human life and to create
new and more durable links in the chain of human brotherhood which
co-operation is slowly but surely forging for mankind.251
Paris in 1889 may also be seen as a turning point for business INGOs
(BINGOs), as from that year onwards their number increased significantly, beginning with the International Commission of Agriculture.252
Earlier BINGOs had been created sporadically, amongst the most notable of which was the International Union of Marine Insurance, founded
in Berlin in 1874 to promote common standards and to eliminate any
mischief arising from undue competition between members; it remains
active today.253 The BINGOs created from 1889 onwards were highly
varied. Some reflected the technological developments of the era, such
as the International Union of Electricity Stations, formed in 1892.254
Others developed in response to international legislation, such as the
International Publishers Association, set up in 1896 to promote all appropriate measures to bring about adhesions to the Berne Convention.255
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In 18971900, the International Federation of Commercial Travellers

was formed,256 the same period during which the permanent bureau of
the international congresses of commercial education was created.257
As for development of international cooperation with respect to education more generally, the last three decades of the nineteenth century
saw a series of international congresses on education coinciding with the
worlds fairs.258 The holding of the worlds fair in Paris in 1889 provided
the opportunity for the formation of a short-lived International Federation of Students259 and the hosting of the first separate international
congresses on primary, secondary and tertiary education.260 An International Kindergarten Union was formed in the United States three years
later (which is now the Association for Childhood Education International),261 and in 1899 an International Bureau of New Schools was
formed in Geneva by Adolphe Ferrire.262
As was the case for labour and business organizations, the period after
1889 saw considerable expansion in the number of international professional organizations. Photographers met during the 1889 Paris worlds
fair and subsequently formed an International Union of Photography in
1891.263 In 1895 the International Actuarial Association was formed, modelled on the International Statistical Institute.264 The following year the
International Union of Press Associations was formed in Budapest, two
years after the first international congress of press associations in Anvers.265
The International Federation of Museum Officials appears to have been
formed in 1898 to prevent forgeries and dishonest transactions.266
For INGOs in respect of transport, Brussels in 1885 rather than Paris
in 1889 was the crucial turning point. Congresses in Brussels in 1885 led
to the creation of an International Railway Congress Association that
within two decades had acquired the affiliation of over 400 railway companies as well as nearly fifty governments in Europe, Asia, Africa and
the Americas;267 as well as the International Association of Public Transport268 and the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses.269 As for road users, the International Touring Alliance was
formed in 1898 by cycling clubs to promote international cycle touring,
but over time its membership transformed to include motorbike and
motorcar associations.270
Two decades before the formation of the International Touring
Alliance, the earliest sports INGO was founded: the International Club
of Horse Racing, based in Baden-Baden.271 Four years later, an Interna
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tional Board was created for association football to agree rules for the
British Home International Championship; the Board was to become
the model for the International Rugby Football Board which was set up
four years after that.272 The turning point for the formation of international sports federations was 1892, when international organizations for
cycling, rowing and skating were established: the primary objective of all
three of these organizations was the facilitation of international competitions and agreement upon common rules. Two years later the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed by Pierre de Coubertin,
who had been planning the revival of the Olympic Games since 1889 in
order to organize contacts between our young French athletics and the
nations that have preceded us in the way of muscular culture.273 The congress in Paris at which the IOC was created was preoccupied with the
definition of amateurism,274 and the first Olympiad that it organized in
Greece in 1896 attracted little press attention, had few visitors given the
poor transport connections to Greece, and of the 311 participants 230
were Greekalthough this still involved a greater number of international participants than had previous sporting occasions.275
The official report of the 1896 Olympiad gave much of the credit for
the organization of the Games to the Greek Crown Prince Constantine.276 A much more controversial example of the role of a royal in the
development of international civil society in the last three decades of the
nineteenth century is that of King Leopold the Second of Belgium.
Leopolds reign broadly coincided with the period during which Brussels was the centre of internationalism in Europe, an opportunity he
exploited as a convenient disguise for his colonial ambitions. In 1876,
the year in which Brussels was the host city for the international exhibition on hygiene and rescue work, Leopold invited explorers and geographers to a congress in Brussels ostensibly to found if possible the
international work of the rest-houses and scientific posts in Africa. A
quasi-non-governmental International African Association was established purportedly to the profit of science and philanthropy277 but in
fact for Leopolds personal profit, and within a decade he had ensured
that this organization became recognized as the government of Congo
and was transformed into the Congo Free State.278 The International
African Association was initially warmly received by humanitarians: the
Aborigines Protection Society even made Leopold its Honorary President, but by 1896 the Aborigines Protection Society was campaigning
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against the abuses that were occurring in the course of the exploitation
of Congos natural resources, reported to have included the trade in severed hands.279
The following year a very different African Association was formed in
London by Trinidadian lawyer Henry Sylvester Williams. This organization of Londons black population may have been the first organization to promote pan-African objectives.280 It aimed to encourage a feeling
of unity to promote and protect the interests of all subjects claiming
African descent, wholly or in part, in British colonies, and in other places,
especially in Africa. This Association organized the first Pan-African
Congress in London, timed to coincide with the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 in order to take steps to influence public opinion on existing proceedings and conditions affecting the welfare of the native in
various parts of the world. The conference, which included delegates
from Africa, America, England and the West Indies, not only transformed the African Association into the pan-African Association but
also issued an appeal to the Nations of the World that called for responsible government for the Black colonies in Africa and in the West Indies
and for the Congo Free State to become a great negro state.281
Pan-Africanism was one of many macro-nationalisms in the late nineteenth century. In the Americas, the Latin American governmental
initiatives of the early nineteenth century were succeeded by the US governments pan-American conferences from 1889. Pan-Atlanticism was
evident in the formation of organizations such as the Anglo-American
Association in 1871 and the Atlantic Union in 1897. In Europe, panSlavism and pan-Germanism were the most influential pan-movements.
In 1894 the General German League that had been created in 1891 was
renamed the Pan-German League to awaken and promote racial and
cultural homogeneity of all sections of German people and to promote
continuance of the German colonial movement.282 In East Asia, panAsianism developed in response to the forced opening of the region to
European influence from mid century.283 In Japan the Society for Raising Asia was formed in 1880 and succeeded by the Asia Association, and
the East Asian Common Culture Association was created in 1898.284 As
for South Asia, the development of Indian national consciousness is evident in the formation in 1876 of the Indian National Association and
the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, and the creation
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With respect to the Ottoman empire, Young Ottoman intellectuals

formed in 1865 a secret society known as the Patriotic Alliance to promote pan-Ottoman identity; and pan-Turkism and pan-Turanism also
developed in this period.285 In contrast, Ibrahim al-Yaziji promoted Arab
revitalization and resistance to Ottoman rule and took part in a secret
society for this objective in the late 1870s.286 Also significant were Jamal
ad-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh, the Islamic modernists who
founded the Salafiyyah movement and from 1884 published a newspaper entitled The Indissoluble Link which promoted Islamic unity against
imperialism.287 The activities of al-Afghani and Abduh have been labelled
as pan-Islamism, a term that entered Western discourse in the 1870s,288
and which was adopted by Abdullah Suhrawardy when he transformed
the Anjuman-i-Islam289 of London that had been formed in 1886 into
the Pan-Islamic Society in 1903.290
The international Zionist movement may be viewed as a further macronationalism that developed in the late nineteenth century.291 The pogroms
in Russia from the 1880s onwards and the Dreyfus case in France in the
1890s provided the context for the formation in 1897 of the World Zionist Organization at the First Zionist Congress that was convened in Basel
by Theodor Herzl, aiming to prepare the way for the establishment for
the Jewish people [of ] a legally secured homeland in Palestine through
fostering the settlement of Palestine organising the whole of Jewry
in suitable local and general bodies strengthening the national Jewish
feeling and taking preparatory steps to attain any Governmental consent which may be necessary.292
At the same time as pan-movements such as these were developing for
particular religions, efforts were also taken towards inter-faith dialogue
and understanding. The most notable of these initiatives was the World
Parliament of Religions convened in connection with the Columbian
Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, which, like previous worlds fairs, encouraged the holding of international congresses in connection with the exhibition. Charles Carroll Bonney, who was in charge of facilitating the
approximately 200 international congresses that took place in Chicago
in 1893, saw as the aim of the Congress to present to the world the
substantial unity of many religions in the good deeds of the religious
life.293 Although dominated by Protestants and excluding numerous religions including Sikhism and many African religions, the meeting succeeded in its objective of bringing together to put forward their common
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aims and common grounds of union speakers from a wide range of backgrounds, including Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, Eastern
Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism,
Taoism and Zoroastrianism.294 Of further significance for transnational
civil society is the part played by a number of the participants in the congress in the development of religious INGOs. Swami Vivekananda, who
spoke on Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions, for instance,
subsequently transformed the Ramakrishna Math into a transnational
religious order with centres in the West as well as in India.295 At the end
of the nineteenth century, an American Unitarian minister who had
helped organize the World Parliament of ReligionsCharles Wendte
became the first secretary of the International Council of Unitarian and
Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers, known today as the International Association for Religious Freedom.296
In Europe, transnational Roman Catholic religious orders remained
amongst the most numerous INGOs to be created in the late nineteenth
century. Other Christian groups also formed international bodies at this
time, including the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in 1875, the
World Methodist Council in 1881, and the Union of Utrecht in 1889.297
Christian youth organizations multiplied in this period too, with the
Worlds Alliance of Young Womens Christian Associations formed in
1894 and the World Student Christian Federation the following year.298
In 1878 the East London Christian Mission was transformed into the
Salvation Army: within a decade this organization had over 6,000 officers in Britain, Australasia, the Caribbean, continental Europe, North
America, South Africa and South Asia.299 The year when the Salvation
Army was formed also saw the relocation to India of the headquarters
of the Theosophical Society, an organization set up in New York in 1875
to oppose materialism and theological dogmatism by demonstrating
the existence of occult forces unknown to science, in nature, and the presence of psychic and spiritual powers in man.300 A somewhat contrasting
organization was set up in Brussels two years later: the World Union of
Free Thinkers which aimed to facilitate propaganda for rationalist ideas
through an entente between all those who believe it necessary to liberate humanity from religious prejudice and to assure freedom of conscience.301 Another organization, the International Union of Ethical
Societies which was formed in 1896, sought to disentangle moral ideals
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Despite facing growing criticism from rationalist organizations,

Christian INGOs of the late nineteenth century were a vital component
in the development of many of the most substantial transnational social
reform movements of the period. The anti-opium movement in the 1870s,
for instance, was spearheaded by Christians through organizations such
as the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade,
formed in 1874.303 The movement against pornography was also mobilized by Christian puritans, who convened the first international congress against immoral literature in Berne in 1896.304
Amongst the movements in which Christian INGOs were most influential was that for temperance, which had already developed internationally with the 1846 Worlds Temperance Convention and the international
spread of the Independent Order of Good Templars from 1868. AngloSaxon organizations such as this were joined in continental Europe by
the Blue Cross movement, created in Geneva in 1877, which formed an
international federation in 1886 that aimed at the salvation of drunkards through faith in Christ.305 Although far from successful in achieving universal abstinence, temperance organizations attracted large
memberships.306 More significantly, temperance organizations were to
play a crucial role in other social and political reform movements.
By far the most notable example of Christian temperance organizations centrality to other movements was that for womens right to vote.
In 1883 the Worlds Womans Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
was formed in the United States, with not only the objective of creating
a strong public sentiment in favor of personal purity of life, including
total abstinence from the use of all narcotic poisons, but also many wider
objectives including the enfranchisement of women of all nations.307 In
the first country to grant women the right to voteNew Zealandthe
WCTU was the critical organization in mobilizing the campaign for
womens enfranchisement.308 New Zealands womens suffrage movement
was stimulated by the visit of the WCTUs travelling envoy, Mary Leavitt,
and after the successful campaign there suffragists from New Zealand
disseminated their ideas and techniques across the world.309
The formation of branches of the Worlds WCTU commonly preceded
the creation of National Councils of Women. The latter affiliated to the
International Council of Women, which also originated in the United
States and was formed in Washington, DC at a congress timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention five
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years after the Worlds WCTU had been created. This organizations
objectives were broader than those of the Worlds WCTU: its constitution committed it to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice.310 By the end of the nineteenth century there were National Councils
in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Argentina as well as the United
States.311 It was therefore more successful in internationalization than
the International Womens Rights Congresses that took place in Paris in
1878 and 1889, the latter of which featured just seventeen delegates from
outside France.312
As well as the promotion of womens rights to participation in national
politics, one of the core themes of transnational activism concerning
women in the late nineteenth century related to their protection. An
example can be found in the movement against the practice of footbinding in China, with the formation of anti-footbinding associations from
1874, amongst the most notable of which was the Natural Foot Society
set up by ten women of various nationalities in London in 1895.313
Another organization, the Ramabai Association set up by Indian Christian
convert Pamita Ramabai in Boston in 1887, aimed to provide refuge for
child widows in India.314 In continental Europe, the International Union
of Friends of Young Women was set up in 1877 to form a network of
protection around every girl obliged to leave her home to earn a living,
and so far as possible around every girl alone or in bad surroundings,
whatever her nationality, religion or occupation.315 By 1900 there were
8,000 friends of young women, of whom the majority were in Germany,
Switzerland and France, who gave girls departing their countries letters
of introduction to friends in the girls destinations and pamphlets explaining the Unions services.316
Given its transnational nature, the issue of sex trafficking was one that
attracted particular attention amongst cross-border activists in the late
nineteenth century. One key activist was Josephine Butler, who after touring Europe in 18745 set up a British, Continental and General
Federation, with a view to give practical form to the strong though
hitherto, to a great extent, latent feeling of abhorrence of the system of
state-regulated vice already existing in many of the best minds in France,
Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and to arouse a powerful public opinion in support of an agitation similar to our own, which has now commenced in those countries.317 This organization became known as the

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International Abolitionist Federation from 1898, consciously drawing

parallels between the earlier movement against the slave trade and this
movement in respect of the white slavery of women and children used
as prostitutes.318 The Federation began campaigning in respect of the
white slave trade in 1877; in 1880 Butler succeeded in lobbying for the
conviction of sex traffickers in Belgium, and in 1887 the Federation proposed international legislation against the traffic.319
In 1883 the Bishop of Durham and Ellice Hopkins created the White
Cross Army that aimed to advance the protection of women and children from prostitution and degradation by targeting men. The organization succeeded in establishing branches in Africa, Australia, Canada,
China, Great Britain, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Trinidad and the
United States, and Hopkins pamphlets sold two million copies in Great
Britain and the United States.320 Another organization, the International
Bureau for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic which was formed
in 1899, sent its secretary, William Alexander Coote, to tour Europe to
ensure the establishment of national committees to deal with the white
slave traffic and to send delegates to meet at an international congress
in London to discuss the traffic.321 As well as creating the International
Bureau, the 1899 congress resolved that an international convention on
the white slave traffic was necessary; governments eventually agreed to
such a convention in 1904.322
Of the many issue-areas with respect to which international womens
organizations were formed in the late nineteenth century, amongst the
most significant were those for peace, arbitration and disarmament. Marie
Goeggs International Association of Women had been set up in 1869
to support the peace work of the International League for Peace and
Liberty. The following year American suffragist Julia Ward Howe called
for a Womans Peace Congress for the World to take place in England,
although her efforts in this direction were far less successful than her
campaign for coordinated womens peace festivals to take place in cities
in the United States, western Europe and Constantinople from 1873.
From 1887 the WCTU had a Department of Peace and Arbitration and
from 1896 the International Council of Women promoted peace and
arbitration and hosted an international congress on the issue with representatives from North America, Europe and Australasia in 1899.323 The
late 1890s saw international womens peace organizations proliferate,
with the creation in Paris in 1895 of the International Union of Women
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for Peace, and the following year in the same city the Universal Alliance
of Women for Peace by Education, also known as the International
League of Women for General Disarmament, and in 1898 the Association for Peace and Disarmament through Women.324 These organizations not only pioneered the promotion of general disarmament, but also
wider reforms of the international system, such as the International Senate for the pacific resolution of disputes promoted by the International
League of Women for General Disarmament.325
By this time, the peace movement more generally had had success in
forming more durable international organizations. As for many other
movements, Paris in 1889 was the turning point. That year the first of a
renewed series of Universal Peace Congresses took place in Paris from
23 until 27 June, organized by Lemonnier with assistance from Passy.326
Straight afterwards the Continental Hotel in Paris was the venue for the
first Interparliamentary Conference that Passy had helped to organize,
which brought together representatives from British, continental European, US and Liberian parliaments.327 The Universal Peace Congresses
were to be coordinated by an International Peace Bureau that was set up
in Rome in 1891,328 and the Interparliamentary Conference of 1889 was
the foundational conference of the Interparliamentary Union for
Arbitrationtwo organizations that have survived to the present day.329
Pursuit of international arbitration was central to the objectives of
international peace organizations in the late nineteenth century. This was
reflected in the names of a number of peace societies of the period, such
as the International Arbitration League and the International Arbitration and Peace Association in Britain. Also important in the movement
for international arbitration were organizations for international law that
developed in the 1870s.330 These included the International Law Association created in Brussels in October 1873, which included amongst its
aims the settlement of disputes by arbitration.331 It rivalled the Institute
of International Law that had been created in Ghent the month before,
with the ambitious aim to become the organ of the legal conscience of
the civilised world, as well as to promote the maintenance of peace and
the gradual and progressive codification of international law.332 Formation of the Japanese Society of International Law followed in 1897; it
claims to be the oldest academic society in Japan in the field of law.333
The issue of arbitration, alongside that of disarmament, mobilized one
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the nineteenth century drew to a close. The transnational mobilization

before and during the Hague Conference of 1899 was the most substantial example of transnational advocacy targeting an intergovernmental
conference yet to be carried out.334 The use of arbitration by governments
in 187190 three times as frequently compared with the previous seven
decades provides the context for the activism for arbitration that took
place in the 1890s, which included the adoption of a model Code of
International Arbitration at the Antwerp Universal Peace Congress in
1894.335 In addition, every Universal Peace Congress of the last decade
of the nineteenth century passed resolutions promoting disarmament,
including in 1891 a resolution advocating the convening of an intergovernmental meeting to discuss it.336 When such a meeting was advocated
in the Russian Tsars Rescript of 1898, peace activists claimed to have
influenced this decision, although economic motives may have been more
important to the Tsar.337
Women played a key role in ensuring that the scale of the non-
governmental campaign to persuade governments to take action at the
Hague Conference of 1899 was considerable. One international petition
circulated by women peace activists and presented at the conference
acquired more than 1 million signatures from Europe, Japan and the
United States.338 In addition, the first worldwide Womens Peace Demon
stration aiming to pass identical resolutions in 500 centres in eighteen
countries was planned for three days before the opening of the conference.339 The conference set up a Commission of Correspondence to handle the many resolutions sent to it, and this meeting was notable for the
pioneering of activist techniques for the lobbying of intergovernmental
conferences.340 Amongst the techniques pioneered at this conference were
the unofficial newspaper covering conference proceedings and the salon
where peace activists and government delegates could mingle.341 Although
the measures agreed at the first Hague Conference disappointed activists, especially the lack of progress on disarmament, a Permanent Court
of International Arbitration was established (albeit neither permanent
nor a court)342 and it may be argued that the widespread public support
for the Tsars Rescript ensured that governments could not conclude discussions without at least some agreement.343
By 1900 a total of 200 INGOs may have been in existence,344 a figure
which is likely to be an underestimate. The range of issue-areas which
they encompassed was already extensive, including, inter alia, business,
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communications, education, the environment, health, human rights,

humanitarian assistance, labour, law, peace, professions, religion, science,
sport and womens rights. While many of the INGOs in existence at this
time had very small memberships, somesuch as the International
Co-operative Alliancecould reasonably claim to speak on behalf of
millions of members.345 Furthermore, although the overwhelming majority of INGOs at this time were based in western Europe and North
America, several had members elsewhere, especially in Australasia, the
Ottoman empire, South America and Japan. The Worlds WCTU, for
instance, had branches in, inter alia, Armenia, the Bahamas, Bermuda,
Brazil, Burma, Ceylon, Chile, China, Egypt, Honduras, India, Jamaica,
Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, Siam, Sierra Leone, South
Africa, Syria, Turkey and Uruguay, as well in North America, Europe
and Australasia by 1900.346 There was also a growing number of Asianbased INGOs, such as Ramakrishna Math and the Theosophical Society, as well as a greater number of internationally-oriented national
organizations in the region, such as the Japanese Society of International
Law. The methods of INGOs had also developed by this time into a wide
range of techniques, from non-violent resistance methods such as the
strike used by the labour movement, to national and intergovernmental
lobbying pioneered especially by peace associations, to the methods of
world civic politics347 such as consumer boycotts promoted by anti-slavery societies. The impact of transnational civil society in this period was
also evident in government policy at both the national level (such as in
the case of womens right to vote in New Zealand) and at the intergovernmental level (such as in the outcomes of the first Hague Conference),
as well as in the formation of private international standards such as the
international phonetic alphabet.
The range of factors explaining how transnational civil society had
reached this point is extensive. As before, developments in science and
technology played a vital role: in the last three decades of the nineteenth
century, for instance, developments in electrical engineering required
international agreement on standards in which INGOs were to play an
important part. The context of the natural environment was also important, with concern regarding issues such as fish stocks and game reserves
critical to the development of early conservationist organizations. The
global economy was crucial too, with international competition a significant factor motivating the development of labour, business and cooper
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ative organizations at an international level. The broader context of

developments in communications (such as the opening of the Suez Canal
in 1869), in the global economy (such as a 2.5-fold increase in the value
of world exports at constant prices between 1870 and 1899)348 and in
society (such as the rise in emigration from Europe from 655,087 in
187180 to 1,330,573 in 18911900)349 also facilitated the expansion of
transnational civil society in the late nineteenth century.
As for the role of external political factors, the hosting of worlds fairs
especially the Paris Universal Exposition coinciding with the hundredth
anniversary of the French Revolution in 1889was a significant opportunity structure for the holding of international non-governmental congresses (the proceedings of many of which were published by the French
government) and the formation of new INGOs in a wide range of fields.
It was in the period after 1889 that INGO numbers multiplied particularly substantially, with estimates for the number of INGOs founded
in the decade from 1889 more than one-and-a-half times those for the
preceding ten years.350 As well as worlds fairs, intergovernmental agreements were a significant opportunity structure for INGO formation: the
Berne Convention, for instance, motivating the creation of the International Publishers Association. The actions of governments contributed
to INGO formation not only positively (i.e. through encouragement such
as in facilitating the organization of non-governmental meetings at
worlds fairs), but also negatively (i.e. through repression stimulating
INGO formation in response); one of the most notable examples of the
latter was the development of the World Zionist Organization in the
context of anti-Semitic government policies in Europe.
Internal political factors were also significant. A number of INGOs
proved to be examples that others wished to follow, such as the International Statistical Institute, which formed the model for many later bodies such as the International Actuarial Association. Transnational
diffusion of ideas was similarly important, for instance in the spread of
pan-isms with respect to every region of the world. A number of INGOs
primarily associated with transnational activity in one field were to have
important influence in stimulating transnational associational activity in
other fields: a notable example is the role of the temperance-oriented
Worlds WCTU in the development of transnational activism for womens enfranchisement. As in earlier years, individuals also played a vital
role, such as Passy in the peace movement, and Butler in the campaign
against white slavery.351
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Proliferation and Decline, 19011914

This chapter has shown that by the start of the twentieth century many
of the principal dimensions of transnational civil society as we now understand it were already evident and represented by INGOs. The following
section will reveal that although the number of INGOs and non-governmental conferences expanded at an unprecedented rate in the first
decade of the twentieth century, only a few developments in this period
built significantly on what had taken place in the nineteenth century.
After a discussion of some of these developments, it will be shown not
only how short-lived and insubstantial the proliferation of INGOs at
this time proved to be, but also the way in which this proliferation contributed towards a detachment from the political context of the time in
sectors of transnational civil society. In the second decade of the twentieth century, INGOs contracted dramatically before and during the First
World War, and some INGOs played an important role in contributing
towards the processes that culminated in this conflict.
The onset of the twentieth century was marked by the first Nobel Prizes,
that for peace being awarded jointly to Dunant and Passy in 1901: two
individuals who had played a vital role in the creation of INGOs over the
previous half-century.352 The organization that was established in 1900
to handle the assets left in the will of dynamite-inventor Alfred Nobel
for the peace and other prizesthe Nobel Foundationwas one of several internationally-oriented foundations to be created in the opening
years of the twentieth century. Others included the Carnegie Foundation, created in 1911, and the Rockefeller Foundation, formed in 1913,
both of which have been important in the evolution of international development since, in contrast to many earlier humanitarian bodies, they concentrated on using science to address underlying causes of suffering.353
Accompanying the expansion in internationally-oriented foundations
at the onset of the twentieth century was the emergence of international
organizations of service clubs. The oldest is Rotary International, which
developed from the Rotary Club of Chicago, formed in 1905 for the
members to give and to influence business to, and to get business from,
fellow-members and persons influenced by them, but which after about
a yearand in the face of external criticism for its self-centred orientationadopted the supplementary goal of enlightenment of its members
with regard to, and the participation of its members in, public affairs or
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and Great Britain in 1912, the National Association of Rotary
Clubs of America was transformed into the International Association of
Rotary Clubs.355 It was later to be joined by international organizations
of Lions Clubs and Kiwanians.
Further novel forms of INGO in the opening years of the twentieth
century included the International Union against Vivisection and the
International Central Bureau for the Campaign against Tuberculosis,
both formed in 1902; and the International Union for the Protection of
Infants and the Universal Society of the White Cross of 1907, both of
which made food safety a primary concern.356 That year, the International
Vegetarian Union was established in Dresden, an organization which
survives to the present day.357 A number of new organizations that mixed
governmental and non-governmental participation in this period, and
also survive to the present, reflected the technological developments of
the time, amongst them the International Institute of Refrigeration,
formed in 1909, and the World Road Association, created the following
year.358 In 1910 an International Office dedicated to the protection of
homeworkers was created in Brussels.359 Three years later the development of an Urban Internationale was evident in the formation of the
Union Internationale des Villes and the International Garden Cities and
Town Planning Association.360
As for the trade union movement, a novel development at the onset
of the twentieth century was the creation of the first International
Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres in Copenhagen in 1901,
which unlike earlier international trade secretariats was not confined to
a particular industry. This organizations objectives were initially fairly
limited: keeping the national trade union centres in touch with one
another, convening international conferences, preparing trade union statistics, etc.361 This led to the group being dubbed a post-box organization, but it was nevertheless significant in helping develop the reformist
approach and greater independence of the trade union movement.362 In
Zurich in 1913 the International Secretariat was transformed into the
International Federation of Trade Unions, with wider objectives including the protection and advancement of the rights, interests and justice
of the wage-workers of all countries and the establishment of international fraternity and solidarity.363
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peans and/or North Americans based in other regions of the world: in

East Africa, for instance, the regions first Quaker INGO was formed by
American missionaries in 1902, and seven years later settlers in Kenya
established the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society. A number of organizations were of mixed composition, such as the Indian
Society of Oriental Art created in Calcutta in 1907. Other organizations
aimed to promote particular identities. In the case of Arab identity,
INGOs formed in this period included the Ligue de la Patrie Arabe that
was established in Paris in 1904 and modelled its name on the Ligue de
la Patrie Franaise, and the secret society Al-Qahtaniyah that was created in Constantinople in 1909. The Ligue de la Patrie Arabe aimed to
separate, in the interests of Islam and the Arab nation, civil power from
religious power by creating an Arab empire under a constitutional
Sultanate based on the liberty of all religions and the equality of all citizens before the law and a universal religious caliphate throughout Islam
which would be completely independent of state policy.364 In India, the
All-India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka in 1906 at an All-India
Muhammadan Educational Conference, the latest of a series of conferences that had taken place since 1886. Notable new religious organizations to be established in this period include the Sufi Order in the West
formed by Pir Hadrat Inayat Khan in 1910 and the Ahmadiyya Society
for the Propagation of Islam that was created in Lahore in 1914. The
development of the pan-American movement at this time is reflected in
the establishment of a Pan-American Railway Congress Association in
1906, and a Pan-American Society and the American Institute of International Law in 1912. In Latin America, an International Congress of
Central American Students was created in 1910, a Workers International
Centre of Latin American Solidarity in 1913, and a Latin American and
Caribbean Alliance of YMCAs in 1914. Organizations that were established in this period to unite people in different regions included the
Sociedad Astronomica de Espana y America , formed in 1911; the PanPacific Union, established in 1912; and the Anglo-Chinese Friendship
Bureau, created in 1913.365
In addition to new INGOs such as these, the early years of the twentieth century witnessed a number of significant achievements by international associations and movements that had developed in the nineteenth
century. Geographers who had been meeting internationally since 1871
succeeded in persuading governments to take part in significant scien
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tific initiatives at the beginning of the twentieth century, such as the formation in 1903 of an International Association of Seismology to centralize
information on earthquakes.366 The International Association of Labour
Legislation created in 1900 formed the first International Labour Office
in 1901 and persuaded governments in 1906 to agree to the first international labour conventions, which dealt with the use of white phosphorus and womens night work.367 The convening of a second Hague
Conference the following year may be attributed in part to the efforts of
the Interparliamentary Union in persuading Theodore Roosevelt to invite
the Tsar to take this initiative forward.368 Although the second Hague
Conference achieved little, it is notable for being the occasion upon which
peace activists held a parallel non-governmental conference alongside
the intergovernmental congress, which may have been the first of its kind;
and the International Council of Women and the Salvation Army were
both offered deputations.369 The year after the second Hague Conference, the international movement against Leopolds exploitation of the
Congoin which the leading INGO was the Congo Reform Association (formed 1904), which supported the campaign in Belgium for annexation of the Congo by the Belgian governmentsaw the transfer of
Congo out of Leopolds hands.370 The following years saw non-governmental participation in the drafting of the 1909 Convention with Respect
to the International Circulation of Motor Vehicles, the drafting in 1910
of an intergovernmental Agreement for the Repression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications two years after an international non-
governmental congress on the issue, and an intergovernmental Convention
respecting Measures for the Preservation and Protection of Fur Seals in
1911, after years of non-governmental campaigning.371 US government
actions spurred by Asian missionaries culminated in the Hague Opium
Convention of 1912.372
Within sectors of transnational civil society in which INGOs already
existed, several enduring new INGOs were created in the opening years
of the twentieth century. Fourteen years after the creation in Washington, DC of the International Council of Women, the same city hosted in
1902 a conference at which was established the more explicitly suffragist
organization known today as the International Alliance of Women, the
constitutional aims of which were centred around information exchange.373
In the case of the environmentalist movement, the following year the
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lished in London as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna
of the Empire, the great object of which was the formation of game
reserves or sanctuaries.374 Three years later London was also the location
for the establishment of one of the most significant international organizations for standardization: the International Electrotechnical Commission that aimed to consider the question of the standardisation of the
Nomenclature and Ratings of Electrical Apparatus and Machinery.375
A number of lasting business INGOs were also created at this time.
In Brussels in 1903 the International Dairy Federation was established
to further the development of new techniques such as pasteurization and
to combat food fraud.376 The following year the International Textile
Manufacturers Federation was established at a congress of cotton-
spinners in London, at which it was remarked that the developments of
large combinations of labour have rendered the position of individual employers, or even of small associations of employers, one of increasing difficulty. We have also seen the development of great federations of
capitalists, and just as peace between nations is generally maintained by
being prepared for war, so in industry experience shows that complete
organisation of both employers and employed tends to ensure harmonious working.377 A precursor to the International Chamber of Commerce
was established in Milan in 1906 in the form of an international committee in Brussels intended to coordinate the regular international meetings of chambers of commerce that took place from 1905 onwards and
to implement their decisions.378
Several significant international sports organizations that emerged in
this period are also worth noting. One particularly productive year was
1904, when the organizations that now coordinate Formula One, the
Speedway Grand Prix and the association football World Cup were set
up. Eight years later the International Association of Athletics Federations was established after it was noted at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic
Games that hints have been made that Swedish interests, in particular,
were altogether too much considered in drawing up the lists of events
in athletics and that a standard programme as well as uniform rules and
regulations for the competitions were needed in athletics in order that
all nations will be placed on an equal footing.379
Although some new INGOs of the early twentieth century proved to
be substantial and long-lasting, many more were relatively fleeting. In
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number of INGOs were founded in comparison to the previous decade.

However, whereas more than half of INGOs founded between 1894 and
1903 survive to the present day, only approximately two-fifths of those
established in the next ten years have survived.380 The large number of
INGO foundations in the decade before the First World War disguises
the insubstantial and/or short-lived nature of many of them. Two particular types of organization in this category stand out: esperantist and
temperance INGOs. In addition to general temperance organizations
such as the International Bureau against Alcoholism formed in 1907 and
the International Prohibitionist Federation created in 1909, there was
established a range of specialist bodies such as the International Total
Abstainers Association of Railway Workers, the International Bureau of
Abstaining Students, the International Committee of Abstaining Priests,
and the International Catholic Federation of Total Abstainers. As for
the Esperanto movement, in addition to general organizations such as
the Universal Esperanto Association dating from 1908, a dazzling array
of specialist esperantist bodies were also formed such as the Theosophical Esperantist League, the International Society of Esperantist FreeThinkers, and separate International Associations of Esperantist Bankers,
Jurists, Police Employees, Teachers, Postmen, Scientists, Doctors, Vegetarians and Men of Letters.381
It is in the context of this proliferation of INGOs that some elements
in transnational civil society lost sight of developments beyond the ascent
of international associations. In 1907 approximately twice as many INGOs
were formed compared to the previous year, but only a quarter of these
survive to the present day. Among them is the Union of International
Associations (UIA), best known for publishing in the present day the
most comprehensive directory available on INGOs, the Yearbook of International Organizations; this is the successor publication to the Annuaire
de la Vie Internationale, the production of which the UIA took over from
Austrian pacifist Alfred Frieds International Institute of Peace, established in 1903 and based in Monaco. The initial objectives of the UIA,
however, were far bolder than simply the publication of an annual review
of international life and directory of international organizations.
The UIAs founders included Otlet and LaFontaine, who had already
had success with their International Institute of Bibliography, which convened an international conference of international associations in 1906.382
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tions joined together to form a Central Bureau of International Associations, and this was transformed into the UIA at the first World Congress
of International Associations, attracting representatives of 132 international organizations to meet in Brussels in 1910 (a year from which only
one third of the INGOs that were established survive).383 The organizers of this conference felt that the congress was the latest development
in a vast and continuous movement [that] tends towards much greater
co-operation between similar groups in all countries [and] to the unification of methods and to international agreements on all points.384
Representatives of the vast majority of the principal INGOs of the period
took part in the congress, as did delegates from thirteen governments,
including Australia, Bolivia, China, the Dominican Republic, Mexico,
Turkey and the United States, as well as central and western European
governments (but not Britain, France, Germany or Italy). Among the
distinguished list of adhrents were such eminent figures as Lon
Bourgeois, Andrew Carnegie, Pierre de Coubertin, Baron dEstournelles
de Constant and Wilhelm Ostwald.385
In a booklet published in the year that Germany invaded Belgium, the
UIA outlined its aims in English as no less than to bring together the
International Associations, in order to pursue the systematic organisation of International Life in all its branches and developing the international associations actually existing by harmonizing their program
and their work, and by constituting a world center for their general services by means of organization of the representation of all the international associations in a federated body. The UIA intended that
international associations would deliberate in general meetings, where
questions of great interest, common to the whole of humanity, may be
brought forward; to formulate unanimous views and to unify their
methods.386 At the second World Congress of International Associations of 1913, bringing together representatives of 169 international organizations and twenty-two governments (this time including Britain,
France and Italy), grandiose plans were approved for an International
Palace in Brussels worthy of the importance of the organizations that
created it.387
A short distance to the north, the finishing touches were being made
to a Peace Palace that was to house the Permanent Court of Arbitration
in another planned world capital, The Hague. In the years running up
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were passed not only by the primary peace movement, but by many other
sectors of transnational civil society. The peace work of womens international organizations since the nineteenth century has already been noted.
As for the labour movement, at the time of the Second Balkan War an
emergency congress of the Second International in Basle in November
1912 passed a resolution demanding peace in the Balkans, war on
war, peace for the world, building on an earlier peace resolution passed
in Stuttgart in 1907.388 The previous month, the international meeting
of chambers of commerce in Boston aimed to exemplify and promote in
a practical way the motto expressed at the opening of the Lige Congress,
Commerce is Peace.389
For some, such as Norman Angell, the international activities of labour
and business offered hope for a more peaceful world. In his well-known
work, Europes Optical Illusion, Angell asked: if both capital and labour
are being pushed by the circumstances of their development into complete internationalisation and coming to take no account of politiconational rivalries, what classes can remain outside such a movement?390
Angell argued that the movement towards internationalisation may go
a long way in many activities without affecting the race for armaments,
unless there also takes place a rationalisation of our political conceptions.391 However, his proposed means for achievement of this objective
reveals the thinness of his internationalism: he placed his faith in the
practical genius of the English race.392
Much of the international work of labour and capital in the period
leading up to the First World War hardly promoted Angells vision of a
more harmonious future. The peace resolution of the Second International at Stuttgart in 1907, for instance, was passed in the context of a
speech by Rosa Luxemburg which stated we must all think of the Great
Russian Revolution in connection with this point of the agenda in
case of war the agitation should be directed not merely toward the termination of war, but also toward utilizing the war to hasten the overthrow of class rule in general.393 As for INGOs in the business sector,
many of those to be created in the opening years of the twentieth century were not simply industry federations, but international cartels, such
as the International Rail Makers Association that was revived in 1904.
In addition to the evident divisions between capital and labour that
were ultimately to contribute towards the Cold War, the nationalistic
tendencies that many have cited as a contributory factor to the First
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World War were a significant aspect of the movement for the formation
of INGOs of the early twentieth century. Hoffman compares civil society of the turn of the century with earlier associational life as follows: In
place of the lofty ideals of civic association that transcended the nation
but remained rooted in local sociability, international organizations
emerged that aimed to assert and organize concrete political or economic
interests, for example, of nation states.394 This process may be seen to
have developed in the 1830s in Mazzinian associations such as Young
Europe. Early-twentieth-century nationalist organizations such as Young
Bosniawhich was responsible for the assassination that sparked the
First World Warlooked to Mazzinian associations as a model for their
activities.395 Furthermore, the ideal of national self-determination was
promoted by many who purported to advocate a more peaceful world,
such as Angell, who argued that peace under the Turks was equivalent
to war; the liberation of the Balkans was the corridor to civilisation.396
Liberal INGOs of this period, such as LIPL, may therefore be vulnerable to the accusation of holding what Michael Howard has termed an
almost unconscious acceptance of the medieval concept of the just war
in their advocacy of national self-determination.397
It is also worth noting some other ways in which INGOs reflected the
development of nationalism in this period. For example, several international organizations formed in the early twentieth century aimed to promote particular languages and cultures, such as the International
Federation for the Extension and the Culture of the French Language
established at Lige in 1905, and the English Association formed the
following year. While the activities of organizations such as these were
relatively benign, the same cannot be said of the international organizations for the promotion of eugenics. Amongst the most notorious was
the International Society for Racial Hygiene that was established in
Germany in 1905 by Alfred Ploetz, who in 1933 was to acclaim Hitler
as the man who had the will to implement racial hygiene.398 Seven years
after the formation of the Racial Hygiene Society, the University of
London hosted the First International Eugenics Congress with the
involvement of leading figures such as Arthur Balfour, Alexander Graham
Bell, mile Borel, Winston Churchill, Paul Doumer, Charles Gide, David
Starr Jordan, Reginald McKenna, Arthur Schuster and Ren Worms.399
To this Congress, Ploetz communicated a paper complaining of the
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The previous year the University of London had hosted the Universal
Races Congress that by contrast has subsequently been credited as one
of an important number of agents in the development of liberal thought
away from the Victorian consensus that there was a hierarchy or chain
of different racial stocks.401 While much of the proceedings served to
reinforce racial stereotypes, the organizers intended the congress to aim
at encouraging between the peoples of the West and those of the East,
between so-called white and so-called coloured peoples, a fuller understanding, the most friendly feelings, and a heartier cooperation.402 Considerable effort was made to ensure representation at the congress from
across the globe, each session attracting more than a thousand participants, and plans were made for a permanent secretariat and further congresses, although no subsequent sessions took place.403
Two attendees at the Universal Races Congress were French journalist Jean Plissier and Lithuanian exile Jean Gabrys, who after a chance
meeting upon their return to Paris decided to set up a Central Office of
Nationalities in October 1911.404 The Central Office of Nationalities followed a similar path of development to the UIA: in June 1912 it organized an international conference on nationalities, and just as the Central
Office of International Associations was turned into the more ambitious
UIA, so the Central Office of Nationalities was converted into the more
ambitious Union of Nationalities (UON).405 Like the UIA, the UON
focused mainly on scientific activities, the publication of a journal (the
Annales des Nationalits) and the convening of conferences. However,
while the UIA concentrated on facilitating relations among international
bodies, the UON hoped to promote to the progress of universal and perpetual peace through its work on behalf of different nationalities.406 Like
one of the earliest INGOsMazzinis Young Europethe UON was
intended to promote the cause of national self-determination [which]
Plissier saw as a universal panacea that would solve all political problems.407 Given its purportedly pacific objectives, the UON attracted to
its Comit de Patronage such notable figures as Nobel Peace Prize winners Bajer and Fried, as well as LaFontaine of the UIA, which commissioned the UON to report on the demands of nationalities for the 1913
World Congress of International Associations.408
The pages of the Annales des Nationalits, however, reveal a very different picture to the anticipated promotion of peace through national selfdetermination, with numerous articles on the wars associated with the
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fragmentation of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires

in this period, and ominous reports with such headings as Angry Serbia.409
This did not deter the staff of the UIA from turning towards the promotion of the rights of nationalities. In his 1914 work La Fin de Guerre,
Otlet outlined A World Charter that promoted not only a Confederation of the States of the World but also the inalienable and imprescriptible right of nations to demand independence and their own states.410
Like most INGOs, the UIA had to cease most of its activities during the
First World War: the last edition of the Annuaire de la Vie Internationale
was published in 1912 and the planned third World Congress of International Associations set for 1915 in San Francisco never took place.411
Instead, Otlet chose to cooperate with the UON, which continued to
publish the Annales des Nationalits throughout the war and managed to
convene a third International Congress of Nationalities in 1916, with
Otlet in the chair.412 By this time, however, Gabrys was using the UON
as a secret agent for Germany, and the discussions of the congress avoided
criticism of Germany and focused on the dissolution of the Russian
empire.413 Plissier subsequently hoped to make use of the UON as a
secret agent for France.414 After the collapse of the UON after the First
World War, both Plissier and Gabrys exited the stage in an undignified
fashion: while Plissiers diary contains comical entries in which he
complains about the way his own insights into what he felt was the great
tide of history had been usurped in the eyes of the world by President
Wilson, the pathetic epilogue to Gabrys unhappy career came after the
Second World War, when, living in Vevey, Switzerland, he insisted that
he should be king of Lithuania.415
The demise of transnational associational activity in the second decade
of the twentieth century preceded the onset of the First World War. As
Boli and Thomas have pointed out, after 1910 there was a severe collapse
in the number of INGOs founded, and the rate of INGO dissolution
rose dramatically between 1911 and 1913.416 The rate of INGO formation declined approximately 20 per cent each year from 1911 until 1916;417
and the number of international meetings may have fallen from 180 in
1913 to 125 in 1914, and halved each year during the First World War.418
The reversal of fortunes for transnational civil society in the second
decade of the twentieth century took place in the context of developing
instability in the international system, such as the crises in Morocco and
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to have the reverse effect. It was argued earlier in this chapter that the
consolidation of the nation-state provided the context for the consolidation within these states of national civil society, much of which in turn
formed transnational links, and that imperialism facilitated the expanding geographical reach of many INGOs. However, imperialism and the
empowered nation-state were also among the key aspects of the fragmentation of the early twentieth century. Even many technological
advances which had previously facilitated international communication
were to be inhibitive of transnational associational life when used for the
purposes of war.419
In his pioneering study of European internationalism before the First
World War, F. S. L. Lyons argued that in the early twentieth century leading figures in this movement fell into the mistake of assuming they were
living in a rational world: preoccupied with planning for the anticipated
third Hague peace congress and third congress of international associations, they evinced not only a wonderful and touching faith in human
nature but also a remoteness from reality which is almost inexplicable in
view of what we know to have been the state of Europe at that time.420
This remoteness from reality was reflected in the formation of multiple
INGOs in increasingly obscure issue-areas, the creation of INGOs of
INGOs such as the UIA to unite these organizations, and most especially
in the claim of the leaders of such organizations to be, as put forward in
the quotation with which this chapter opened, the most representative
forces of the different countries in their own particular domain.421
It may even be argued that, through their promotion of nationalism,
some transnational civil society actors themselves encouraged the deterioration of international relations in the first two decades of the twentieth century.422 Michael Howard, for instance, has suggested that liberals
and socialists became hypnotised by the apparent transformation of warmongering capitalists into a strong force for peace and so underestimated the true dangers stemming not only from the balance of power
which they had so long denounced but also from those new forces of
militant nationalism which they themselves had done so much to encourage and which combined to destroy the transnational community they
had laboured to create.423
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The period from the outbreak of the First World War to that of the Second is often overlooked in existing work on transnational civil society,1
and it has commonly been viewed as a period of stagnation in associational life.2 Historical work on the international relations of the interwar era has tended to concentrate on the evolution of interstate diplomacy.3
Authors writing at the time on international affairs in the 1920s and
early 1930s, on the other hand, would commonly note the impressive
number of societies, philanthropic, scientific, religious, fraternal and commercial, that cut straight across frontiers and bring men together with
influence and results too profound to be properly estimated.4 As this
chapter will reveal, the scale of transnational associational life that developed from the First World War until the early 1930s surpassed that which
preceded the conflict. The first part of this chapter explores how, despite
the First World Wars initially detrimental consequences for much of
transnational civil society, it eventually helped facilitate the development
of a new generation of INGOs that aimed to address a wide range of
issues, including those arising from the conflict and its aftermath. The
Paris Peace Conference of 1919 provided a particularly significant opportunity for transnational advocacy, with labour, peace and womens private
international associations, among others, having a significant impact upon
proceedings. The subsequent section of this chapter discusses the rapid
development of transnational civil society in the 1920s, and the expanded
range of INGO activities including interactions with the institutions of
the League of Nations and independent non-governmental policy ini
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tiatives. The final part of this chapter looks at how in the 1930sin a
similar pattern to that which took place two decades beforeactors in
transnational civil society became detached from their circumstances,
with the development of large coalitions of INGOs that claimed to
represent the public opinion of the world,5 as international relations
deteriorated and transnational civil society fragmented, contracted and
lost influence in the years preceding the Second World War.
The First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the
Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society, 19141919
Although the First World War was the occasion for the expansion in
volume of activities of some sectors of transnational civil society, such as
the international Red Cross movement, for most the onset of the conflict prevented many of their activities from taking place. As the pioneer
student of INGOs Lyman Cromwell White argued, it was almost impossible to hold international meetings during the conflict and revenues
declined, and supporters were busy fighting.6 Many INGOs of the prewar period were never to function again, such as the International Association of Academies, the International League of Anti-Vaccinators, the
International Neo-Malthusian Correspondence and Resistance Bureau,
the International Union against Vivisection, the International Union of
Ethical Societies, Internationalis Concordia, the Universal Scientific Alliance, and many of the specialist esperantist and prohibitionist INGOs
that had been formed in the early twentieth century. The overall rate of
INGO formation also continued to decline by approximately one fifth
in each of the first three years of the conflict.7
Apart from Europe, however, the rate of organizational formation was
relatively unaffected. On the day Germany declared war on Russia,
Marcus Garvey established in Jamaica the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League
(UNIA) with a bold set of aims, including to establish a universal confraternity among the race, to assist in civilizing the backward [sic] tribes
of Africa; to strengthen the imperialism of independent African states;
to establish Commissionaries or Agencies in the principal countries of
the world for the protection of all Negroes, irrespective of nationality,
and later to establish a central nation for the race.8 By mid 1919 Garvey
claimed his organization had a membership of 2 million in thirty
branches, based mainly in the United States.9
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Before US entry into the World War, concern for the humanitarian
consequences of the conflict was a significant motivation for INGO
formation there. In October 1914 Herbert Hoover established the
American Committee for the Relief of Belgium (CRB). This organization was created in response to the danger of famine in occupied Belgium
and northern France and was able to facilitate the maintenance of the
regions population at subsistence level throughout the war: despite being
a non-governmental body, the CRB had a number of state-like capacities, including concluding agreements with governments and issuing its
own passports.10 The year after the CRB was formed, the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (now known as the Near East
Foundation) was organized in New York by Cleveland Dodge in response
to the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman empire, and it claims to have
contributed towards the saving of a million lives in the Near East during the First World War.11
The extent to which South America was insulated from the First World
War is reflected in the creation in that period of some of its most significant international sports federations, including the South American
Football Federation CONMEBOL that was formed in 1916 during the
first South American continental football championship in Buenos Aires,
and the South American Athletics Federation CONSUDATLE that
was established two years later. Another Latin American organization
to be formed in this period was the Latin American Odontological
Federation, FOLA, established in Chile in 1917.12 Elsewhere, the year
1917 also saw the Bhandakar Oriental Research Institute established in
Pune,13 and the East African Womens League formed in Nairobi.14
Despite the setbacks of the conflict, a few new INGOs were also created in Europe during the First World War. Amongst the most significant was the Zimmerwald Left, established immediately after an
international conference that brought together anti-war socialists in
Zimmerwald, Switzerland, in 1915. The Zimmerwald Left aimed to
serve as a clarion for the revolutionary confrontations that the war would
inevitably provoke and comprised Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek, Berzin,
Borchardt, Platten, Hglund and Nerman.15 Radek introduced them as
the first, gradually awakening part of the international working class
with every day our circle will grow, until we are a great militant army.16
It has been argued that the history of international Communism begins
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referred would eventually appear in the ranks.17 The Zimmerwald Left,

despite its modest origins, provided the basis for the organization of the
Communist (or Third) International after the Bolshevik Revolution.18
The onset of the First World War also transformed the peace movement. One organization, the World Alliance for Promoting International
Friendship Through the Churches, was founded in Constance on 2 August
1914 and aimed to bring together the great religious organizations all
over the world in the question of international peace and goodwill.19 The
following February, a World Union of Women for International Concord
was established in Geneva to spread internationalism by the establishment of a means of communication between the women of the entire
world.20 Two months later, an International Womens Committee of
Permanent Peace was created at a congress of more than a thousand
women at The Hague to ensure that womens views would be represented
at the peace settlement that followed the war.21 Earlier in April 1915,
The Hague had hosted an international meeting of peace groups at which
a Central Organization for a Durable Peace was formed and which
issued a Minimum Programme, including amongst its proposals a permanent organization for the Hague Conferences with a view to the
peaceful organization of the Society of Nations.22
By 1915 the idea of a League of the nations of Europe that Cambridge
academic Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson had advocated shortly after the
war had begun23 (and of a Society of Nations which Lon Bourgeois had
promoted since before the war)24 was gaining ground among peace advocates. In October 1914 Dickinson brought together a group of pacificistsknown after its chairman as the Bryce Groupthat was to devise
plans for a league of nations, the first draft of which was circulated in
February 1915 and proposed limited measures for cooling-off periods
and mutual defence against attack.25 Three months later, in May 1915, a
League of Nations Society was formed in London with Anglican Liberal
MP Willoughby Hyett Dickinson as its chairman, which promoted a

League of Nations whose member states would unite in any action
necessary for insuring that every member shall abide by the terms of the
treaty.26 It was soon followed by the creation in June 1915 in the United
States of a League to Enforce Peace (LEP) with William Taft as its
President, aiming to promote a League of Nations with its member states
committing to use economic and military forces against any one of their
number that goes to war.27 The LEP managed to persuade President
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Wilson to provide the closing address of its First Annual National

Assemblage in May 1916, at which he advocated an universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security of the highway of
the seas and to prevent any war begun either contrary to treaty covenants or without warning and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world, a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and political
independence.28
In his pioneering work on international government prepared for the
Fabian Research Department and published in 191516, Leonard Woolf
noted the development of over 500 voluntary international associations
after 1840 and claimed that they had contributed towards the solution
of the problem of international government.29 He argued that there is
hardly a sphere of life in which a consciousness of international interests
has not penetrated, and led to men of every tongue and race joining
together in order to promote those interests.30 He also noted that many
of the diplomatic conventions establishing the Public International
Unions and many conventions which have unified the Laws and
Administrations of States have originated in and been worked out by
[private] international associations.31
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was therefore seen as an unpre
cedented opportunity for NGOs to influence governments. Amongst the
most significant NGOs present in Paris were the League of Nations
Societies, which US legal adviser David Hunter Miller credited with having played a great part in the creation, during the world war and parti
cularly in its later period, of an almost universal sentiment in favor of
some Association of Nations for international peace.32 Representatives
of League of Nations societies from the victorious countries met in Paris
at an international conference from 25 January until 1 February 1919
and agreed to a seven-point programme that they hoped would influence the drafters of the Leagues Covenant, who began their deliberations on 3 February. The Societies also agreed to the establishment of a
temporary Inter-Allied Bureau of League of Nations Societies, and to
investigate how to pursue joint action of a permanent character.33 The
secretary general of the International Federation of League of Nations
Societies (IFLNS) that was eventually established in December 1919,
Thodore Ruyssen, was to note that the extent to which the content of
the League of Nations Covenant resembled the seven-point programme
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to the League of states in a position to give effective guarantees of its

loyal intention to observe its undertakings; creation of an International
Representative Council to stimulate the development of international
legislation, a Permanent Conciliation Committee, and a Court of
International Justice; armaments limitation; supervision of armaments
manufacture; and formation of an international labour body.34 This was
thought to be partly the consequence of the actions of two significant
attendees at the conference of League of Nations Societies: one being
the French delegate to the official Commission on the League of Nations
Lon Bourgeois, who led a deputation of the League of Nations Societies to the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference; the second being the
British delegate to the official Commission Robert Cecil, who kept in
touch with British League of Nations supporters during the deliberations of the official Commission.35
Two days after the League of Nations Societies had assembled in Paris,
a congress of the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian empire met
in the same city from 3 until 5 February 1919, but failed to come to agreement.36 Nevertheless, many representatives of different nationalities succeeded in presenting their demands to the major powers at the Paris
Peace Conference.37 Furthermore, Jewish groups presented requests for
provisions in the peace settlement for protection of minorities rights in
several deputations, and it has been argued that the inclusion of provisions in the minorities treaties agreed in Paris from an earlier Jewish Bill
of Rights agreed by the American Jewish Congress in December 1918
is irrefutable evidence of the contribution of the American Jewish Congress to their drafting.38 The International Anti-Opium Association in
Peking that was formed in 1918 also felt that its telegrams to the peacemakers succeeded in ensuring the inclusion of ratification of the Hague
Opium Convention of 1912 in the peace settlement.39 Less successful
was Japans League to Abolish Racial Discrimination which cabled
Clemenceau on 5 February 1919 to demand of the Peace Conference
the final abolition of all racial discrimination: when Baron Makino proposed an article embodying this to be inserted into the League Covenant
eight days later, he had no support from other countries.40
Starting on the same day that the congress of nationalities of the Russian empire began in Paris, labour and socialist representatives from both
victorious and defeated states assembled in Berne from 3 to 10 February 1919. This conference adopted a resolution proposing that represen82
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tation in the central organ of the League should be, not by delegates of
the executive branches of the Governments of the constituted states, but
by delegates from the Parliaments representing all parties therein, ensuring thus, not an alliance of Cabinets or Governments, but a union of peoples.41 Influenced by this resolution, a proposal for regular extraordinary
meetings of the League Council to include Parliamentary and NGO
representatives was considered during the deliberations of the Commission on the League of Nations on 13 February 1919, but was rejected.42
The international labour and socialist conference at Berne also passed
resolutions promoting national self-determination, labour standards, and
a permanent Commission, consisting in equal parts of representatives of
the States which are members of the League of Nations and of the International Trades Union Federation; a delegation was sent to Paris to present these resolutions to the President of the Paris Peace Conference.43
The resolutions on labour standards and a permanent international labour
commission adopted at the Berne Conference had evolved from the
demands for industrial clauses to be inserted into the peace treaty
adopted at an inter-allied trade union conference in Leeds in 1916.44 The
proposal for an international labour office at the Leeds congress is said
to be the germ of the ILO as we know it today.45 At the Paris Peace
Conference, the President of the American Federation of Labour, Samuel
Gompers, was appointed chairman of the intergovernmental commission on labour legislation that drafted a Labour Charter and the constitution of the International Labour Organization (ILO).46 There was a
widespread perception that the creation of the ILO was a response to
the revolutionary demands of labour in 19181919.47
Just as the international socialist conference in Berne finished, another
international conference in Paris brought together delegates from the
allied countries of the International Alliance of Women from 10 until
16 February 1919. President Wilson received a deputation from them in
the evening of the first day, and three days later he proposed the creation
of an intergovernmental commission to enquire into the international
concerns of women, but had to withdraw the proposal in the face of
Clemenceaus opposition to discussion of womens political status.48
Instead, womens deputations were permitted to the intergovernmental
commissions on labour legislation and the League of Nations. An entire
sitting of the international commission on labour legislation was devoted
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International Council of Women and several French womens associations, and their demands included equal opportunity, equal pay for equal
work, and the creation of national female labour committees. The
President of the commission assured the women delegates of the commissions sincere desire to give satisfaction to the claims of the Associations represented, and references to equal pay and womens participation
in national inspection systems were present in the commissions draft
articles for insertion into the Versailles Treaty.49 The commission on the
League of Nations received a joint deputation of the International Council of Women and Conference of Allied Suffragists on 10 April 1919, at
which requests were made for the appointment of women to the League,
abolition of the traffic in women and children, womens right to vote, and
international health and education organizations.50 The Covenant of the
League of Nations ultimately provided for equal opportunity for women
and men to obtain positions in the League and League responsibility to
supervise agreements concerning the traffic in women and children.51
The womens organization that was set up in 1915 to present womens
views at the peace conference, the International Committee of Women
for Permanent Peace, left it until May 1919 to convene its post-war congress in Zurich, at which it was transformed into the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). This congress condemned
the Versailles Treaty for having so seriously violate[d] the principles upon
which alone a just and lasting peace can be secured and sent a deputation to Paris to present its views, but found that none of the womens
proposals was accepted by the Big Four.52 Nevertheless, in its later relations with the League of Nations, WILPF was to pioneer many techniques for lobbying intergovernmental organizations.53
Another organization that is said to have blazed a path for NGO
involvement in international affairs54the International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC)originated in an International Trade Conference that
took place in Atlantic City in October 1919. The conference chairman,
Alfred Bedford, described this meeting of the industrial, financial and
economic leaders of the Allied countries and the United States for a single purposethe restoration of the worlds commerce to a normal basis
as the most important international trade meeting in history and a
corollary to the Peace Conference.55 The historian of the ICC, however,
argued that in so far as the conference, limited by war horizons, marked
the reforming of something like the old Allied industrial war front under
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its program must be considered as an ominous implementation of the
Treaty of Versailles.56 On the other hand, in approving the formation of
a permanent organization along broader lines than previously, the conference hoped to promote international commerce, to facilitate the commercial intercourse of nations, to secure harmony of action on all
international questions involving commerce and industry, and to promote peace, progress and cordial relations between the countries and
their citizens by the cooperation of business men and their associations
devoted to the development of commerce and industry.57
The other major business INGO to emerge at this timethe International Organisation of Employersoriginated at the first ILO conference, in Washington, DC in November 1919, at which the employer
delegates, in contrast to the labour delegates, found themselves to be
absolutely disunited they did not know each other; neither had they
exchanged any views as regards the serious problems with which production was directly concerned.58 As a result they resolved to establish
the following year the International Organisation of Industrial Employers to work for the common interests of its members at the ILO.
Organizations such as these represented a new generation of INGOs
that were much more substantial than their nineteenth-century predecessors, which by comparison White described as more visionary rather than
practical and more for the sake of being international than for the sake
of getting something accomplished.59 The post-war organizations not
only focused more on practical action, but also often had more considerable memberships and financial resources than their precursors, and were
to play an often influential role in the international politics of the period.
Amongst the most significant of the new generation of INGOs to
emerge in 1919 was the organization that today claims to be the worlds
largest humanitarian organization,60 the International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), initially known as the League
of Red Cross Societies, which was to have more member national associations in the interwar years than there were state members of the League
of Nations.61 At a medical conference in Cannes in April 1919, the prime
mover behind the Federation, Henry P. Davidson, described the rationale for the organization as a lesson which some of us think we learned
during the war realizing the power of the organizations which have
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they could render, we believed that there was one sole and sacred
responsibility, and that was that we should co-ordinate our endeavors to
go on and do the work that could only be done by the co-ordinated effort
of the Red Cross organizations of the world. In his hope that there would
be a time when every nation in the world will have a Red Cross organization and when the Red Cross organization will be recognized by the
people of the country as the national organization for the general good
and welfare of the people within that country, Davidson emulated (more
realistically this time) the goals of earlier humanitarians such as John
Murray of the Society of Universal Good-Will of Norwich, who in the
eighteenth century projected a centralized global charity with local
branches to administer relief .62
Another significant humanitarian INGO to be formed in May 1919
was the Save the Children Fund. This emerged from the movement in
Britain in opposition to the continuation of the allied blockade after the
First World War. Whereas the Fight the Famine Council from which it
emerged concentrated on political advocacy against the blockade, the
Save the Children Fund aimed to provide direct relief to those suffering
as a result of the blockade.63 The goals of one of its founders, Eglantyne
Jebb, expanded to include developing a powerful international organisation for child saving which would extend its ramifications to the remo
test corner of the globe, for which a Save the Children International
Union was created in Geneva in 1920.64
One of the clearest examples of the contrast between the INGOs established after the First World War and many of their nineteenth-century
precursors is provided in the field of scientific collaboration. Many of the
numerous international scientific congresses of the period before the First
World War operated with either no permanent organization, or one with
few purposes beyond the convening of congresses. From July 1919 this
changed significantly. In that month the International Research Council (transformed in 1931 into todays International Council for Science,
ICSU) was established in Brussels to co-ordinate international efforts in
the different branches of science ; to initiate the formation of international Associations or Unions deemed to be useful to the progress of science ; [and] to direct international scientific activity in subjects which
do not fall within the purview of any existing international associations.65
It succeeded in facilitating the formation of international unions dedicated to particular sciences, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geodesy, geography, physics and radio-telegraphy.66
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As for the humanities, the International Union of Academies was

established at a conference in Paris in October 1919 in order to facilitate relations among the national academies of different countries, organize conferences, and inaugurate, encourage and direct such research
work and publications as would appear best to further the progress of
archaeology, history, philosophy, the moral, political and social sciences
and which necessitate or deserve a high degree of cooperation.67 In addition to its annual conferences that took place usually in Brussels, its commissions examined subjects as varied as alchemical manuscripts, Grotius,
medieval Latin, Byzantine music and Islamic tradition.68
The development of internationalism in educational circles at this time
is notable. In February 1919 the Institute of International Education
(IIE) was formed in New York to develop international good will by
means of educational agencies, and for its specific purpose to act as a
clearing house of information and advice for Americans concerning
things educational in foreign countries and for foreigners concerning
things educational in the United States.69 As well as facilitating student
and professor exchange programmes, this organization claims to have in
the 1920s persuaded the U.S. government to create a new category of
nonimmigrant student visas and to have published the first reference
guides to international study.70 The IIE was formed in response to a perception that The outbreak of the Great War found most Americans, even
of the intelligent class, unfamiliar with many of the problems brought to
the surface by it.71
Another response to this problem in 1919 was the establishment of
new institutions for the explicit study of international affairs. Some had
highly specific objectives, such as the Hoover War Collection, which
aimed simply to provide an historical collection on the Great War (but
which in 1957 was transformed into the Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace).72 More general objectives were proposed at a
meeting during the Paris Peace Conference on 30 May 1919 of members of the British and American delegations who discussed the creation
of an institute of international affairs with one branch in England and
another in America.73 The motivation for this was outlined as being the
production of sound public opinion by a small number of people in real
contact with the facts who had thought out the issues involved, according to its prime mover, Lionel Curtis of the Round Table movement for
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Council on Foreign Relations, established in 1920 and 1921 respectively.75

It is also claimed that the worlds first Chair for the study of international politics was founded in 1919 at the University College of Wales,
Aberystwyth.76
More INGOs were founded in 1919 than in the previous three years
put together.77 Although not all of them were to survive the Second
World War, some of even these still managed to achieve considerable
memberships in the following two decades; one such organization was
the International Confederation of Students, founded in 1919 and within
a decade growing to a million members, and achieving some success in
the arrangement of international student travel and sports.78 Some smaller
organizations, such as the Christian pacifist International Fellowship of
Reconciliation, were to prove more enduring.79 Many more of the small
INGOs formed in 1919, such as the Society for a League of Religions
founded in London in that year, were less successful.80
Several INGOs formed in 1919 followed significant changes in the
domestic politics of many countries at this time. Accompanying the
enfranchisement of women in eighteen countries in 191819, for instance,
a wide range of new womens INGOs were established. The new womens INGOs of 1919 included US-based womens service clubs, such as
Quota International and Zonta International, which aimed to provide
womens counterparts to earlier service organizations, such as Rotary
International and the Kiwanis. Also founded in the United States in 1919
was the Medical Womens International Association, at the first International Congress of Women Physicians in New York. On the other side
of the Atlantic, the International Federation of University Women was
founded in London with the aim to promote understanding and friendship between the university women of the nations of the world, and
thereby to further their interests and develop between their countries
sympathy and mutual helpfulness.81
Following the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution in January 1919, the World League against Alcoholism was launched in June 1919. It was formed by the Anti-Saloon League
of the United States and the Dominion Temperance Alliance of Canada
and aimed to attain, by the means of education and legislation, the total
suppression throughout the world of alcoholism.82 The initiative has been
described by Ian Tyrrell as a grasp for global moral hegemony by evangelical reformers [who] saw Wilsonian democratic idealism as a model
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for the extended moral influence of the United States.83 However, their
missionaries were to be rejected abroad, and the movement finally collapsed with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933.84
A very different agenda for global political transformation was put forward on the other side of the world at the first Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow from 2 until 6 March 1919.
The congress consisted of just thirty-five delegates from so-called communist parties in these smaller nations which had formerly comprised
the Russian empire or war prisoners or foreign radicals who happened to be in Russia at the time.85 At the congress, Zinoviev appealed
not to shrink from creating in the Third International the instrument for
creating an international Soviet republic.86 Subsequently, the GermanAustrian, Swedish, Balkan and Hungarian representatives moved that a
united, resolute, international organization of all communist elements be
founded to destroy the rule of capital, make war impossible, abolish State
frontiers, change the entire world into one co-operative community, make
a reality of the brotherhood and freedom of the peoples.87
The founders of the Comintern aimed to support the exploited colonial peoples in their struggles against imperialism.88 Such struggles were
gaining considerable ground in 1919, a year in which Amanullah
announced Afghanistans independence on 13 April (the day of the
Amritsar massacre in India), the 4 May protests took place in Beijing,
and the Egyptian revolution occurred. In South Asia, Gandhi used satyagraha in opposition to legislation impeding the home rule movement,
and in the same year the pan-Islamic Khilafat movement was launched.
At the September 1919 All-India Muslim Conference, the partition of
the Ottoman empire was opposed and an All-India Khilafat Committee
established.89 In November of that year, the Jamiat al-Ulama-e-Hind was
founded in Delhi to provide leadership according to the tenets of Islamic
law and for strengthening contacts with the rest of the Islamic world.90
In February of 1919, the First Pan-African Congress took place in Paris,
at which a permanent committee was established and a somewhat
restrained resolution called for League of Nations supervision of Africa.91
The year 1919 had seen the formation of a greater number of INGOs
than any previous year.92 Many of them represented the development of
a new generation, more focused on practical action and possession of a
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people that were affiliated to the re-established International Federation

of Trade Unions, or the million-dollar budget of Rotary International.93
Although the short-term impact of the First World War had been detrimental to transnational civil society, it provided the context not only
for the development of this new generation of INGOs, but also for the
fruition of many of the goals to which earlier INGOs had aspired, such
as the creation of the League of Nations, womens enfranchisement in
many countries, prohibition legislation in the United States, and
Communist revolution in Russia.
The Development of Transnational Civil Society in the 1920s

Over the course of the 1920s more than twice as many INGOs were
founded than had been created in the entire nineteenth century, and
whereas 2,699 international conferences took place between 1840 and
the First World War, from 1919 until 1932 some 2,018 international
conferences were held.94 In this period, INGOs developed substantial
relations with the apparatus of the League of Nations, and carried out
many independent policy initiatives of their own. The following paragraphs will explore in turn the expanding role of INGOs in a wide range
of fields, including humanitarian assistance, human/minority rights,
gender equality, anti-colonialism, pan-nationalism, religious identity,
Communism and anti-Communism, syndicalism, socialism, business
internationalism, standardization, communications, environmentalism,
cultural internationalism and peace.
Many more enduring INGOs were formed in the 1920s than can be
covered in detail in this chapter. Beyond those listed in Table 4, enduring new INGOs of the 1920s worth noting included organizations concerned with: the arts (e.g. International Society for Contemporary Music,
1922); business (e.g. World Energy Council, 1924; International Association of Department Stores and Leading Hotels of the World, 1928);
health (e.g. International Council of Ophthalmology, 1927; International
Hospital Association, 1929); peace (e.g. War Resisters International,
1921; Universal Love and Brotherhood Association, Japan, 1925); poli
cing (e.g. Interpol [initially an INGO], 1923); the professions (e.g. International Association of Lawyers, 1927; Association of International
Accountants, 1928); welfare (e.g. International Federation of Settlements,
1922; International Social Security Association, 1927; International
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Table 4: Illustrative table of selected INGOs founded 19191929, with preWW2 membership data
Category
Illustrative INGO, with

year of foundation
Membership of illustrative
INGO preceding Second
World War95
Arts
International PEN, 1921
Members in 38 countries
Broadcasting
International Broadcasting Union, 1925
Business
International Chamber of
Commerce, 1919
Children
Save the Children

International Union,
1920
Environment
International Committee
for Bird Preservation,
1922
Ex-Servicemen
Inter-Allied Federation
of Ex-Servicemen, 1920
Health
International Professional
Association of Medical
Practitioners, 1926
Humanitarianism
Human Rights
Migration
Minorities
League of Red Cross

Societies, 1919
International Federation
for Human Rights, 1922
Permanent International
Conference of Private
Organisations for the
Protection of Migrants,
1924
Congress of European
Nationalities, 1925
Broadcasting organizations in 29 countries;

estimated wireless
audience of 110 million
listeners
More than 800 business

associations in 48
countries
34 organizations in 31
countries
Member national sections

in 27 countries
8 million ex-servicemen
in 66 associations in 11
countries
Member professional
associations in 27
countries
Red Cross societies in 62

countries
Member Human Rights

Leagues in 18 countries
Approximately 40
associations in 14
countries
33 national minority
groups; approximately 40
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Peace
Professions
Religion
Science
Socialism
of League of Nations
Societies, 1919
of Library Associations,
1929
International Headquarters of the Sufi Movement, 1923
International Council of
Scientific Unions, 1919
League of Nations
associations in 38
countries
40 associations in 29
countries
Branches in 13 countries
Scientific societies in 42
countries and 7 international scientific unions
Labour & Socialist

International, 1923
6 million members in 35
countries97
Syndicalism
of Trade Unions, 1919
Transport
International Air Traffic

Association, 1919
Approximately 23 million
people in trade union
centres in 22 countries98
Students
Women
International Confederation of Students, 1919
International Co-operative Womens Guild, 1921
Approximately 900,000
students in 34 countries
25 airlines
Several million members

in 34 countries99
Federation
of Social Workers, 1928); women (e.g. Associated Country
Women of the World, 1929); and youth (e.g. World Organization of the
Scout Movement, 1920; World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts, 1928).100
One of the principal reasons for the proliferation of INGOs and their
activities in the 1920s was the establishment of the League of Nations,
which provided an unprecedented opportunity structure for INGOs. The
League of Nations wasin the words of one of the drafters of its
Covenant, Robert Cecila great experiment; and this is reflected in the
early discussions of the Leagues Secretariat regarding its relationship
with INGOs.101 Apart from a reference in Article 25 to the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised national Red Cross organizations, the Covenant of the League of Nations did not specify how the
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League was to handle INGOs.102 In consequence, the Secretariat noted

in February 1920 that in all questions connected with international organizations and their relation to the League, it is exceedingly hard to find
any general principles. It is hard even to find very broad rules for guidance in action. But if individual problems are dealt with one by one
by the people who are intimately concerned with them, general principles will gradually emerge from the conclusions to which such people
come.103 From the conclusions made by League officials over the following two decades, many precedents were set for the subsequent practice
of the United Nations.
The British National Council of Women succeeded in persuading Eric
Drummond to suggest that it would be very wise to secure a good woman
on the Publicity Section through whom we can get in touch, for purposes of propaganda, with the various womens organizations.104 He subsequently appointed Lithuanian princess Gabrielle Radziwill to the
Secretariat, who was to liaise not only with womens INGOs but INGOs
more generally.105 The Secretariat often sent officials to observe INGO
meetings, produced regular bulletins and handbooks on INGOs and their
activities, published INGO resolutions in its official journals, circulated
summaries of communications received from INGOs to members of the
Council, arranged deputations from INGO representatives to the
Presidents of the Assembly and Council, and appointed INGO representatives as assessors on specialist League committees such as on refugees, statistics, transport, the traffic in women and children, and other
social questions.106 Douglas Williams has argued that under the informal relationship with the League INGOs were endowed with greater
participatory privileges than they enjoy today with the United Nations.107
The ILOs relationship with non-governmental actors was the most extensive of the Leagues bodies, given that half of its composition comprised
worker and employer delegates who could not be government officials,
and it is the only component of the League to survive to the present
day.108 The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC),
on the other hand, disappointed those who hoped that it would do for
the liberal professions what the International Labour Office was intended
to do for industrial workers,109 although it did cooperate with a Comit
dEntente des Grandes Associations Internationales in exploring the
means of defending and preparing peace in peoples minds through the
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Amongst the first activities that required collaboration between the

League of Nations and INGOs was humanitarian assistance. The cooperation between the Red Cross movement and the League of Nations
High Commissioner for Repatriation of Prisoners, Fridtjof Nansen,
resulted in the repatriation of 425,000 prisoners of the First World War
from Russia in the two years from April 1920.111 Given Nansens success
in this field, the International Committee of the Red Cross suggested in
February 1921 that a League of Nations Commissioner for Russian refugees be appointed, and Nansen took up this position in September
1921.112 Another aspect of the relationship between the Red Cross and
Nansen was the response to the Russian famine: a conference convened
by the League of Red Cross Societies and the International Committee
of the Red Cross in August 1921 created the International Committee
for Russian Relief, of which Nansen was High Commissioner and in
which participated the Save the Children International Union and the
American Relief Administration, who proceeded to feed more than 10
million people.113 Two years later the League of Red Cross Societies and
International Committee of the Red Cross cooperated again, this time
to raise nearly 300 million Swiss Francs to assist the relief of the victims
of the Great Kanto earthquake.114 Lobbying from the League of Red
Cross Societies in the 1920s led directly to the establishment of the first
ever international organization specifically set up to respond to disaster:
the intergovernmental International Relief Union (IRU), established in
1927 for the benefit of all stricken peoples, which recognized the free
cooperation of all other official or non-official organizations that may be
able to undertake the same activities.115 The idea of creating the IRU is
attributed to Giovanni Ciraolo of the Italian Red Cross, who was invited
to present his ideas to the Council of the League of Nations, and the Red
Cross and other interested organisations were consulted at every step in
the preparatory work of the League of Nations for the IRU.116 The League
of Red Cross Societies has also been credited with being largely responsible for the establishment of the International Union against Tuberculosis in 1920, the International Union for Combating Venereal Diseases
in 1924, the Standing Committee on the Health and Welfare of Seamen
in 1927, and the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness in 1929, as well as establishing in nearly all countries first aid and
home nursing classes, health lectures, child welfare centres, anti-malarial and anti-tuberculosis dispensaries and sanatoria.117
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The relief work of organizations such as the Red Cross was accompanied by that of international voluntary service organizations developing
in this period, such as the International Voluntary Service for Peace
(Service Civil International), established in 1920 to recruit men and
women from all countries who will give practical help in time of natural
catastrophes and will carry out voluntarily works of general utility.118 In
the fifteen years following its foundation, this organization drew 2,500
volunteers from Europe, Mexico, India and Iceland to assist in relief after
more than twenty natural disasters in Europe and India.119
Over the course of the 1920s, several INGOs were established dedicated to assisting migrants. One of the first was the International
Migration Service, created on the initiative of the American YWCA in
1921 on account of the importance of providing assistance in Europe
for women and children heading for America from all countries.120
Within a year the service had branches in eleven countries, and by 1934
it had assisted 20,000 families.121 In 1924, the Permanent International
Conference of Private Organisations for the Protection of Migrants was
set up with the objective of promoting international cooperation for the
protection of migrants through the instruments of the League of
Nations.122 It was followed in 1927 by HICEM, which united the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society of New York, the Jewish Colonization Association of Paris and Emigdirect of Berlin, and was to play an important role
in facilitating the emigration of Jews facing persecution in central and
eastern Europe.123
Some of the most significant non-governmental humanitarian work
in the 1920s was carried out on behalf of children. The Save the Children
International Union was the most prominent INGO in this field: within
five years of its formation in 1920 it had committees in forty countries,
4 million had been raised, and relief had been provided to children in
thirty countries.124 Its most notable achievement was the Declaration on
the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the Assembly of the
League of Nations in 1924 and, along with the creation of the Leagues
child welfare committee, is said to have marked the passing of social
work for childhood into an official object of international relations.125
The Declarations author, Eglantyne Jebb, alongside Ren Sand of the
League of Red Cross Societies, was also central to the formation of the
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promote discussion among social workers and social agencies throughout the world.126 Another organization, the International Association
for the Protection of Child Welfare, which was formed in 1921 and was
of mixed governmental and non-governmental participation, was an early
example of an NGOIGO merger; the League of Nations took over the
governmental component in 1924.127
While Save the Children is notable for its promotion of childrens
rights, human rights more generally were promoted by organizations
such as the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), created
by human rights leagues in twenty countries in 1922 to promote the dissemination and application in all countries of the principles of justice,
liberty, equality and the sovereignty of the people, as issued in the French
Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789 and 1793 and to work continuously for the extension of the rights of man to all persons and communities (refugees, outlaws, the stateless, the persecuted, national
minorities, etc.), as well as to promote peace through the League of
Nations.128 Since 1898 the Ligue des Droits de lHomme had worked as
a French association to defend the principles of liberty, equality and justice enunciated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789.129
FIDH, on the other hand, describes itself as the first international organization for the defence of the rights of man, and in 1927 it launched
an appeal to the international community for the adoption of a Global
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the creation of a permanent international criminal court.130 Ten years earlier, Andr Mandelstam had presented to the American Institute of International Law a draft declaration
on international law that included reference to international rights of
the individual, and by 1929 the International Law Institute had adopted
a Declaration of the International Rights of Man that was subsequently
endorsed by FIDH in 1931.131
Given the provisions of the minorities treaties that followed the First
World War, the protection of minorities was often the focus of practical
action by INGOs with respect to human rights in this period. In 1925,
a Congress of European Nationalities was set up to form a link between
the ethnical minorities of Europe; to facilitate the regular exchange of
ideas and cooperation between their responsible leaders with a view to
elucidating and solving the problem of nationalities so as to remove the
chief cause of European wars.132 This organization claimed to speak on
behalf of 40 million people and to have stimulated the whole treatment
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of the minority problem in the League of Nations, which had procedures for responding to minorities petitions.133 Because it was felt that
the Council of the League of Nations was hampered by the necessity of
having to act with excessive caution in respect of minorities complaints,
organizations such as the IFLNS attempted to carry out their own work
on behalf of minorities.134 The IFLNS mediated in the disputes between
thirty-four minorities and their respective governments between 1923
and 1938, and claimed to have had success in respect of the Danish
minority in Germany in 1923, the Bulgarian minority in Romania and
the Romanian minority in Bulgaria in 1928.135
The persecution of Jews in Europe at this time formed the context for
the formation of the organization now known as the International League
against Racism and Anti-Semitism. This organization developed from
the League against Pogroms that was established in Paris in 1927 by
Bernard Lecache, who aimed to save the life of Samuel Schwartzbard,
accused of murdering Symon Petliura, whom Schwartzbard believed
was responsible for pogroms in Ukraine. Following the acquittal of
Schwartzbard, the organization was transformed into the International
League against Anti-Semitism, which with objectives including the reconciliation of peoples, peace among races and equality among men as
well as defence of the rights of existence and peace of Jews throughout
the world was to attract a prominent membership including Albert
Einstein, Maxim Gorky and Sverine.136
Following the successful promotion of womens right to vote in many
European countries after the First World War, womens INGOs sought
to expand their agenda in the 1920s. The International Alliance of
Women, for instance, revised its objects in 1920 beyond the promotion
of woman suffrage to include sex equality in practically all fields of political, social and economic life.137 Womens INGOs were amongst the
most active in making efforts to exploit the new opportunity structure
opened by the creation of the League of Nations. At the first League of
Nations Assembly in 1920, for instance, a member of the ICW addressed
the delegates on the subject of the traffic in women and children, a subject for which a League Advisory Committee was set up with numerous
womens INGOs as assessors or advisory members.138 Womens INGOs
played a particularly pioneering role in the establishment of collaborative bodies to coordinate their work in relation to the League of Nations,
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nizations that was set up by the IAW, WILPF, the Worlds YWCA and
the ICW in 1925.139 The new intergovernmental organizations of the
League of Nations system were not simply seen as opportunities, but also
threats that needed to be addressed: the formation of the Open Door
International for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker in
1929, for instance, was motivated by the perception that it became daily
clearer that the problems created by the work and influence of the International Labour Organisation was a menace to women all over the world,
and that nothing but an international organisation would be in a position to combat its attack on the woman worker.140
A further dimension to the expansion of womens INGOs activities
in the 1920s was their effort to becomeor at least to appearwhat
they called truly international, [when] they added members and national
sections in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.141 The activities of womens groups beyond Europe and North America, however,
were not always successful. A particularly notable example is the movement against female genital mutilation, which in Kenya was confronted
by considerable opposition from the nationalist Kikuyu Central Association: it has been argued that the campaign against female circumcision
became a symbol for colonial attempts to impose outside values, and
thus may have had a counterproductive effect on those whom it was
intended to help.142
The Kikuyu Central Association was one of many nationalist organizations to emerge in the colonies of European countries during the 1920s.
The development of Indian nationalism is evident in the formation of a
range of All Indian organizations of sectors of the Indian population,
such as the All India Trade Union Congress in 1925 and the All India
Womens Conference and the Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry in 1927. Beyond colonial Asia, the Japanese are
credited with the first attempt to give substance to a vague Pan-Asian
sentiment, with the convening of Pan-Asian Conferences from 1920 by
the Japanese Pan-Asian Society.143 Two years later, the Eastern Bond
Association was formed in Egypt to work for a close co-operation
between Egypt and all other Eastern peoples in their struggle for national
liberation, to establish an Eastern League of Nations, to promote cultural, scientific, economic and social bonds among the peoples of the
East, to disseminate the Eastern idea and to rejuvenate the Eastern civilization.144 The development of Afro-Asian consciousness was evident
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in the convening in Delhi in 1929 of an Afro-Asian Conference by

Jawaharlal Nehru.145 A series of Pan-African Congresses took place in
the decade following the first that had taken place in Paris in 1919. Efforts
towards cross-Pacific understanding were evident in the creation in 1925
of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the formation of the Pan-Pacific
and South-East Asia Womens Association (PPSEAWA), following the
Pan-Pacific Womens Conferences of 1928 and 1930. In the Americas,
numerous pan-American organizations were created in the 1920s, such
as the Pan-American Federation of Architects Associations and the PanAmerican Federation of Labor in 1920 and Soroptimist International of
the Americas in 1921. New Ibero-American organizations were also created in the 1920s, such as the Federacin Latinoamericana de Prensa
Peridica that was established in 1925. INGOs centred around the British Commonwealth and the French-speaking world also multiplied in
the 1920s.
Amongst the most significant pan-movement organizations to be created in this period followed the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in
1924. In 1926 world Islamic conferences took place in Cairo and Mecca
and promoted rival claims to be Caliph.146 The World Muslim Congress
INGO that was formed at a subsequent congress in Jerusalem in 1931
was set up to propagate Moslem culture and morals and to promote
amongst Moslems a spirit of brotherhood; to safeguard Moslem interests and to preserve Moslem holy places from any interference; to combat any Missionary activities or campaigns amongst Moslems; [and] to
establish universities and educational institutions which will endeavour
to create conformity in Moslem culture and to teach Arabic language to
Moslem children.147 This organization lobbied for Muslim interests at
the League of Nations and developed branches in Palestine, Syria and
Transjordan.148
A more radical organization was set up in Ismailia, Egypt, in 1928.
The Society of the Muslim Brothers, which initially had a strong touch
of Sufism, was created to raise a new generation of Muslims who will
understand Islam correctly.149 Although many of its branches beyond
Egypt before the Second World War were merely based around friends
or personal contacts of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers, the organization
reported within a decade of its formation branches in Aden, Bahrain,
Djibouti, France, India, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudia Arabia,
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in Palestine, North Africa and Syria in the 1930s.150 Its activities were
preceded by those of the Young Mens Muslim Association (formed in
reaction to and partly modelled on the Worlds Alliance of YMCAs),
which was established in Egypt in 1927 and spread to many other Arab
territories; its educational and social welfare activities foreshadowed those
promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood.151
Keen to exploit anti-colonial sentiment was the international Communist movement, which facilitated the formation in Moscow in 1920
of the League of Islamic Revolutionary Societies that aimed to make
the Muslimswho are used like slaves, enslaved and dominated by the
imperialists and capitalistsmasters of their own fate under the leadership of Turkey.152 Although this organization is said to have led little
more than a fictitious existence,153 other Communist anti-colonial organizations were more substantial. The League against Imperialism, for
instance, set up in 1926, had branches in Britain, France, Germany, India
and the Americas.154
Communist organizations were active in numerous aspects of transnational civil society in the 1920s, including freethought (the Proletarian
Freethinkers), humanitarian aid (Workers International Relief and International Class War Prisoners Aid), peasants (the International Peasant
Council), sport (the Red Sports International), tenants (the Tenants
League), war veterans (the Union of War Veterans), and youth (the Young
Communist International).155 Amongst the most substantial was the Red
International of Labour Unions (Profintern) that was created in Moscow
in July 1921 to fight against the corruptive ulcer, gnawing at the vitals of
the world labour union movement, of compromising with the bourgeoisie and to carry on decisive battle against the International Bureau of
Labour, attached to the League of Nations and against the Amsterdam
International Federation of Trade Unions, which by their programme and
tactics are but the bulwark of the world bourgeoisie.156
At the opposite extreme were organizations such as the International
Entente against the Third International, created in 1924 by Geneva-based
lawyer and ICRC delegate Thodore Aubert, aiming to bring down Communism by all lawful means and seeing itself as the world centre of the
anti-Bolshevik movement.157 It was set up to oppose the constant attacks
of subversive groups at the forefront of which is the Third International through action at the international level and to defend the principles of order, family, property and fatherland.158 With branches in
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twenty-four European countries,159 it has been described as the oldest

and largest anti-Comintern INGO of the interwar era,160 and has also
been considered to have developed into a notorious pro-Nazi, pro-Fascist
and pro-Japanese agency.161
The International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) which the
Profintern was designed to oppose dedicated a significant proportion of
its efforts in the 1920s to the fight for the defence of democracy, opposing both Communism and Fascism.162 Although confronted by competition not only from the Profintern but also from the International
Federation of Christian Trade Unions, created in 1920, IFTU was considered to have been the most broadly representative INGO of the interwar labour movement, claiming to speak on behalf of 23 million people
in 22 countries in 1920.163 It gave aid to Austria and carried out international boycotts against Hungary and Poland in 1920, assisted in relieving the Russian famine in 19213, and is credited with having had great
influence in the work of the League of Nations and played a vital role
not only in the actual workings of the ILO but in supplying the support
and pressure needed to secure national ratifications of its conventions.164
In much of its work, especially that which targeted the League of Nations,
IFTU cooperated with the Labour and Socialist International (LSI), an
organization which united labour and socialist political parties and was
created as a successor to the Second International at a congress in
Hamburg in 1923. The LSIs influence was mainly of a propagandist or
educational nature, but it was influential in facilitating joint action by
socialist delegates in League of Nations deliberations.165
Even more influential at the League of Nations was the International
Chamber of Commerce. As Ridgeway has noted, as early as January,
1922, it had been established that the Secretariat of the Economic Section
of the League would consult the International Chamber as the representative of business men.166 The ICC was invited to send consultants to
numerous League of Nations conferences in the 1920s, such as the 1923
International Conference on the Simplification of Customs Formalities,
the Final Act of which bore the signatures not only of representatives of
governments but also of the ICC.167 Given perceived shared interests in
peace and economic stability, the ICC and IFTU were happy to cooperate in the promotion of economic disarmament, such as at the League
of Nations World Economic Conference of 1927, at which the League
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such as the ICA, and to monitor the outcomes, of which a Consultative

Committee including INGO representatives was appointed.168 The ICC
played a particularly important role in the development of the Dawes
Plan: Francis Delaisi argued that the Dawes Plan was really the work of
the International Chamber of Commerce what thirty-two diplomatic
conferences with the help of countless meetings of ambassadors and
interviews between heads of governments were unable to achieve, has
been done by a private business organization.169 Considered to be a world
parliament of business,170 it also created in 1923 its own world court of
business, the International Court of Commercial Arbitration, which
facilitated the settlement of sixteen international disputes among businessmen within the first four months of operation.171 The ICC also facilitated the development of international standards, such as in respect of
uniform bills of lading.172
The work of the ICC and other INGOs such as the IEC towards standardization was accompanied from 1926 by that of the International
Federation of National Standardization Associations. Although this organization did not survive the Second World War and found it difficult to
overcome the divisions between advocates of metric and imperial measures, its contributions included standards for paper sizes (A1, A2, A3,
A4 etc.), and the use of nano to refer to 109, and the application of sound
to motion pictures.173
New technological developments, such as motion pictures, radio and
aircraft, led to the formation of a range of new business associations after
the First World War. The International Air Traffic Association (IATA),
created by six airlines at The Hague in 1919, played an important role in
standardizing travel documents and technical norms, and in organizing
timetables and connecting flights.174 With a 500-fold increase in the
number of radio transmitters between 1920 and 1925, the International
Broadcasting Union (IBU) was set up in 1925; it divided wavelengths in
Europe to prevent interference in the Plan of Geneva, which formed
the basis for subsequent intergovernmental radio conventions, and the
IBU set up in 1927 a sort of air police to monitor the wave lengths
being used by broadcasters.175
Independent non-governmental initiatives were also pioneered by environmental INGOs in the 1920s. The organization now known as the
International Tree Foundation, for instance, set up in 1924 by St Barbe
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Committee for Bird Preservation (1922, the precursor to BirdLife International, the Worlds largest partnership of conservation organisations),177 the International Bureau of Societies for the Protection of
Animals and Anti-Vivisection Societies (1925), and the International
Humanitarian Bureau of Animal Lovers (1928). Although INGOs took
part in several international environmental conferences in the interwar
years, their impact was limited.178 Nevertheless, the educational activities of organizations such as the International Humanitarian Bureau of
Animal Lovers, which desired to show the civilising influence and importance of the movement for the protection of animals and humane education in relation to human character and international peace,179 are
worth noting.
Amongst the most prominent aspects of INGO activities in the 1920s
was the promotion of what at the time was often termed moral disarmament, and what Akira Iriye has subsequently described as cultural
internationalism a variety of activities undertaken to link countries
and peoples through the exchange of ideas and persons, through scholarly cooperation, or through efforts at facilitating cross-national understanding.180 Particular effort was dedicated to the revision of textbooks,
including a Franco-German international institute for textbook revision
in the cause of peace, formed in 1926 and based in Amsterdam.181 Iriyes
key example of an organization dedicated to cultural internationalism is
the Institute of Pacific Relations, which was set up in Honolulu in 1925
to study the conditions of life of the Pacific peoples with a view to the
improvement of their mutual relations.182 Although educational and
research activities such as these were widespread in the 1920s, not all
educational and research INGOs in this period promoted cultural internationalism, the most notorious example being the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations, established in 1924.
Cultural internationalism was a component of the exceptionally diverse
international peace movement, in which participated a vast array of sectors of transnational civil society in the decade following the First World
War, in addition to organizations for which the promotion of peace was
their primary purpose. Given their direct experience of the violence of
the First World War, ex-service personnels INGOs were central to the
large secondary peace movement that developed in the 1920s.183 The
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instance, described its main object as the prospect of peace.184 This organization was joined in 1925 by the International Conference of Associations of Disabled Soldiers and Ex-Servicemen (CIAMAC), with a
membership of 2.5 million by 1929, which (unlike FIDAC) sought to
unite allied and defeated ex-service personnel in the promotion of FrancoGerman rapprochement.185
Most of the principal sectors of transnational civil society in the 1920s
dedicated at least part of their activities to the promotion of peace. In
the case of the womens movement, for instance, the ICW convened an
international conference on the causes of war in 1924, in conjunction
with the British Empire Exhibition in London, and in 1927 the IAW
convened a peace study conference in Amsterdam.186 In respect of the
labour movement, IFTU organized a World Peace Congress in The
Hague in 1922, and the LSI conducted a mass petition campaign for disarmament in 1929.187
A key aspect of the promotion of peace in Europe in the 1920s was
the development of organized pan-Europeanism. At the core of this
movement was Austrian Count Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi,
who argued that between the national period of humanity and the
period that will come one day of the organisation of the whole world as
a single federation of States, we must pass through a continental period,
a time when narrow national patriotism changes into patriotism for the
whole world.188 He set up in 1923 the International Pan-European Union
which was joined in 1926 by the Association for European Cooperation
to promote a united Europe to prevent war, to prevent economic ruin,
[and] to defend Europe from the Bolshevik danger.189
The principal INGOs of the primary peace movement of the interwar
period differed considerably from those preceding the First World War.
Although organizations such as the International Peace Bureau and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union continued to operate, their activities were
dwarfed by those of newer bodies, such as the International Federation
of League of Nations Societies and the Womens International League
for Peace and Freedom, which were particularly adept at lobbying the
institutions of the League of Nations. The IFLNS, for example, sent a
delegation to be received by the President of the League of Nations
Assembly each year from 1923; had its resolutions printed in the League
of Nations Assembly Journal; and successfully lobbied for the circulation
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Secretariat to the members of the League of Nations Council.190
With Geneva being the seat of the League of Nations, the hub of
INGO activity in the 1920s had shifted to there from Brussels. Numerous INGOs, such as WILPF and WSCF, chose to relocate to Geneva.
Others, such as the Friends International Service and the ICW, set up
special offices in Geneva to lobby the League of Nations. Several new
organizations for the study of international affairs were set up in Geneva
in the 1920s, such as the Geneva Research Centre and the Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies, both established in
1920. At the end of the decade, the Federation of International SemiOfficial and Private Institutions (FIIG) was founded in Geneva to promote the common interests of the INGOs based there, which had
multiplied tenfold between 1920 and 1926.191 FIIG aimed in particular
to secure privileges for INGO representatives from the cantonal authorities and from the League of Nations, such as in respect of access to
observers seats and League of Nations documentationfacilities that
were later to become aspects of consultative status for INGOs at the
United Nations.192
The Handbook of International Organisations published in 1929 by the
League of Nations contained entries for 478 international organizations,
of which more than nine-tenths were non-governmental.193 Approximately 300 INGOs had been established during the 1920s alone.194 Not
only had the number of INGOs grown substantially, but so too had their
size: the International Co-operative Alliance, which in 1913 had 2 million members, claimed by 1929 a membership of 56 million people with
a capital of just under 1 billion.195 Many INGOs had exerted significant influence in the 1920s, with international agreements as varied as
the Dawes Plan and the Declaration on the Rights of the Child stemming largely from non-governmental initiatives. During the 1920s,
INGOs had not only influenced intergovernmental policy, but also carried out independent policy initiatives of their own in a diverse range of
fields including business arbitration, environmental conservation, humanitarian assistance and protection of minorities.
The expanded scale and influence of INGOs in the 1920s took place
in the context of technological, economic, social and political developments, towards many of which INGOs themselves in part contributed.
Technological developments that improved international communica
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tions in this decade, such as radio broadcasting and air travel, were accompanied by new INGOs like the IBU and IATA, which played a key role
in their governance. The context of post-war economic recovery was in
part facilitated by INGO initiatives such as the ICCs role in the Dawes
Plan. Also important were wider social and political developments, such
as the enhanced political role of women in many countries; as one feminist pamphlet published in 1915 argued, an increased role for woman
in political life was significant because she has neither part nor share in
the slaughter of humanity, and she may speak where man dare not
because to her has fallen the task of bringing into the world those human
souls and bodies which in war are but food for cannon, [she] is able to
realize what man is not able.196 The context of the First World War was
particularly important in the mobilization of INGOs in the decade following the armistice, given both the short-term humanitarian consequences of the conflict that many INGOs aimed to address, and the
long-term desire to prevent the wars recurrence which, through their
international work, many INGOs aimed to render possible. The spread
of democratic institutions at the national level in many countries following the First World War provided greater scope for associational activities, both national and transnational, and the Wilsonian ideals associated
with the 1919 Paris peace settlement provided legitimacy for many of
the goals pursued by INGOs in the following decade. Amongst the most
important contextual factors of all was the work of the League of Nations
in Geneva, with Alfred Zimmern arguing in 1929 that the League of
Nations had brought to the table both new subjects of international discussion and new types of men to deal with them, including non-
governmental experts nominated by responsible international bodies,
such for instance as the International Chamber of Commerce.197
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In the opening years of the 1930s, the secretary of the Quaker International Centre in Geneva (and later chairman of the International
Consultative Group), Bertram Pickard, observed that Geneva had become
the worlds capital the most important and strategic centre for private international organisations of every sort and size.198 By this time,
he argued, the galaxy of INGOs now in existence covered every conceivable fieldas well as some almost inconceivable! ranging as they
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do from big and powerful organisations like the Red Cross and the InterParliamentary Union, to the obscure and sometimes dubious organisation with high-sounding programme, imposing letter-head, a Secretary
and President perhaps andthat is all!199 In this context, as in the opening years of the twentieth century, components of transnational civil society were developing ambitions that exceeded their means. Pickard noted
how at the turn of the decade Paul Otlet of the Union of International
Associations was putting forward an ambitious proposal for what he calls
a Mundaneum at Geneva which would comprise a great University,
Exhibition, Library, and House of International Organisations
designed to be a scientific, documentary and educational World Centre,
representative of organised humanity as distinct from the organisation
of Governments in the League of Nationsa resurrection of his proposals for a world centre in Brussels from 1911 to 1913.200 The following paragraphs will explore the development in the early 1930s of large
transnational coalitions of INGOs, especially around the World Disarmament Conference of 19324, which made grand claims with respect
to their representativeness. This chapter will then conclude with a discussion of how, as the 1930s developed, INGOs lost influence at the
League of Nations, became increasingly exploited by governments, and
fragmented along the geopolitical divisions of the period.
The initial years of the 1930s witnessed the continuation of many of
the trends with respect to the expansion of transnational civil society that
had taken place in the 1920s. The rate of organizational formation
remained high in these years, and included significant new womens organizations in 1930 such as Equal Rights International, the International
Federation of Business and Professional Women and the Pan-American
Womens Association. The continued expansion of transnational civil
society beyond Europe in this period is reflected in the convening in
January 1931 of the All-Asian Womens Conference in Lahore, which
was originated by Mrs. Cousins, International Representative of the
Womens Indian Association of Madras after her world tour, and which
sent a representative to liaise with the League of Nations in Geneva.201
The continuing development of inter-organizational cooperation among
INGOs in the same years is reflected in the creation of a Liaison
Committee of Womens International Organizationsincluding the
International Council of Women, the International Alliance of Women
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in order to render possible special conferences or demonstrations to be

held jointly when matters of international importance arise.202
The single most significant international issue to transnational civil
society at the beginning of the 1930s was the pursuit of international
disarmament through the League of Nations, which was organizing the
World Disarmament Conference due to open in February 1932. No
sooner had the Liaison Committee of Womens International Organizations transformed itself from a temporary to a permanent organization in February 1931, than it decided that it should concentrate its
activities for the present year on work to ensure the success of the Disarmament Conference, and set up a Disarmament Committee of
Womens International Organizations for this purpose.203 It was joined
that year by Disarmament Committees of Christian, Students and
League of Nations Associations, as well as a Joint Disarmament Commission established by the International Federation of Trade Unions and
the Labour and Socialist International.204 The following year there were
also established inter-organizational councils of US, British and French
NGOs based in Geneva.205
At the opening of the World Disarmament Conference in February
1932, each of the transnational Disarmament Committees took part in
what was billed as an event unique in the history of mankinda special
session of the official conference at which the delegates accredited from
fifty nations sat in their assigned places and listened to the voice of 200
million people united in the demand for international peace, and for freedom from the heavy load of arms under which the world is now groaning.206 The delegates were presented with what may have been the largest
international petition ever to have been circulated in terms of the proportion of the worlds population that signed it: the petition demanding
the success of the World Disarmament Conference circulated by the
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, which acquired
the signatures of more than 12 million people in more than fifty territories, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ceylon, Chile,
Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Jamaica,
Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Nigeria,
Palestine, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, the USA and
numerous European countries.207 They also heard from representatives
from each of the Disarmament Committees of Christian, League of
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League for the Rights of Man and Citizenship, the Labour and Socialist International and the International Federation of Trade Unions.208 The
journal produced jointly by the leadership of many of these organizations
to cover the proceedings of the World Disarmament Conference claimed
that at this special session of the Conference, the public opinion of the
world so often rightly or wrongly invoked, was in evidence.209
In July 1932, each of the Disarmament Committees, together with
CIAMAC, joined forces to form an International Consultative Group
(for Peace and Disarmament), which with a claimed combined membership of 100 million people described itself as the largest and most effective effort to mobilize public peace opinion yet attempted in the realm
of peace organisation. Never before has there been an international coordinated effort on so wide and effective a scale.210 This organizations
principal achievement was a coordinated global demonstration for disarmament in October 1933, with over 1,000 demonstrations for disarmament taking place in each of France, the United Kingdom and the
United States, and over 6,000 organizations in thirty countries sending
messages of support to a mass demonstration in Geneva on 15 October
1933, to which the British and French Prime Ministers, the Chairman
of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the Soviet Union and the US
Secretary of State all sent messages of support.211 However, these efforts
came too late: the day before the mass demonstration in Geneva, Hitler
had already pulled Germany out of both the World Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations.
Many statesmen felt that INGOs had too much influence in the deliberations of the World Disarmament Conference.212 The numerous inconsistencies in their propaganda for disarmament led statesmen such as
British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to complain in October
1932 that INGO leaders should take the trouble just to think out what
are the problems of negotiation as well as the joys of declaration.213 When
the World Disarmament Conference reconvened in 1933, there was no
special session for INGOs to present to delegates their demands; the
International Consultative Group noted in March 1933 that the delegates were not sympathetic to such public demonstrations and were tired
of expressions of public opinion.214 Claims to represent the public opinion of the world by coalitions of INGOs lobbying the World Disarmament Conference were by then looking increasingly hollow.

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As Charnovitz has pointed out, After 1932 only a few new episodes
of NGO involvement occurred within the League.215 Amongst the most
notable occurred in 1935 when in response to the request of the Latin
American delegations, the Council invited fifteen transnational womens organisations to present statements on the nationality and status of
women.216 The Latin American request was in response to the efforts
of US feminists working through the Inter-American Commission of
Women217 that had been set up in 1928 at the sixth Pan-American
Conference.218 As Carol Miller has noted, Throughout 1936 and 1937
the League received information from member states and womens
organisations that generated the publication of several hundred pages
of data on the worldwide status women,219 but efforts towards League
of Nations conventions on womens rights and nationality proved to be
unsuccessful.220
In his pioneering study of INGOs, White found In the latter years of
the Leagues existence, considerable dissatisfaction among the INGOs
regarding what they considered to have been a growing tendency of the
League to withdraw from collaboration and co-operation.221 A particularly significant development occurred in 1936 when the non-governmental assessors were removed from the League of Nations Committee
on Social Questions.222 White posited that this may have been due to
the fact that as certain ways of doing things became firmly established,
officials became more and more reluctant to accept proposals which would
upset the established routine or which would mean additional work.223
Pickard argued that INGOs at the time believed that it was because as
Munich approached, governments and inter-governmental agencies
tended to cold shoulder NGOs as a bit of a nuisance.224
Before the decline of INGO relations with the League of Nations, the
Great Depression already had a detrimental impact. White found that
beginning in 1932, the great decline in income slowed down the extension of activities for several years.225 From 1932 onwards, the rate of new
INGO formation was slower than in the 1920s: the number of INGOs
established in the second half of the 1930s was little more than half the
figure for the late 1920s.226 Although several significant new INGOs
were established, including the International Youth Hostel Federation
in 1932, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations in
1933, the International Union Against Cancer in 1934, Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services in 1935 and the Ford Foundation in 1936,227
many of the new INGOs of this period reflected fragmentary trends.
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Amongst the international organizations with the highest rate of new

formations in the 1930s were international cartels. According to one
contemporary estimate: of 81 cartels surveyed in 1936, 17 of them were
formed in 19302 and 28 in 19335 (in contrast to 27 in the 1920s).228
The League of Nations cited estimates of the total number of international cartels in the interwar years that were far greater, about 1,200 by
the late 1930s, and quoted estimates claiming that 42 per cent of world
trade between 1929 and 1937 was cartelized or influenced by looselyknit associations or conferences.229 It outlined the different perspectives on international cartels, from those who viewed them as public
dangers, disrupting the competitive forces of the market, working for
the sole benefit of their members, disregarding the common interest,
and damaging world trade and the world economy to those who
regarded international cartels as attempts to establish order in an
otherwise chaotic situation, putting an end to the ruinous struggle for
export outlets by granting to each member country a certain share in
the worlds markets.230
Hara and Kudo claim that it is within the process of economic reconstruction after the First World War that the full-scale establishment of
international cartels can first be observed.231 Amongst the factors responsible for the development of international cartels in this period they cite
the imbalance that arose between production and consumption caused
by the construction or enlargement of production facilities to meet the
urgent demand that arose during the war, the international agreements
concerning patent rights and production method exchanges in this period,
and the intensification of international competition leading to efforts to
set up international cartels in order to preserve their domestic markets for
domestic producers.232 In the 1930s, the last of these motivations appeared
to predominate. Hexner noted that the National Socialist Government of
Germany looked upon all international economic mechanisms as instruments with which to increase its war potential and to weaken its future
adversaries and quoted (with a degree of scepticism) authors attributing
the destruction of the Weimar Republic to cartels.233
During the interwar years the practice of state manipulation of INGOs
became exceptionally prevalent, extending far beyond the use of international cartels by National Socialist Germany.234 The practice was parti
cularly evident among the member branches of the International
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time to be the pre-eminent INGO for international peace in the interwar years, the IFLNS managed to acquire member branches in forty countries by 1930.235 Some member branches had considerable memberships
and independence from government: with a peak membership of 406,868
in 3,040 branches in 1931, the League of Nations Union in Great Britain
was undoubtedly the most substantial peace association in history.236
Elsewhere, however, the state of the League of Nations associations was
very different. They were commonly dependent on their respective governments for assistance: in the case of the Czech League of Nations movement, the Czech government is reported to have supported both a
national Czech League of Nations Union (run from the offices of the
Prague Fascist Club and whose leadership was reported to have no faith
in the League or international cooperation and no records of membership)237 as well as more pacificist League of Nations societies within the
country in order to play them off against each other as it saw fit.238 In
many countries, including in Czechoslovakia, different League of Nations
Societies represented different ethnic groups, and a particularly common
practice was to exploit League of Nations societies in the pursuit of the
demands of different nationalities across central and eastern Europe. In
the case of the Bulgarian League of Nations society, for instance, the organization was reported by the IFLNS to have been composed largely of
emigrants from territory detached from Bulgaria in the Treaty of Neuilly
and was rather a Society for minorities and treaty revision rather than a
full collaborator in our work for the League of Nations.239
Governmental manipulation of private associations was evident long
before the crises of the 1930s. Rosenberg has argued that in the 1920s
the US government undertook vigorous steps to shape the international impact of private citizens and groups and especially under Hoover
often informally awarded a private group or corporation official blessing or monopolistic privileges in return for carrying out some element
of American foreign policy.240 Elaborating on this argument, Suri claims
that this resulted in restructuring the economies of Latin American and
Asian countries along lines that benefited exporters in the United States
and disempowered local citizens.241
In the 1930s, while the US government turned increasingly away from
these practices and towards official cultural and economic agencies,242
more generally INGOs became increasingly caught up in the international contest among Fascist, Communist and capitalist states. Within
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Germany from 1925, Hoffman has argued the far Right permeated bourgeois and workers associational culture, which had been predominantly
liberal or socialist before 1914. In other words, the Nazis conquered
German civil society from within.243 Following the assumption of power
by Hitler in Germany in 1933, Mussolini believed that fascism has
become a universal phenomenon The dominant forces of the nineteenth century, democracy, socialism, liberalism have been exhausted
the new political and economic forms of the twentieth-century are fascist.244 In June 1933, he set up the Comitati dazione per lUniversalit
di Roma (CAUR) as a Fascist rival to the Communist International,
aiming to cull statements of allegiance from various foreign movements
calling themselves fascist, and to integrate these fascisms into a loose
organization which paid fealty to the genius of Mussolini and the leadership of Italian fascism.245 CAUR organized an international congress
of Fascist groups in Montreux in December 1934, attended by delegates
from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania,
the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland, as well as Italy.246 CAURs director claimed that nothing
prevents all our nationalisms from proclaiming the universality of fascist doctrine on certain fundamental points And so the super-national
idea harmonizes perfectly with the national idea.247 Leeden has argued
that, at this congress, There was virtually unanimous support for the
notion of an International which would unite the forces of youth on the
continent against the dual enemies of Bolshevik materialism and capitalist egotism, and the Congress provided for the creation of a permanent commission for universal fascism to be the Secretariat for the
Fascist International, a supreme co-ordinating committee for fascistic
propaganda and communication.248
Mussolinis ability to charm international youth organizations in the
mid 1930s appeared to be considerable, and in May 1935 he was apparently recognized as the spiritual head of youth by the leadership the
International Confederation of Students, Pax Romana, and the Federation of Jewish Students.249 However, as Morgan has pointed out, the
experience of the Montreux congress seems to provide further and conclusive evidence of the impossibility of organising a fascist International:
the congress split on the issue of race, and the permanent commission
met twice only, in early 1935.250 CAUR lost the support of the Italian
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CAUR were dealing were not in the least interested in participating in

a great work of fascist indoctrination, but only in Italian lire.251
As Morgan has noted, No German Nazi representative attended
Montreux and, apparently, nobody from Germany was invited.252 National
Socialist Germany financed alternative projects, such as the International
Action of Nationalisms, which held an international meeting in December 1934 in Zurich and had a membership including Dutch, English,
French, German, Irish and US representatives: its oxymoronic slogan was
Nationalists of all countries, unite!253
The best-known exploitation of an INGO by Nazi Germany came in
the form of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Arnd Krger has described how
International Olympic Committee founder Coubertin welcomed the
Nazi Olympics as fulfilling his ideals [and] several aspects of the 1936
Olympics have become essential parts of future Games, such as the torch
relay, [and] the Olympic bell (with the swastika) alongside the Olympic
ringsa harbinger of corporate sponsorship.254 The German Olympic
Committee that was supposed to organize the Games was under the
direct control of the Reichssportfhrer, Hans von Tschammer und Osten,
whose storm troopers had killed several workers sportsmen and children.255 A Propaganda Committee was established as a part of the Games
Organizing Committee and its concerted propaganda effort made
the Olympic Games of Berlin the first truly modern Games the first
live television coverage of any sports meet was in Berlin at the time of
the Olympics [and the] interior propaganda was so successful that
until the early 1970s very little criticism was voiced against these Games
inside Germany.256 Krger concludes that the Nazis used the cover of
the Olympic excitement to carry out the normal and more questionable
affairs of state and as the party that accompanied the Olympic pause
continued, so more quietly were the concentration camps filled.257 While
opposition to the Berlin Games was expressed through organizations
such as the International Committee for the Defence of the Olympic
Idea, the boycott movement over the issue of the treatment of Jews proved
to be a failure258 and the International Olympic Committee President
hailed the Nazi Games as the best ever.259
Much of the opposition to Fascism in the 1930s was organized through
Communist front organizations. Willi Muenzenberg, founder of the
Communist Youth International and architect of the front organizations,260 chaired the First International Anti-Fascist Congress in Berlin
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in March 1929, which aimed at rallying the broad masses of the workers and the intellectuals in all countries to mass action against Fascism.261
Three years later, on the initiative of the political commission of the Exe
cutive Committee of the Communist International, a conference was
held in the same city in March 1932 to plan a campaign against imperialist war, which would become the starting-point of an effort to win
over new masses by party slogans.262 The result is what became known
as the Amsterdam-Pleyel movement, named after the International
Congress against War held in Amsterdam in August 1932, which established the World Committee against Imperialist War;263 and the European Anti-Fascist Workers Congress, held in the Pleyel Hall in Paris in
June 1933, which created the European Workers Anti-Fascist Union.264
The organizations established by these conferences merged in August
1933 to form the Joint World Committee against Imperialist War and
Fascism, later abbreviated to World Committee against War and Fascism,
which aimed no lower than to co-ordinate the actions in the whole world
against war and fascism and appealed to the hand and brain workers in
all parties, the trade unions of all tendencies, to the peasants and members of the middle classes, to the youth and the women.265 The World
Committee organized several international anti-Fascist congresses in
1933 and 1934, aiming to coordinate the anti-Fascist work of youth,
women and students, respectively, and spawned an array of committees
such as the Womens World Committee against War and Fascism and
the World Students Committee against War and Fascism. Although
commonly regarded as a fellow travelling organization of limited cre
dibility,266 the World Committee achieved some success in appealing
beyond the Communist movement, counting among its British women
supporters Vera Brittain, Charlotte Despard, Sylvia Pankhurst, Margaret Storm Jameson and Ellen Wilkinson.267
Another front organization formed in 1933 that was to attract a wide
array of international notables was the World Committee for the Relief
of the Victims of German Fascism.268 This organization was set up by
Muenzenburg following the burning of objectionable books by the Nazis
in May 1933,269 and was to become well-known for circulating The Brown
Book of the Hitler Terror, which contained vivid images of people murdered by the Nazis and purported to prove that It was the morphia-fiend
Goering who set fire to the Reichstag.270 Muenzenberg biographer Sean
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short, a fraudulent hack job, until the 1960s most historians adopted the
Brown Books thesis about Goebbels planning and executing the Reichstag
fire by sending a team of conspirators through Goerings secret tunnel.271 Muenzenbergs Commission of Inquiry into the Origins of the
Reichstag Fire, which staged a counter-trial in London in September
1933 to support the Brown Books case, is also credited with having provided the first international citizens tribunal.272
Following the success of his Brown Book campaign, Muenzenberg
seemed in many ways to be losing his political touch.273 The development of the Popular Front in 1934, however, provided the context for
continued proliferation of Communist front organizations into the later
1930s. The peace movement was amongst the most affected transnational
social movements, especially following the entry of the Soviet Union into
the League of Nations in 1934. With the work of the International Consultative Group fading into irrelevance following the collapse of the
World Disarmament Conference, a new effort to coordinate the peace
work of multiple INGOs came in the form of the International Peace
Campaign (IPC), formally launched in March 1936. Claiming in the
late 1930s to be at the present time the most powerful expression of
international public opinion, the IPC achieved the support of forty
INGOs with a combined membership estimated to encompass 400 million people.274 Supporting organizations included ICG members, such
as CIAMAC, the IFLNS and the Disarmament Committee of Womens
International Organizations; the International Co-operative Alliance;
the International Alliance of Women; international trade secretariats;
the World Jewish Congress; and numerous international peace societies.275 It had national committees in forty countries, and its international
congress in Brussels in September 1936 brought together 4,100 delegates and was hailed by Britains Daily Herald as the greatest peace congress in history.276 The IPC promoted a four-point programme
emphasizing the sanctity of treaty obligations, disarmament, League of
Nations actions for the remedying of international conditions that might
lead to war, and especially strengthening the League of Nations for the
prevention and stopping of war by the more effective organization of
Collective Security and Mutual Assistance.277 Although able to coordinate substantial transnational campaigns in favour of collective security
and boycotting Japanese goods in 19378, the IPC swiftly collapsed the
following year after the announcement of the NaziSoviet Pact.278 The
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international bureau of the IPC in Geneva was predominantly staffed by

Communist agents, including its principal organizer Louis Dolivet (previously of the World Committee against War and Fascism), who aimed
to ensure that the organizations efforts were consistent with the objectives of Soviet foreign policy.279
As well as stimulating the proliferation of front organizations in the
late 1930s, the growing number of Fascist governments in this period
also had a detrimental effect upon the membership of more independent
INGOs. White argued that the rise of Fascism in Germany led to the
withdrawal of important national groups from certain organizations,
especially those dealing with international relations, labor, reform, and
religious matters, including the loss of German membership of IFTU
in 1933 and Rotary International in 1937, although German groups continued to participate in cartels and in organizations concerned with economic, scientific and health questions, sports, and general technical or
administrative matters.280 The explanation for the prohibition of German
membership of Rotary International in 1937 provided by the Nazi Chief
Justice Walter Buch was that the ban was based primarily on the form
of its organization. Rotary spreads around the earth. It is divided into a
large number of districts organized under a common President
With that arises a condition in which a foreigner may give orders to a
community in Germany which might produce conflicts of conscience in
Germans respecting their duties to their nation.281 Especially following
the 1937 war, Japanese members of INGOs were confronted with a similar situation.282
Although many INGOs found their memberships squeezed as a result
of the ascent of Fascism, a significant number strengthened their resolve
in the face of the developing threat.283 Having lost 5 million members in
1933, IFTU subsequently doubled its membership by 1937, as its remaining member organizations conducted effective recruitment drives and
new groups joined, such as Indian unions in 1934 and the American
Federation of Labor in 1937.284 While much of the movement against
Fascism became polarized as a result of penetration by front organizations, the common threat stimulated among liberal INGOs a process of
interchange and of deepening our consciousness of belonging together.285
The atrocities of Fascist governments also stimulated the formation of
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save anti-Nazi leaders targeted by the Gestapo, and to guide those in
imminent danger to safety in free countries.286 The International Institute of Social History, for its part, was established in the Netherlands in
1935 to act as a safehouse for radical and working class literature, not
least of all from Germany.287 The geographical scope of its collections
expanded during the 1930s according to the further expansion of
national-socialism.288
A particularly large number of organizations were established to confront the persecution of Jews in Germany, such as the Non-Sectarian
Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights and World Jewish Relief
in 1933. Three years later the First World Jewish Congress took place in
Geneva and formed a permanent organization, the purposes of which
were to include promotion of Jewish representation to the outside world
the new emancipation economic equality immigration possibilities struggle against Hitlerism [and] legal and economic defence.289
The developing repression and bureaucratization in the Soviet Union
in the 1930s was also confronted by new INGO activity. The best-known
is the work of the international Trotskyite movement, beginning with
the formation of the International Left Opposition in Paris in April
1930, which proclaimed that the regime dominant in Russia and the
[Communist] International are moving towards catastrophe.290 Having
initially considered itself to be a fraction within the Communist International, by 1933 Bauer of the International Left Opposition adhered
to a declaration on the necessity and principles of a new International
on account of the slavish dependence of the sections of the Comintern
on the Soviet leadership and the Cominterns becoming not only incapable of fulfilling its historic role but also more and more of an obstacle in the way of the revolutionary movement.291 The Fourth International
(World Party of the Socialist Revolution) was eventually established at
a congress in France in September 1938.292 From the outset Trotsky
admitted that we are a weak International we have no reason to boast
that we are strong, but we are what we are.293
With transnational civil society in Europe split by the ideological divisions of capitalism, Communism and Fascism, transnational civil society elsewhere showed growing independence in the 1930s. The
organization that was and remains the leading arbiter in questions of
Arabic terminology, the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, was
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established in 1932.294 This period also witnessed the activities of the

World Society in Shanghai, the co-founder of whichLee Shih-tseng
created the Sino-International Library in 1933.295 The Islamic Research
Association, created in February 1933 in Mumbai, was mainly at the initiative and through the efforts of the famous scholar of Islamic studies
and Arabicist, Mr. Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee,296 and in 1935 the International Academy of Indian Culture in New Delhi was established by
another eminent Indian professor, Raghuvira.297 Japan witnessed a number of new foundations: the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1933 to promote
research into applied chemistry,298 the Society for Oriental Researches
in 1935, the Arachnological Society of East Asia and the Society for
Research in Asiatic Music in 1936, and the Institute of Oriental Classics in 1938.299
With respect to religious INGOs, in Cameroon in 1934 the African
Protestant Church was created with the initial aim to conduct church
services, and have church publications including the Bible available in
the local language (and not the Bulu used by the missionaries); it was
to evolve to embrace members of a wide range of ethnic groups
Ngoumba, Batanga, some Pygmies, Bamileke, and even Bulu.300 Two
years later, the Divine Life Society was founded in India by Swami Sivananda Saraswati, whose work popularized the belief that advaita vedanta
contains the spiritual truth underlying all religions, in a similar fashion
to Ramakrishna Math.301 In 1938, Rissho Kosei-kaithe Society of the
Community of Believers in Accordance with Buddhist Principleswas
created in Japan by two former members of Reiyukai,302 aiming at the
revival of true Buddhism as the means to bring full enlightenment to
every individual.303
As for regional organizations, by far the most impressive growth in the
1930s took place in South America. The expansion in the number of Latin
American womens organizations was particularly notable, and included
the Club Internacional de Mujeres in 1933, the United Women of the
Americas in 1934, and the Unin Femenina Ibero-Americana in 1936.304
South America also played an important role in the development of
INGOs at the global level: amongst the best-known examples is Uruguays facilitation of FIFAs first World Cup in 1930. As Goldblatt has
noted, Uruguay was the only country prepared to put its money on the
table, having won the football event in the 1928 Olympic Games.305
When confronted with the pressures that culminated in the Second
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1930s some of the most ambitious efforts to bridge global divisions.

Amongst the most significant was the agreement by leading ecumenical
organizations in 1937 to unite in a body representative of the Churches
and caring for the interests of each movement,306 although it took until
1948 for the World Council of Churchesthe broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical
movementto be established.307 An even bolder organization was created in 1936: the World Congress of Faiths, which aimed towards that
essential basis of all religions upon which any firm World Fellowship can
be founded and the peace of the world secured.308
Possibly the most ambitious objectives were put forward by the first
organizations promoting world government. The pioneer organization
in this field is generally held to be the Campaign for World Government, set up in 1937 in the United States by Rosika Schwimmer and
Lola Maverick Lloyd, which published calls for the preliminary steps
necessary for a representative World Convention to draft the constitution for an all-inclusive Federation of Nations.309 The following year
saw the establishment in the United Kingdom of Federal Union, which
experienced an arduous struggle for recognition. The project was ridiculed by nine out of ten people talked to; the tenth expressed sceptical
sympathy.310 However, after the publication of Clarence Streits Union
Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic
in 1939, Federal Unions popularity increased significantly, attracting
2,000 members by July 1939.311
The position of the world federalist movement in 1939 was in contrast to many of the other sectors of transnational civil society. In May
of that year, Thodore Ruyssen, secretary general of the International
Federation of League of Nations Societies, produced a paper addressing
the question: Is unofficial international collaboration passing through a
crisis?312 He argued that, following the adjournment of the World Disarmament Conference in 1934, despite an increase in the number of
INGOs, in vain through the past five decisive years have efforts been
sustained by the unofficial organisations; in vain have they communicated to the League of Nations and to the Governments the resolutions
and appeals of their countless congresses.313 He observed that the meagre fruits of unofficial international activity could not be attributed to
the hostility of the totalitarian states alone, since even in the countries
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tutions the influence of private initiative, mainly in the field of international policy, is today less efficacious than it was just a short time ago.314
When he surveyed the leaders of pre-eminent INGOs at the time,
Ruyssen found considerable agreement upon the factors they believed to
be responsible for this decline. There was a concentration on the external
political environment in which INGOs operated, such as the way in which
gradually in every country more and more functions are concentrated in
the State which feels all the more in a position to make light of popular
grievances or aspirations. They also noted how governments needed to
make decisions rapidly given the speed of events in the late 1930s, as well
as the increasing degree of governmental control of the media, and the
greater information at the disposal of governments in contrast to private
citizens. There was also acknowledgement of the role of transnational civil
society itself: a number of respondents argued that in the democratic
countries, the Governments put themselves in a situation of obvious inferiority to the totalitarian states if they let themselves be buffeted about
by fluctuations of an unstable public opinion deeply divided against itself
and that the mediocre success of propaganda undertaken on international
questions has had a depressing effect in certain circles.315
Factors which had previously facilitated the expansion of transnational
civil society in the short term in the 1920s had worked in the longer term
to contribute towards the inhibitive economic and political environment
of the 1930s. The economic recovery of the 1920s had been in part underpinned by unsustainable lending, with the encouragement of INGO initiatives such as the ICCs role in the Dawes Plan.316 The post-war
democratizations that had helped open up civil society space had also in
some cases been built upon unsustainable foundations, the proportional
electoral system in Germany for instance facilitating the entry into parliament of extremist political parties.317
The divisions in international politics in the late 1930s reflected the
divisions within and between the components of transnational civil society at the time. That the world had become divided along ideological
lines reflected the success of transnational movements such as that for
international Communism. As for the liberal internationalist movement,
the claims of some of its leaders to represent the public opinion of the
world had underestimated the divisions that existed even before the deterioration of the later 1930s. Furthermore, although liberal internationalists failed to bring about a successful conclusion to the World

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Disarmament Conference, their promotion of disarmament in the 1920s

and early 1930s may have been substantial enough to be one of the factors contributing towards the rejection of proposals for modest German
rearmament put forward by Weimar Germanys last moderate leaders,
an outcome which substantially undermined their positions in Germany.318
Once they had been replaced by Hitlers regime, the residual pro-
disarmament feeling in the remaining liberal states of Europe is claimed
in the words of Winston Churchillto have contributed towards making
these states an easy prey in the build-up to the Second World War by
acting as one of the factors inhibiting their drive to rearm against the
expansionist threat.319
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1939 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the evolution of transnational civil

society from the Second World War until the present day did not follow
a straightforward path of linear expansion.1 Instead, the period witnessed
a complex but broadly cyclical pattern of evolution. The first section of
this chapter commences by discussing how the Second World War had
a similar impact to that of the First, including stimulating the formation
of new INGOs beyond Europe and dealing with the conflicts consequences; and how US-based NGOs played a particularly significant role
in the peace settlement, including the creation of new intergovernmental organizations, and the human rights provisions of the United Nations
Charter. It then explores the way in which divisions in transnational civil
society contributed towards the intensification of international tensions
at the onset of the Cold War, which in turn further divided transnational
civil society along EastWest lines, to be accompanied by divisions on
NorthSouth lines as decolonization took place. The divisions to which
the Cold War and decolonization contributed in turn provided the context for the formation of a new generation of INGOs that were more
geographically dispersed than previously, and that were concerned with
new issues such as nuclear disarmament and bridging the EastWest and
NorthSouth divides. The second part of this chapter explores how this
paradoxical impact of the geopolitical divisions of the Cold War period
helped stimulate considerable expansion of transnational civil society
from the 1960s until the 1980s. It looks at the development of INGOs
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networking forms, growing geographical reach of transnational civil society, the ascent of transnational corporations as targets for transnational
activism, the development of politics beyond the state2 and the role of
transnational civil society in the ending of the Cold War. The final section of this chapter discusses how, in the 1990s, intergovernmental conferences, neo-liberal economic globalization and the internet provided
significant opportunities for transnational civil society, and facilitated the
formation of large transnational coalitions of INGOs, some of which
aimed to adopt more horizontal forms of organization than had been
seen previously, but some of which had ambitions exceeding their means,
not unlike those of the transnational coalitions preceding the two world
wars. This section shows how claims in respect of the development of
global rather than merely transnational civil society in the 1990s proved
to be somewhat hollow given the decline that took place in the subsequent decade. The analysis concludes with a discussion of the potential
turning point which transnational civil society is confronting in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The Second World War, the Onset of the Cold War and the
Division of Transnational Civil Society
The commencement of the Second World War was received as a defeat
for internationalists: the new secretary general of the International
Federation of League of Nations Societies remarked in September 1939
that twenty years of endeavour to substitute the rule of law for the arbitrament of war, to build an international society have been spent in
vain.3 As with the First World War, the Second World War was to have
a greatly detrimental impact upon transnational civil society. The rate of
INGO formation in 1939 was approximately half that of 1938, and
remained at a similarly low level for each of the following five years.4 Organizations as diverse as the Communist International, the Inter-Allied
Federation of Ex-Servicemen, the International Confederation of Students and the International Consultative Group for Peace and Disarmament
failed to survive the conflict.5 Many of the INGOs that endured had to
reduce their activities: the International Alliance of Women, for instance,
had to abandon its London headquarters for financial reasons, to postpone many of its meetings and to transfer its journal to the Womens Publicity Planning Association (which diluted the journals content), in
addition to having several of its leaders killed by the Nazis.6
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In the regions of the world that were relatively unaffected by the war,
on the other hand, new INGOs continued to multiply. The growth rate
in the Americas was particularly high. New formations in 1940 alone
included the Inter-American Bar Association, the Inter-American Statistical Institute, the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology, the
Latin American Society for Plastic Surgery and the Chamber of
Commerce of Latin America. A similar number of inter-American organizations were formed each of the following three years, and in 1944 the
Pan-American Liaison Committee of Womens Organizations was created.7 The opportunity that the conflict in Europe presented for transnational civil society in the Americas is particularly vividly illustrated in the
creation of the Inter-American Statistical Institute in 1940: the war in
Europe was perceived in the Americas to have had such a profound impact
on Europe-based INGOs that it was assumed that many had perished,
including, as Stuart Rice observed, the International Statistical Institute
(ISI, which in fact survives to the present day), so an Inter-American
body was established to carry forward the traditional work of the ISI
within the comparatively peaceful area of North and South America.8
Beyond the Americas, the volume of new INGOs created during the
Second World War was much smaller; but in Africa these included
the East African Dental Association in 1943, and in Asia the Indian
Institute of World Culture in Bangalore in 1945. Of greater significance
were new Islamic INGOs formed during the conflict. The Islamic Cultural
Centre, inaugurated in London in 1944, apparently owed its existence
to the British war cabinets desire in 1940 to pay tribute to the thousands of Indian Muslim soldiers who had died in battle for the British
Empire during the First World War and whose successors were making
a significant contribution to the current war effort.9 The year following
this decision, in the context of the increasing likelihood of Indian independence, Jamaat-e-Islami was established in Lahore, which stated as
its goal the pursuit of ukmat-e-ilhiya, an Islamic state in contrast to
the secular-liberal state promoted by the Muslim League; following the
partition of India, it developed into a transnational network of political
parties promoting this objective across South Asia.10
Some of the most significant new INGOs to be formed during the
Second World War were pan-Arab. During the 1930s, an increasing
number of societies had been created in Egypt promoting a pan-Arab
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ers, such as the Arab Progress Society in 1930, the Society for Arab Unity
and the Committee for the Spread of Arab Culture the following year,
the Arab Bond Society in 1936, and the Association of Arab Unity and
the Bond of Arabism in 1939.11 Pan-Arab organizations formed elsewhere in the 1930s included the Nationalist Action League in Syria in
1933 and al-Muthanna in Iraq in 1935, and in the context of the Palestine
Arab rebellion many of these organizations joined together in 1937 to
form an organization to adopt a nationalist programme of the Arab
nationalist youth from the [Atlantic] Ocean to the [Persian] Gulf .12 In
1940, the Arab Baath (Resurrection) Socialist Party was formed in Syria,
which was to describe itself as a popular national revolutionary movement striving for Arab unity, freedom and socialism,13 and developed
branches in other countries from 1948.14 With the British government
encouraging pan-Arabism during the Second World War, the Arab Union
Club was reformed in Egypt in 1942 and became a society to promote
the combination of all Arabic-speaking territories under one political
government, while each of them would be able to choose the kind of
regime and way of life she pleases.15 It aimed from its outset to form
branches in all Arab countries,16 which it succeeded in doing in Baghdad,
Beirut, Damascus and Jaffa in addition to Cairo.17 Its objectives were
endorsed by the Egyptian Prime Minister, and all of the territories in
which it had branches (except Palestine) were to become founding members of the Arab League.18
Another organization considered to have been a precursor to the Arab
League is the General Arab Womens Federation, which was established
as a result of the Arab Feminist Conference in Cairo in 1944. This conference was organized by the Egyptian Feminist Union leader Huda
Shaarawi, who in 1938 had convened the Eastern Womens Conference
for the Defence of Palestine at which an international Permanent Central
Committee of Women for the Defence of Palestine had been established.19 By 1944, she was promoting the broader objective of a pan-Arab
feminist union to strengthen feminist movements inside individual Arab
countries, while enhancing their participation in the international feminist movement.20 In the early 1940s, pan-Arab professional congresses
also became increasingly frequent,21 and by the end of the war some of
these were transformed into permanent international organizations, such
as the Union of Arab Pharmacists that dates its establishment to 1945.22
In Europe and North America, many of the most significant INGOs
created during the Second World War were established to deal with the
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conflicts humanitarian consequences. Just as the Allied blockade in the

First World War had stimulated the formation of Save the Children in
the UK in 1919, in 1942 the Allied blockade of German-controlled territory in the Second World War was to provoke the formation of what
became Oxfam. The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) was
one of several local Famine Relief Committees set up in Britain in 1942
in response to famine in Greece by religious leaders, Quakers, pacifists
and Idealists, including figures such as Gilbert Murray of the League of
Nations Union. It is said to have started as a political protest group,
which only began to collect funds to aid in the relief of occupied Europe
as a positive contribution towards its main objective, establishing the
principle that there was a primary duty to relieve suffering.23 The initial
objectives of the national Famine Relief Committee set up in May 1942
(five months before the Oxford committee set up in support of it), however, were put very cautiously: To obtain authentic information as to
food conditions in German-controlled or invaded countries; to promote
schemes for the sending of food, vitamins and medical aid into such
countries, wherever control is possible, in co-operation with existing
organisations.24 Across the Atlantic the following year, Catholic Relief
Services was formed in response to President Roosevelts plans for coordinated dissemination of governmental funds for humanitarian relief in
Europe.25 At the end of the war in 1945, they were joined in Great Britain
by Christian Aid, originally known as Christian Reconciliation in Europe;
and in the United States by CARE, originally known as the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, which began life distributing
US army food rations to those in need in Europe.26
Alongside humanitarian relief, an equally important rationale for
INGO formation during the Second World War was the reduction of
the likelihood of another conflict. One perceived avenue towards this
goal was the promotion of intercultural dialogue. In 1941, the East and
West Association was founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl
S. Buck and her second husband, aiming to carry out similar educational
exchange activities between the United States and Asia to those pioneered by the Institute of Pacific Relations.27 The same year saw the establishment of the Council on Intercultural Relations (later renamed
Institute for Intercultural Studies) by US cultural anthropologist Margaret
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vide information that could both hasten victory and provide an optimum
setting for postwar reconstruction.28
Greater in number were the associations promoting a new international organization to replace the League of Nations in the post-war era.
The associations that had promoted world government in the late 1930s
were joined in 1940 by a US Federal Union, formed by Clarence Streit,
and by the World Government Association, also based in the United
States and also aiming to promote world government on democratic
principles.29 The following year World Federation was set up by Ely
Cuthbertson in New York to promote a World Federation Plan that
would promote a global federation consisting of eleven regional federations; and in 1943 the Citizens Conference on International Economic
Union was created to promote free trade, stable currencies and international economic union.30 Following the war in 1945 the Committee to
Frame a World Constitution was organized in Chicago, to promote a
highly ambitious plan for a Federal World Republic with tax-raising and
passport-issuing powers.31
More practical were the numerous organizations set up in the United
States during the conflict that were dedicated to studying the problems
of post-war settlement. The most notable of these was the Commission
to Study the Organization of Peace, established by James T. Shotwell and
Clark M. Eichelberger of the US League of Nations Association in
November 1939, to review the past and build upon the history of the
League of Nations plans for an organization of lasting peace.32 The Commissions members were described as a whos who in international relations scholarship from the fields of education, government, labor and
business.33 The following year John Foster Dulles formed the Federal
Council of Churches Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, to clarify the mind of our churches regarding the moral, political and economic
foundations of an enduring peace.34 In 1941 these organizations were
joined by the Free World Association, organized by Louis Dolivet of the
International Peace Campaign, which aimed towards educating public
opinion for world organization without diminishing sovereignty to the
extent that it would limit or subordinate America or any other country.35 The same year saw the formation by former members of the International Consultative Group of the Institute on World Organization, to
study political, economic, and social problems relating to world organization in order to aid in promoting a durable and just peace,36 and of the
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Post War World Council by former participants in the Keep America

out of the War Congress.37 Numerous organizations of academics
dedicated to the study of post-war peace problems were also set up, such
as the Universities Committee on Post-War International Problems in
1942 and the Institute on Postwar Reconstruction set up at New York
University the following year.38
The preliminary report issued by the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace in November 1940 promoted as the alternative to organization by conquest organization by consent, through international
institutions to preserve human freedom, social justice, economic progress, and political security that would assure a dynamic peace with the
minimum sacrifice of national sovereignty.39 The report advocated not
only international tribunals, international legislative bodies, renunciation
of force and collective security, but also regional organizations, human
and cultural rights in international covenants and economic and social
cooperation.40
Appended to the report was a paper by Walter Lichtenstein which
advocated the distribution of international loans, particularly, those
designed to assist backward [sic] nations in developing their economy
by an international bank that would also distribute funds in times of
crisis to assist nations which cannot by their own effort extricate themselves from financial difficulties.41 Two years later, in December 1942,
the economists and other prominent figures who in 1943 were to form
the Citizens Conference on International Economic Union appealed to
the President and Congress of the United States to promote international economic union through the formation of an international lending agency, a currency stabilization agency, a trade and tariff agency
and a credit and exchange agency.42 By this time, planning for post-war
economic stabilization at the British and US Treasuries had become
advanced, and was to result in the formation of the International Monetary
Fund and World Bank at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. As
G. John Ikenberry has argued, although much of the credit for the establishment of these organizations has been attributed to the ideas and
diplomacy of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White, they were
part of a larger collection of economists and policy specialists extending
beyond government and universities and including organizations such
as the Council on Foreign Relations.43 Shoup and Minter date the first
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and an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to the

Councils Jacob Viners February 1942 proposal for an international
exchange stabilization board and an international bank to handle
short-term transactions not directly concerned with stabilization.44
Since September 1939, the Council on Foreign Relations had
assisted the US Department of State in its post-war planning, and the
Royal Institute of International Affairs played a similar role in the
United Kingdom.45 The Department of State also intended to consult
many other organizations, including groups based outside the US such
as the British League of Nations Union, since it was felt that they
could constitute very helpful allies to the all-important task of
gaining public support for this Governments post-war foreign policy.46 Among the organizations consulted, the Commission to Study
the Organization of Peace was credited by Dulles with having made
an indispensable contribution to the creation of the United Nations.47
James Shotwell of this organization took part in the State Departments Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policy, which contained individuals from private life in addition to civil servants. 48 The
Council on Foreign Relations was represented in this body by its
President Norman Davis, Hamilton Fish (editor of Foreign Affairs)
and Percy Bidwell.49 The Advisory Committees Special Subcommittee on International Organization featured James Shotwell as a member and Clark Eichelberger, also of the Commission to Study the
Organization of Peace, practically in the capacity of a member.50
Louis Sohn was to note a remarkable resemblance between a number
of the Commission [to Study the Organization of Peace]s proposals and
the text of the Charter of the United Nations adopted at the San Francisco
conference in 1945.51 A total of 47 of the Commissions members took
part in the discussions of the conference, and James Shotwell and Clark
Eichelberger presided over the meetings of the consultants to the US
delegation and chaired the committee of consultants on human rights
issues respectively.52 Representatives of 42 private national organizations
were invited to serve as consultants to the US delegation.53 In her survey of their work, Dorothy Robins concluded that the consultants were
particularly influential in the Charter provisions promoting education,
human rights, and trusteeship, expanding and raising economic and social
activities to a major position, and incorporating consultative machinery
in Article 71.54
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The suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental

organizations by the Economic and Social Council in Article 71 of the
Charter stemmed from the proposals of the ABLE (agricultural, business, labour and education) consultants led by Shotwell for the Economic
and Social Council to have direct contact with the groups who, from day
to day, are confronted by the practical results of national and international
economic and social policies.55 In the formal meeting of the US delegation at which Article 71 was discussed, the representative of the sub-
committee responsible for drafting it stated that they had made an effort
to get as much of the consultants [sic] draft into the proposal [for the
text of Article 71] as possible and the Secretary of State expressed the
view that the draft would give the consultants about what they wanted.56
The appeal by the leaders of the February 1945 World Trade Union
Conference that their new organization be granted a special status also
proved significant.57 However, as Douglas Williams has argued, the professional diplomats successfully limited what they saw as the damage by
confining the NGOs to the economic and social side of the picture.58
Possibly the most significant contribution of the consultants at the
San Francisco Conference may have been their contribution to the human
rights provisions of the United Nations Charter. The US Secretary of
State Stettinius informed them that they could justly claim credit for
getting a consideration of human rights into the Charter.59 The violation of human rights by the German government during the Second
World War had been important in stimulating INGO mobilization during the conflict. Some INGOs, such as CIMADE (the Inter-Movement
Evacuees Committee, which was established on 18 October 1939 to assist
evacuees from Alsace and Lorraine), played an important role in provi
ding direct assistance to those fleeing persecution.60 Others, such as the
International League for the Rights of Man (established in New York in
1941 to continue the work of the French League for the Rights of Man
whose members had been dispersed by the conflict), focused on inclusion of references to human rights in the post-war peace settlement.61 A
pioneering role has been attributed to H. G. Wells, who promoted a
Declaration of Rights in a letter to The Times of 23 October 1939, and
who is credited with influencing Roosevelts advocacy of Four Freedoms
in January 1941.62 At the San Francisco Conference, the announcement
by US NGO consultants that it would come as a grievous shock if the
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quate provision for the ultimate achievement of human rights and fundamental freedoms is commonly thought to have been central to the US
delegations promotion of the UN Charters human rights provisions,
although, as Ian Clark has argued, the essentials of the Consultants
demands were already embraced in draft amendments.63
The reference to non-governmental organizations in Article 71 of the
United Nations Charter brought the term into common usage. The role
of these organizations in contributing towards this and other components of the Charter has commonly been seen as a starting point for analyses of how a close partnership was developing between non-governmental
and inter-governmental international organizations, a major challenge
to the geopolitics of the emerging Cold War that was threatening to
divide the world.64 However, as Bertram Pickard noted, the arrangement
for consultation with the United Nations was not only a denial of integral participation of certain non-governmental elements as in the ILO
but also in effect a so-far-and-no-further obstacle to any continuance of
the pragmatic but close IGONGO partnership developed under the
League.65 Whereas, he argued, the Leagues characteristic consultation
with the NGOs of that day, though non-statutory, took the form nevertheless of participation without vote, in the United Nations arrangements this privilege was jealously reserved for the specialized agencies,
and expressly denied to NGOs.66 The term non-governmental organization defined NGOs in terms of what they were not, a less positive
denotation than the terminology of previous eras, such as private international organization. By 1945, there was a widespread perception among
governmental policy-makers that private international organizations had
had too much influence in the League of Nations era, especially at the
World Disarmament Conference, so the provisions of the UN Charter
expressly limited INGO input to the economic and social spheres.67
Furthermore, some INGOs were to play a role in the exacerbation of
tensions as the Cold War developed in the late 1940s. At the end of the
Second World War, many INGOs were reconstituted: in 1945, for
instance, the International Air Traffic Association was succeeded by the
International Air Transport Association, and the International Federation
of Trade Unions by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
The number of INGOs founded in 1945 was as high as in the early years
of the 1930s, a rate of formation that was to double in the following year
and to be sustained for the following two decades.68 More than twice as
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many INGOs were formed in the first two decades of the Cold War than
had been formed in any previous two decades,69 but much of the expansion can be accounted for by the division of transnational civil society
along Cold War lines in this period.
A significant number of INGOs split in two in the early 1940s. As
Peter Willetts has argued, several international NGOs came to be more
sympathetic to the communists than Western opinion could tolerate and
as a result Western groups split from the world organizations and formed
their own rival international NGOs.70 The best-known example is the
secession of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU) from the WFTU in 1949. In the opening speech of the
ICFTUs founding conference, H. L. Bullock stated: We are here to
learn by our mistakes, and to see more clearly than we did on that earlier occasion the significance of the contemporary conflict between the
democratic and the totalitarian way of life. We must not make the mistake of trying to comprehend in our new World Confederation contradictory and irreconcilable objects and aims.71 The formation of the
WFTU in 1945 had seen unprecedented cooperation between Communist and non-Communist trade unions, but Christian trade unions did
not take part from the outset, and, as Denis MacShane has argued, the
relationship between the US and Soviet members of the WFTU were
ragged from the very outset of the WFTUs existence.72 WFTUs failure to secure a higher status in the United Nations system than other
non-governmental bodies was a humiliation, and by the end of 1946
WFTU had failed to establish its own institutional raison dtre, by
providing services or organizing interventions with effect.73 The US participant in the WFTU, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was
used by Truman to build support for the Truman Doctrine, and promoted
WFTU as the trade union participant in the distribution of Marshall
Aid, an issue which split the movement and was to lead to the secession
of the ICFTU in 1949. However, MacShane has argued that the confrontation within trade unions domestically and internationally was one
of the causes rather than a consequence of the Cold War since intra-left
hostility in the trade union movement was deep rooted.74
Divisions along Cold War lines within transnational civil society that
preceded, and potentially contributed towards, the collapse of USSoviet
relations were not confined to the international trade union movement.
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the period preceding the Second World War were described in the preceding chapter. During the conflict, further new organizations exacerbated the development of an EastWest divide within transnational civil
society, such as the International Monarchist League created in 1943,
which claimed that its founders had seen what had happened in Central
Europe when the Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies had been
overthrown, leaving the vacuum to be filled by Nazism, and they feared
that the fall of the Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Albanian thrones
would lead to the eastward expansion of the communist domination.75
At the end of the conflict, a considerable number of new Communist
front INGOs were created. The most significant womens and youth organizations to be founded in 1945, for instance, were the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY ) and the Womens International
Democratic Federation (WIDF), both of which became perceived to be
Communist front organizations, despite some non-Communist support
and their apparently relatively innocuous founding objectives, respectively: of close international understanding and cooperation amongst the
youth with respect for the diversity of ideas and national conditions
and coordination of the activity of millions of women who, during the
last war, got together to oppose with all their might fascism, the cause of
misery and war, to defend the liberty of their peoples.76 They were joined
the following year by a larger number of Soviet-leaning organizations,
including the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL),
the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ), the International
Union of Students (IUS), the World Federation of Scientific Workers
(WFSW) and the World Federation of Teachers Associations (FISG).77
At the opposite end of the spectrum was the Liberal International,
which was established in 1947 with the objective of uniting not only
political Liberals, but freedom loving people of all nations so that a united
stand might be made against the enemies of democracy.78 Many of the
Communist front INGOs founded in the mid 1940s found themselves
confronted by the creation in the later 1940s of rival non-Communist
counterparts in their respective fields of activity. In 1946, for instance,
WFDY was confronted by the (re-)formation of the (pro-Western) International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY ); while in 1948 WFDY was
confronted by the creation of the World Assembly of Youth and the IOJ
was confronted by the formation of the International Federation of Free
Journalists (IFFJ). As Willetts has pointed out, the formation of rival
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pro-Soviet and anti-Communist INGOs in the same fields of activity

spilled over into politics at the United Nations: in ECOSOC the West
used its voting majority against communist-front NGOs, so in 1950
the IOJ lost its consultative status and the WFDY was demoted to the
lowest category of consultative status; and in 1951 the IUSY was awarded
a higher category of consultative status than WFDY, and the IFFJ was
given the consultative status which the IOJ had lost.79
Hindrances such as these did little to stem the proliferation of
Communist front NGOs in the 1950s. The World Peace Council, created in 1949, convened the 1952 International Economic Conference in
Moscow, at which the Committee for the Promotion of International
Trade was established; and the World Congress of Doctors in 1954, at
which the International Medical Association was created. These were
followed by the formation of the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity
Organization (AAPSO) and the Permanent International Committee
of Mothers, conceived by the WPC and WIDF respectively. Throughout the decade, many of the Communist front organizations reported
vast increases in membership, largely on account of population growth
in Communist member countries.80
The apparent growth in membership of Communist front INGOs in
the 1950s disguised the diminishing representation of Western organizations in their membership. In the 1950s, John Clews argues, disillusioned Western students formed the Co-ordinating Secretariat of
National Unions of Students (Cosec) as an alternative to the IUS, followed some time afterwards by the International Commission of Jurists
as the non-Communist alternative to the IADL, [and] Western journalists set up the International Federation of Journalists as a democratic alternative to the IOJ.81
The formation of AAPSO in 1958 reflected not only the division of
transnational civil society along Cold War lines, but also the development of a further fissure in transnational civil society between North and
South. The Cairo conference of 19578 at which AAPSO was created
was described as a striking manifestation of the fundamental changes in
the world, which consist in that the peoples of Asia and Africa, who but
recently were oppressed, enslaved and deprived of elementary human
rights, have now emerged in the world arena, have become an irresistible force that must be reckoned with.82 The objective of AAPSO, to
promote and strengthen cooperation between the peoples of the two con
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tinents,83 is indicative of the increasingly regional orientation of INGOs

in the period following the Second World War.
Whereas before the Second World War Europe-based INGOs tended
to view their objectives in global terms (even though their memberships
were often predominantly European), after the conflict an increasing
number focused their attention purely on the European region. What
had been the International Broadcasting Union, for instance, was revived
in 1950 as the European Broadcasting Union. Furthermore, a significant number of organizations focused on promoting purely European
rather than global economic and/or political cooperation, such as the
European League for Economic Cooperation and the European Union
of Federalists (formed in 1946), and the Socialist Movement for the
United States of Europe and the United Europe Movement (formed in
1947). Although the later formation of the Council of Europe and the
European Coal and Steel Community fell far short of the more ambitious objectives of several of these organizations, the new regional intergovernmental organizations of the 1940s and 1950s became centres
around which new regional INGOs would be formed, in Europe, the
Arab states and the Americas.
In Africa, as Snyder has noted, the idea of Pan-Africanism was revived
after World War II with the withdrawal of European imperialist powers from the continent.84 In 1958, the year of the first Conference of
Independent African States and the formation of the UN Economic
Commission for Africa, the All African Peoples Conference took place
in Accra and established a permanent organization aiming both to accelerate the liberation of Africa from Imperialism and colonialism and to
develop the feeling of one community among the peoples of Africa with
the object to the emergence of a United States of Africa.85
In Asia, where significant new regional intergovernmental organizations were yet to be established, indications of a trend towards regionalization of INGOs were also evident. A pioneering conference convened
in India in 1947 by the Indian Council of World Affairs led to the establishment of the Asian Relations Organization.86 The conference was boycotted by the Muslim League, and Nicholas Mansergh noted that it was
clearly revealed throughout the discussions at the Conference that Asia
is not a unit.87 This was reflected by the evolution of the Asian Relations
Organization, which after ten years of inconsequential existence was
quietly dissolved in 1957.88
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While Indian efforts towards pan-Asian regional organization had little effect, Pakistani efforts towards pan-Islamic organization were more
successful. The World Muslim Congress that had been founded in 1926
had practically gone into oblivion following the Jerusalem congress of
1931, but after the creation of Pakistan, it was reactivated and it started
functioning from its newly established permanent headquarters in Karachi.89 In East Jerusalem in 1952, the prime example of a transnational
Islamist political movement was formed by Shaykh Taqiuddin al-
Nabhani, who created Hizb ut-Tahrir with the aim of reinstating Islam
through a popular Islamic revolution which would install a Caliph.90
Split along EastWest and NorthSouth lines and with a growing
trend towards regionalization, international non-governmental organizations in the 1950s were less central to international politics than they
had been before the Second World War. Even the United Nations, as
Lador-Lederer observed, generally took account of the nuisance value
of NGOs rather than of their positive nature.91 Jeremi Suri has further
argued that there is little evidence that in the 1940s and 1950s INGOs
made much of a tangible difference to policy or everyday life.92
Despite their divisions, within the sectors in which INGOs operated
in the 1940s and 1950s there were several occasions upon which their
influence was considerable. This was commonly the case when there was
a significant intergovernmental political opportunity structure. One of
the outstanding examples of INGO influence in the 1940s was their contribution to the development of human rights norms, taking further the
commitment by states to human rights in the Charter of the United
Nations, which provided the political opportunity structure for INGO
human rights campaigners. Both the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 were in large part responses to INGO
pressure.93 Ren Cassin, the leader of numerous Paris-based INGOs and
principal architect of the Universal Declaration, noted the importance
in the drafting process for the UDHR of the encouragement and assistance of INGOs in refining the clauses of the Declaration, especially
womens INGOs, whose contribution was especially valuable when the
definitive provisions of the Declaration regarding marriage, the family
and children were being worked out.94 According to Korey, Cassin and
Eleanor Roosevelt also came to the conclusion that, rather than governments, it was the NGOs who would take on the challenge of transform
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ing the words of the Declaration from a standard into reality.95 Beyond
their input into the UDHR, international womens NGOs were significant in promoting international agreement upon the principle of equal
pay for equal work embodied in the 1951 Equal Remuneration Convention and the broader 1958 Employment (Discrimination) Convention
of 1958.96
INGOs in the 1940s and 1950s were also an important aspect of what
has commonly been described as one of the most significant transformations of the postwar international scene97decolonization. Despite
their often short-lived existences, bodies such as the Asian Relations
Organization and the African and Asian peoples conferences have been
credited with an important role in the awakening of Asia and Africa.98
Furthermore, non-governmental networks were central to the dissemination of techniques for resisting colonial rule, with the independence
campaigns of Nkrumah, Kaunda and Nyerere modelled explicitly on
Gandhian lines.99
Although one impact of decolonization was to promote the fragmentation of transnational civil society along regional lines, another was to
promote its dispersal beyond its traditional principal loci in Europe and
the Americas. Whereas in 1938 the League of Nations recorded the existence of just five INGOs with headquarters in Asia and none with headquarters in Africa, by 1951 the Union of International Associations
recorded ten INGOs with headquarters in Asia (of which five had had
headquarters in Asia by 1938) and four INGOs with headquarters in
Africa, all of which had been founded after 1941.100
The period following the Second World War also saw the formation
of several of the most significant INGOs that operate in the present day.
This took place in the context of developments such as post-war economic recovery, relative political stability in comparison with the war
years, and further improvements in communications, such as commercial jet aeroplane travel from the 1950s. Many of the new INGOs to be
established in the late 1940s and 1950s took forward on a more permanent basis the work of pre-war organizations, with the International
Organization of Standardization created in 1946 building on the work
of the earlier International Federation of National Standardization Associations, and the World Medical Association and the International Hotel
and Restaurant Association formed in 1947 taking further the earlier
work of the International Professional Association of Doctors and the
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International Hotel Alliance respectively. The World Council of Churches,

established in 1948, represented the completion of decades of work by
the Faith and Order and Life and Work movements towards creating a
lasting ecumenical organization; while the joint inter-governmental and
non-governmental International Union for the Conservation of Nature,
set up in 1948, built on the work of the International Office for the Protection of Nature, established twenty years earlier. The World Veterans
Federation, created in 1950, and the Socialist International, set up the
following year to promote democratic socialism, succeeded the activities of the earlier Inter-Allied Federation of Ex-Servicemen and the
Labour and Socialist International respectively.101 Other new INGOs,
such as the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, set up in
1946, the World Movement of Mothers and the International Union of
Family Organizations, founded in 1947, and the World Fellowship of
Buddhists, set up in 1950, signified the formation of INGOs on behalf
of new groups of people in the post-war era.
A further set of new INGOs aimed to tackle areas of activity previously neglected by INGOs. In some cases technological and social developments were important, such as the growing use of motorized road
transportation, with the International Road Federation being set up in
1948 on account of a pressing need for a new international organization
to attract attention to the growing economic and social importance of
good highways.102 In other cases mobilization took place in the context
of developing international norms, such as for human rights; the first
postwar worldwide homosexual association was established in Amsterdam in 1951: the International Committee for Sexual Equality.103 A particularly significant new INGO to be established in 194852 was the
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which was created on account of a perceived need for world-wide co-operation of all
groups and persons to promote knowledge of population trends and world
resources in relation to the standards of family needs, given the population growth in newly decolonized territories such as India, where IPPFs
inaugural congress took place in 1952.104 IPPF now claims to be one of
the worlds largest organizations with more service delivery points than
McDonalds and active in the promotion of sexual and reproductive
health in more than 170 countries.105
Amongst the most significant new organizations of the late 1940s and
1950s were those that were established to address the issues that under
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pinned the global divisions along EastWest and NorthSouth lines.

Especially concerned with challenging the EastWest divide were the
new INGOs for the promotion of international peace. Some viewed the
promotion of global organizations as central to their programme, such as
the World Federation of United Nations Associations that was established in 1946 to work for world peace and security through the United
Nations, and the United World Federalists set up the following year to
unite those with somewhat more ambitious objectives.106 The invention
of the atomic bomb was important in sparking the formation of a new
generation of peace organizations centred around preventing nuclear war,
such as the Federation of Atomic Scientists set up in 1945, and later the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the National Committee for a Sane
Nuclear Policy (SANE) and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and
World Affairs, all of which were launched in 1957 and spearheaded what
Carter describes as the first wave of protests against nuclear weapons and
nuclear testing [that] can accurately be described as a movement.107
As regards the NorthSouth divide, INGOs concerned with aid and
international development became increasingly significant in addressing
the issues underpinning this fissure in the 1950s. By this decade, organizations that had been set up initially to deal with the humanitarian
consequences of the Second World War in Europe were expanding their
activities to assistance to developing countries, with Oxfam sending relief
in response to crop failure in Bihar, India, in 1951, and CARE turning
its attention to South America.108 They were also joined by new charitable INGOs such as World Vision in 1950, War on Want and Caritas
Internationalis in 1951, International Voluntary Services in 1953, Medical Assistance Programs International in 1954 and ATD Fourth World
in 1957. In the mid 1950s, an Overseas Development Office was established by the Ford Foundation, the overseas expenditure of which
exceeded that of many UN development agencies, while the formation
in 1957 of the Society for International Development is seen as a landmark in the professionalization of INGO involvement in international
development. In 1958, the World Council of Churches is credited with
setting the worlds first target for overseas development assistance at 1
per cent of each high-income countrys GNP.109
In the post-war years, INGOs had contributed both to Cold War tensions and to decolonization, which in turn had contributed towards divisions in transnational civil society. However, the EastWest and
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NorthSouth divisions of the period also formed the context for the emergence of a new generation of INGOs that aimed to challenge these divisions. The new INGOs of the 1940s and 1950s challenging the EastWest
and NorthSouth divisions that had emerged both in transnational civil
society and in world politics more generally laid the foundations for the
revitalization of transnational civil society in the subsequent three decades.
The Revitalization of Transnational Civil Society from the 1960s

to the 1980s
It has become widely recognized that the 1960s was for INGOs their
breakout decade in the Cold War, during which the number of INGOs
more than doubled.110 In many ways, it was the fragmentation of the
period that helped to reinvigorate transnational civil society. As Ian Clark
has argued in respect of the historical development of globalization, the
cold wars ultimate effect has been one of integration, not disintegration,
and although it created deep fissures between East and West, this served
the purpose of integration within the West, stimulated an attempted
incorporation of the Third World into the First, and may contribute to
a single global system in the cold wars aftermath.111 The multiple fragmentary forces of the 1960s helped to stimulate a wide range of INGO
responses: competition between East and West in the emerging Third
World stimulated the development movement in the first development
decade; evidence of human rights abuses by Cold War governments
helped mobilize the contemporary international human rights movement; the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War stimulated the peace
movement in the 1960s; and evidence of humanitys destruction of the
natural habitat motivated the creation of the contemporary international
environmentalist movement.
The 1960s opened with the publication of a non-Communist manifesto by Walt Whitman Rostow: his Stages of Economic Growth, which
aimed to address the central challenge of our time the challenge of
creating, in association with the non-Communist politicians and peoples of the preconditions and the early take-off areas, a partnership which
will see them through into sustained growth on a political and social
basis which keeps open the possibilities of progressive, democratic development.112 As Iriye has argued, although this kind of developmentalism was clearly seen as an instrument for waging the Cold War such

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ideas could serve internationalist purposes and underpinned a vision,

shared by intergovernmental and international nongovernmental organizations alike, that developing nations of the world should be closely
integrated into the international economy.113 The result, as Brian Smith
has noted, was a dramatic increase in governmental subsidies to international development NGOs from the 1960s onwards, with governments
increasingly recognising their greater ability to get to the grassroots level
than foreign governmental agencies.114
Governments also appeared to be increasingly susceptible to INGO
advocacy on the development issue from the 1960s onwards, with campaigning by War on Want in the UK being credited with having contributed to Britain being, in 1964, the first donor country to have a
separate development ministry.115 In addition to a growing trend towards
advocacy among development INGOs, there was also a significant
increase in their number from the 1960s onwards.116 New organizations
such as the International Organization for Cultivating Universal Human
Spirit, founded in Japan in 1961, and the Aga Khan Foundation, created
in 1967, reflected their increasing diversity. The result of the proliferation of development INGOs was a need for greater coordination of their
activities, a purpose which became increasingly served by new collaborative organizations such as the International Council of Voluntary
Agencies, established in 1962 to build on earlier cooperation on refugee
issues.117 Chabbott has further argued that a specialised cadre of international-development professionals emerged from the 1960s onwards
as a result of the increasing professionalization of development INGOs,
supported by the creation of research institutions such as the Institute of
Development Studies, founded at the University of Sussex in 1966.118
The Cold War context was to stimulate in a very different way the
international human rights movement. In the introduction to a landmark
article in The Observer of 28 May 1961 by British barrister Peter Benenson,
it was stated that on both sides of the Iron Curtain, thousands of men
and women are being held in gaol without trial because their political or
religious views differ from those of their Governments.119 Considering
that the spread of dictatorship, the tensions that have resulted from the
Cold War, and the increasing cleavage between races of different colour,
have combined to make state persecution of the individual the gravest
social problem of the 1960s, Amnesty International was launched by
Benenson in 1961 officially to mobilize public opinion in defence of
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those men and women who are imprisoned because their ideas are unacceptable to their governments.120 As Buchanan has noted, for Benenson
1961 was not any old yearit was the anniversary of the emancipation
of the serfs in Russia and the outbreak of the American Civil War.121
Benensons underlying purpose, which he hoped those who are closely
connected with it will remember, but never publish, was to find a common base upon which the idealists of the world can co-operate, in particular to absorb the latent enthusiasm of great numbers of such idealists,
who have, since the eclipse of Socialism, become increasingly frustrated;
he also stated that it matters more to harness the enthusiasm of the helpers than to bring people out of prison Those whom the Amnesty
Appeal primarily aims to free are the men and women imprisoned by
cynicism, and doubt.122 This has been interpreted as indicating that
Amnesty International was launched to address the unmet demand for
activism among certain populations in the free world.123
Amnesty Internationals initial work concentrated on informationgathering and letter-writing in respect of political prisoners in the First,
Second and Third Worlds, and within three years 1,367 prisoners had
been adopted by its 360 groups, established in fourteen countries, with
329 prisoners released.124 Amnesty International was awarded UN consultative status in 1964 and made use of the procedures later established
by ECOSOC for reporting human rights abuses to the UN Human
Rights Commission.125 As Clark has argued, Amnesty International also
expanded its activities to include promotion of stronger, preventative
international norms concerning prisoner treatment, most notably in its
1970s campaign against torture, which contributed towards the UNs
1975 Declaration on the issue.126
With respect to the peace movement, the context of the possibility of
nuclear annihilation evident in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the
escalation of the Vietnam War in the later 1960s was particularly significant in its development. At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, peace
activists in the United States are thought to have staged Americas lar
gest open-air demonstration for peace up to that time.127 In addition,
Lawrence Wittner has provided evidence that during the Cuban Missile
Crisis the US governments caution reflected its sensitivity to public
opinion, with Kennedy fearing demonstrations, peace groups marching
in the streets, perhaps a divisive public debate, and US diplomatic messagesparticularly the claim that sane people would not fight a nuclear

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warillustrated the centrality of the ideas popularized by nuclear disarmament groups.128 He further argues that in the 1960s, pressured by a
worldwide movement and wary of public opinion, the leaders of most
nations ultimately proved capable of making substantial changes in their
nuclear policies, such as the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the
Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968.129
Despite the apparent influence of the nuclear disarmament movement
in government responses to the Cuban Missile Crisis, in the aftermath
of that crisis the nuclear disarmament movement is generally thought to
have faded away.130 The Vietnam War, on the other hand, stimulated
new forms of peace activism, such as the teach-in pioneered at the
University of Michigan on 24 March 1965.131 Students played a central
role in the movement against the Vietnam War, forming a Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in 1968.132 That year
witnessed an explosion of revolutionary student movements, believing
that they were taking part in a world-wide struggle against the existing
order in East and West, and in North and South.133 It is claimed that at
this time there emerged a set of new social movements encompassing
peace, feminist, environmentalist and many other forms of activism which
were thought to be a product of a shift to a postindustrial economy and
different from social movements of the industrial age, with a focus on
moral, identity and lifestyle concerns rather than economic redistribution, and a preference for non-institutional political channels and nonhierarchical forms of organization.134 While what exactly was new about
the new social movements has been much debated,135 and although, as
this book has described, peace, feminist, environmentalist and many other
forms of activism have extensive previous histories, there are undoubtedly some novel characteristics of INGOs formed from the 1960s onwards
in respect of issues such as the environment and feminism.
The establishment of the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1961 to
provide greater financial resources for the already existent but weak
worldwide conservation movement may be interpreted as an incremental development, but was significant in that it provided unprecedented
levels not only of funding to conservationist projects, totalling more than
$5 million in the organizations first decade, but also of public awareness
of conservation issues.136 Similarly important in transforming public
awareness of environmental issues was the publication of Rachel Carsons
Silent Spring in 1962, which, together with the effects of affluence, the
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age of atomic testing, a series of well publicized environmental disasters, advances in scientific knowledge, and the influence of other social
movements, has been credited with sparking an environmental revolution in 196270, during which a new environmentalism developed, which
was more activist and political than earlier forms of environmentalism,
and more concerned with a need for humanity to avoid environmental
catastrophe.137 The result was a new wave of environmentalist INGOs.
Friends of the Earth, established in 1969, broke from the established
conservation movement in having as its specific purpose the task of
waging political battles to protect the environment.138 Greenpeace, initially the Dont Make a Wave Committee that was established in the
same year as Friends of the Earth, broke from traditional environmentalism in its use of high-profile non-violent direct actions that use the
media as a weapon.139
In the 1970s, environmental INGOs played a significant role in pre
parations for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment,
at which they were permitted to speak at certain sessions and ran parallel conferences and journals, reintroducing to United Nations conferences intergovernmental procedures and activist tactics previously used
at the Hague conferences and those of the League of Nations.140 The key
outcome of this conference, the establishment of the United Nations
Environment Programme in Nairobi, motivated the formation of a network of environmentalist INGOs: the Environment Liaison Center
International in Nairobi in 1974, the same year as the European Environmental Bureau was set up to lobby the EU. As McCormick has argued,
the post-Stockholm era saw renewed growth in the formation of new
NGOs with 2,320 environmental NGOs in less developed countries, of
which 60 per cent had been formed since Stockholm, and 13,000 in more
developed countries, of which 30 per cent had been formed since
Stockholm by 1982.141 More generally, the number of INGOs more than
quadrupled between 1972 and 1984, from 2,795 to 12,686.142
Womens INGOs evolved in the 1960s and 1970s in a similar fashion
to environmentalist INGOs. As with the environmentalist movement,
literature on the subject had a crucial impact, in this case the publication
of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan in 1963, which has been creditedor blamedfor destroying, single-handedly and almost overnight,
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transformed the social fabric of the United States and countries around
the world.143 The events of 1968 are thought to have been similarly significant, promoting mobilization in a decentralized and antihierarchical
organizational form.144 As Moghadam has argued, the second wave feminism that developed in the United States and elsewhere in the 1960s
was initially nationally based and nationally oriented.145 The new international womens INGOs of the 1960s consisted primarily of womens
business and professional associations, such as the International Union
of Women Architects (1963), the International Association of Women
and Home Page Journalists (1964) and the International Federation of
Womens Travel Organizations.146 The following decade, however, saw
international womens mobilization transformed.
Established INGOs played an important part in this process, which,
having taken part in the development of the 1967 United Nations
Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in
1967, persuaded the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to declare
1975 International Womens Year, and in the following Decade for
Women over a third of womens INGOs were founded.147 The Mexico
conference in International Womens Year was important in provoking
the establishment of new womens INGOs that made it their priority to
mobilize women and co-ordinate local and national activities through
networking, such as the International Feminist Network and the International Womens Tribune Center set up in 1976, in contrast to earlier
womens INGOs that restricted networking to an elite of those women
active at the international level.148 New womens INGOs were also
dedicated to an increasingly broad range of issues, such as development,
domestic violence and the environment.149 With the Decade for Women
coinciding with the second Development Decade, the two events melded
into each other in the sense that a core dimension for grappling with
womens issues became the concern for incorporating women into development, and a result of womens INGO pressure was the endorsement
of remarkably strong feminist positions as UN policy for development.150 However, splits between Northern and Southern womens
INGOs were exacerbated over the development issue, and new womens
INGOs that aimed to tackle the development issue from a Southern perspective were established, such as the Association of African Women for
Research and Development in 1977 and Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era in 1984.151 Organizations such as Women Living
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Under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), both
also formed in 1984, on the other hand, have bridged international divisions in their pursuit of womens rights in Muslim countries.152
The new forms of networking and more radical forms of activism of
the 1970s extended beyond the womens and environmentalist movements. In the case of humanitarian INGOs, a more radical form of mobilization is evident in the creation of Mdecins Sans Frontires in 1971
to ensure medical and surgical aid regardless of the location of the disaster by veterans of the 1968 rebellion who had joined the French Red
Cross and were horrified not only by the carnage [in Biafra] but also by
the Red Cross principle of neutrality, which ruled out any public condemnation.153 Iriye has argued that as a founder of the organization
wrote, [MSF] was frankly subversive; it would not always wait for,
or go through, government authorization before acting, and it would not
hesitate to publicize its activities or the plight of the people it assisted.154
The creation of Africare, also in 1971, which was conceived in Africa
in the Republic of Niger and which from the beginning was always
there to work with the people and not to superimpose a plan for them,
also marked a novel development in aid organizations, as did the creation of Appropriate Health Resources Technologies Action Group in
1976 to assist health workers in developing countries to gain access to
information.155 A further transformation was evident in the responses to
the famine in Africa in the mid 1980s, when the major Western-based
Muslim charitable organizations Islamic Relief Worldwide and Muslim
Aid were founded in the United Kingdom in 1984 and 1985 respectively.156 However, this is also the point at which humanitarian aid became
a cause clbre, prompting such ad hoc celebrity-driven coalitions as Live
Aid and USA for Africa, which succeeded in raising considerable sums,
but much of which was used by the Ethiopian government to drive out
suspect populations, what we now call ethnic cleansing, and to resettle
Ethiopians on state-run farms that employed forced labour.157
As well as witnessing the transformation of existing transnational social
movements, such as for aid and development, human rights, peace, womens rights and the environment, the period from the 1960s to the 1980s
also saw the emergence of INGOs representing new issues and sectors
of society. The beginning of this period saw the formation of the organization that claims to be the only independent and authoritative global
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1960 as the International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU),

to act as a clearinghouse among member organizations for consumer
tests methods, plans and publications of consumer organisations.158 As
outlined in later paragraphs, IOCU and its regional members were to
play a central role in mobilizing international networks in the 1970s and
1980s.159 Another self-proclaimed unique organization to be established
in the 1960s was Survival International, which claims to be the only
organization working for tribal peoples rights worldwide and was
founded in 1969 following the publication of an article on the genocide
of Amazonian Indians.160 A number of other groups of people also
became better-represented by INGOs in subsequent years, such as the
elderly (the International Federation on Ageing was set up in 1973, the
International Federation of Associations of the Elderly in 1980 and
HelpAge International in 1983), homosexuals (the International Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association was established in 1978)
and the disabled (the Disabled Peoples International was established in
1981). Technological advances in this period both facilitated and were
facilitated by INGOs, with computer networking pioneered by non-
governmental organizations such as Human Rights Information and
Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS, 1982), Interdoc
(1984), PeaceNet (1985), GreenNet (1986), and ultimately the Association for Progressive Communications (1987), which for the period from
1989 to 1995 was the core of the internet.161
Amongst the most notable trends in the three decades from 1960 was
the greater geographical dispersal of INGOs and their memberships following decolonization in Africa and Asia. According to UIA data,
whereas the proportion of INGOs with members in Europe in 1960 was
approximately four times greater than those with members in Asia and
more than six times greater than those with members in Africa, by 1988
the proportion was only approximately two and a half times greater than
those with members in either Africa or Asia.162 Furthermore, the location of INGO secretariats became increasingly dispersed in this period:
data collated by Sikkink and Smith indicates that whereas in 1963 77
per cent of the secretariats of INGOs with social change objectives were
located in Europe in contrast to 6 per cent in any global South country,
by 1983 this had changed to 68 per cent and 17 per cent respectively.163
Some of the expansion in South-headquartered INGOs is accounted for
by the multiplication of INGOs in issue-areas already well-represented
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in the region by INGOs, such as religion, with the formation of organizations such as the Muslim World League in Makkah in 1962 and Vishva
Hindu Parishad in Mumbai in 1964. Further evidence of building on
previous trends is provided in the expansion of Latin American INGOs
in this period, with notable new Latin American INGOs including
Confederacin Latinoamericana de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crdito
in 1970 and Servicio Paz y Justicia in 1974. The most remarkable growth
in South-headquartered INGOs took place among the African states
that became independent in the early 1960s, with significant new INGOs
including the Organization of African Trade Union Unity in 1973. A
further key development was the formation of South-centred networks,
such as the Third World Network established in Penang, Malaysia, in
1984 on account of a growing disillusionment and frustration about the
inadequacy of established international agencies (like the UN organisations) in effectively taking up Third World issues and the need to provide closer co-operation among NGOs in Third World countries that
have adopted alternative patterns of development that are based on the
fulfilment of self-determined basic needs.164 Groups such as the Third
World Network contrasted with earlier South-oriented INGOs such as
AAPSO, not only in their more decentralized nature, but also in their
comparative independence from governments. The organization which
helped to create the Third World Network, the Consumers Association
of Penang (a participant in IOCU), helped spawn a wide range of Southbased networks, such as the Pesticide Action Network (1982), the AsiaPacific Peoples Environmental Network (1983), and the World Rainforest
Movement (1986), reflecting the growing diversity of South-based
INGOs in the period.165 Also reflective of this growing diversity was the
establishment of organizations such as the Arab Organization for Human
Rights in 1983 and the Asian Womens Human Rights Council established three years later.
While decolonization was to have a significant impact on the geographical dispersal of INGOs, the growth of transnational corporations
(TNCs) in this period was to have a considerable impact on forms of
INGO mobilization. In 1973 the United Nations reported that In the
past quarter of a century the world has witnessed the dramatic development of the multinational corporation into a major phenomenon in international economic relations, the activities of which rival in terms of scope
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Foreign
direct investment quadrupled between 1960 and 1975 and then
more than doubled by 1985, and in 1988 the United Nations described
TNCs as the most important actors in the world economy given that
the biggest TNCs have sales which exceed the aggregate output of most
countries.167 It is in the context of a growing European challenge to the
post-war preponderance of US-based TNCs in the early 1970s that the
World Economic Forum developed following a meeting of European
business leaders in January 1971, to discuss a coherent strategy for European business to face challenges in the international marketplace.168
There also developed in the 1970s significant new INGOs to facilitate
international business transactions, such as the Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a cooperative to facilitate international bank transfers set up in 1973 with support from 239
banks from 15 countries.169
The rise of the TNC as a significant economic and political actor in
world politics provided a new target for social change INGOs, alongside
the traditional target of governmental and intergovernmental actors.
During the 1970s a growing number of national NGOs were formed
aimed at promoting corporate social responsibility by corporations based
in their countries, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) created by US churches in 1973. Organizations dedicated to monitoring TNCs were also set up, such as the Transnational
Information Exchange established in 1977. In terms of transnational
activism, a pioneering case of mobilization against a TNC is provided
by the campaign that developed in the 1970s in respect of Nestls marketing of breast milk substitutes in developing countries, highlighted in
War on Wants 1974 pamphlet The Baby Killer. When published in
German as Nestl ttet Babys by Swiss NGO Arbeitsgruppe Dritte Welt
(AgDW), Nestl sued the group for libel, which attracted significant
media coverage and stimulated the formation in 1976 of a transnational
network to gather information on TNC promotion of baby milk.170 The
following year the Infant Formula Action Committee (INFACT) was
created in the United States to boycott Nestl until it ceased promotion
of infant formulas, a campaign which spread to Canada, New Zealand
and Australia in 1978, the United Kingdom in 1980, Sweden and West
Germany in 1981, and France in 1982.171 Following the WHO/UNICEF
meeting that was convened to discuss the issue in 1979, War on Want,
AgDW, INFACT, ICCR, Oxfam and IOCU formed the International
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Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which aimed to act as a monitor

of corporate activity around the world, using the recommendations of
the October 1979 meeting as a guideline and eventually brought together
100 groups working in sixty-five countries in every continent.172 Within
two years, the Code of Marketing for Breast Milk Substitutes was adopted
by the World Health Assembly, despite US and corporate opposition.173
Finally, in 1984, Nestl and the International Nestl Boycott Committee, which had been set up by boycotters in 1979 to negotiate with Nestl,
agreed a joint statement confirming Nestls compliance with the International Code.174
Over the course of the period from the 1960s until the 1980s, INGO
targeting of TNCs contributed to the enrichment of what Paul Wapner
refers to as politics beyond the state or world civic politics, by which
INGOs help shape world affairs not only by influencing states, but also
by working within and across societies themselves, including by targeting corporations.175 The boycotting of slave-grown goods by the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in the early nineteenth century was
indicative that politics beyond the state is far from new.176 However, it
gained renewed prominence from the 1960s onwards. Amongst the examples cited by Wapner are the decline in demand for seal pelts following
a campaign by environmentalist INGOs including Greenpeace from the
1960s onwards, which rendered the 1983 EEC ban on seal pelts that followed the drop in demand an afterthought and ultimately unnecessary;
and the cessation of the practice of catching dolphins in the process of
tuna fishing by the three largest tuna companies following the launching of an international non-governmental campaign by the Earth Island
Institute in 1985.177
Transnational networking targeting governments in the same period
has given rise to another significant concept: the transnational advocacy
network operating through the boomerang pattern by which when the
links between state and domestic actors are severed, domestic NGOs may
directly seek international allies to try to bring pressure on their states
from outside.178 As with world civic politics, transnational advocacy networks date at least to nineteenth-century anti-slavery activism.179 The bestknown examples, however, took place in the late twentieth century, such
as the transnational campaign against apartheid in South Africa and the
network in respect of Argentine disappearances from 1976, where rapid
change occurred because strong domestic human rights organizations doc
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umented abuses and protested against repression, and international pressures helped protect domestic monitors and open spaces for their protest.180
The activities of the Argentine Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza
de Mayo inspired relatives of disappeared elsewhere in Latin America,
leading to the formation in 1981 of the Latin American Federation of
Associations for Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (FEDEFAM),
which lobbied for an international convention on disappearances, and
which in turn inspired the creation of similar associations in other continents, such as the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearance
and the African Network against Forced Disappearances.181
By far the boldest claims with respect to the impact of transnational
non-governmental networking in the period from the 1970s onwards
relate to the processes which ultimately brought about the end of the
Cold War. In the context of the breakdown of dtente in the late 1970s
and early 1980s, a second generation of INGOs in the nuclear disarmament movement was formed, which brought together peace activists from
both sides of the Iron Curtain. One of the most important initiatives was
launched by US and Soviet physicians, who took advantage of an important opportunity: the ill health of the Soviet Unions ageing leaders,
who approved the sending of a Soviet delegation of physicians to the
1980 conference in Geneva at which International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) was founded.182 In the same year, an
Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament (END) was launched in
Great Britain calling for a Europe free of nuclear weapons and a transnational movement to promote this, loyal not to East or West, but
to each other.183 The signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty seven years later was attributed by Gorbachev to powerful
anti-nuclear initiatives such as IPPNW, without which it is unlikely that
this Treaty would have come about.184 END was to be yet more influential on account of its forging of citizen-to-citizen links across the East
West divide, which even opponents of the peace movement conceded
were significant.185
It may be argued that while peace activism played a role in bringing
the Cold War to an end from the top down on account of its influence
on intergovernmental agreements such as the INF Treaty, the work of
END and human rights groups played a role in bringing the Cold War
to an end from the bottom up, by assisting the citizen mobilization against
the Communist regimes in central and eastern Europe that culminated
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in the revolutions of 1989. The 1975 Helsinki Final Act sparked the formation of a transnational Helsinki network including groups on both
sides of the Cold War divide for the monitoring of its human rights provisions, such as the Moscow Helsinki Group and the US-based Helsinki
Watch (now Human Rights Watch).186 On the day that the former disbanded, the latter formed an International Helsinki Federation for
Human Rights (IHR) to defend the rights of beleaguered Helsinki
groups in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, encourage the formation of Helsinki groups in West European countries where none existed,
and establish a coordinating office in Vienna.187 Following the revolutions of 1989, Vclav Havel told Helsinki Watch, I know very well what
you did for us, and perhaps without you, our revolution would not be.188
In the period from the 1960s until the 1980s, INGOs had been influential in transforming national policy (such as in helping provoke the
creation of overseas development ministries), intergovernmental policy
(for instance, in campaigning for intergovernmental agreements against
torture), corporate behaviour (such as in the case of Nestls marketing
of breast milk substitutes) and in developments as varied as the creation
of the internet and the end of the Cold War. INGO numbers had
increased more than tenfold during these three decades, from less
than 1,300 in 1960 to more than 14,000 in 1989.189 This expansion
included INGOs representing new social movements and South-based
institutions such as the Third World Network. INGOs dealt with a
wider range of issue-areas and had become more geographically dispersed, and there had developed less hierarchical, networked forms of
cross-border mobilization.
The revitalization of transnational civil society from the 1960s onwards
had taken place in the context of the geopolitical divisions on EastWest
and NorthSouth lines. The issues surrounding these divisions, such as
the nuclear arms race and economic inequalities, were the focus for many
of the new INGOs of this period. Also important were scientific discoveries, particularly those concerning the natural environment, which transformed transnational action in this field from the 1960s. The emergence
of new social movements and their transnational organizations took
place in the context of cultural, social and economic changes, including
the development of youth culture, post-material values and the postindustrial economy. Other economic transformations were also significant, with the growing economic and political role of transnational

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corporations forming the context for greater INGO activity in relation

to these actors. The third wave of democratizations190 that took place in
this period expanded national-level political openings, while the convening of United Nations conferences such as the Stockholm conference
provided the context for revitalized INGO input into global governance.
Developments within transnational civil society itself were also important: the apparent failures of earlier movements, for instance, stimulated
the creation of new INGOs such as Amnesty International. Individuals
played a particularly crucial role, whether authors such as Rachel Carson,
or INGO founders such as Peter Benenson.
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The end of the Cold War, and the apparent role that transnational civil
society had played in it, facilitated the perception in the 1990s that civil
society could be not only transnational in nature, but even global.191 In
1990, for example, Rein Mllerson argued that it is necessary not only
to get rid of iron curtains, but to work together to create a global civil
society.192 It was widely noted that the notion of civil society had been
critical to those who were ultimately successful in challenging Communism in central and eastern Europe in the 1980s.193 In a landmark article on the emergence of global civil society in 1992, Ronnie Lipschutz
argued that its development had been facilitated by states loss of sovereignty to international and sub-national institutions and governments
reduced role in welfare provision, and that it was a response to hegemony
of the liberal capitalist world order.194
The idea of an emergent global civil society in the early 1990s fitted
well with the common perception at the time that it was possible to build
a new world order. US President George H. W. Bushs speech promoting this objective on 11 September 1990 advocated a world where the
rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle and a reinvigorated United
Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.195 The convening
of multiple United Nations conferences in the early 1990s was a significant opportunity for global civil society to make itself evident. At the
Rio Earth Summit held in 1992, 1,400 non-governmental organizations
were officially accredited, and about 9,000 took part in an unofficial parallel forum.196 Representatives of INGOs played an important role in the
official preparations for the conference, and amongst the outcomes of
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the conference was provision for strengthening the role of major groups
including INGOs as part of the sustainable development agenda.197 Discussion of womens human rights at the Vienna World Conference on
Human Rights the following year and their inclusion as a key component of the Declaration arising from the conference reflected the impact
of the Global Campaign for Womens Human Rights and the Global
Tribunal on Violations of Womens Human Rights that it organized.198
Consisting of multiple organizations and networks, the Global
Campaign for Womens Human Rights is an example of a global coalition, a form of mobilization that became increasingly prevalent in the
1990s.199 Amongst the most broad-based to develop was CIVICUS:
World Alliance for Citizen Participation which emerged in 19913 on
the initiative of a range of civil society leaders from North and South
America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East who aimed to form
a global alliance of individuals and organisations which might strengthen
civil society institutions, advocate for the cause of civil society among the
worlds decision-makers and stimulate dialogue among civil society
organisations and across the nonprofit, business and public sectors.200
Like the Union of International Associations founded eighty years before,
its principal achievements have included the publishing of data on global
civil society. It achieved a membership of 400 non-governmental organizations by 1997.201
That year a similar-sized global coalitionthe International Campaign
to Ban Landminesand its organizer Jody Williams were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for their work for the banning and clearing of antipersonnel mines.202 The Campaigns extensive role in the negotiations
leading up to the 1997 Ottawa Landmines Convention was described by
the Canadian Foreign Minister as a new type of diplomacy suited to a
new era.203 The following year saw a similar role played by the Coalition
for an International Criminal Court in the proceedings leading up to the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.204 In both cases, the
achievements of the coalitions reflected the new opportunities provided
by the post-Cold War context and the coalitions working relationship
with intergovernmental bodies and responsive states, as well as the coalitions well-coordinated and broad-based mobilization.205
Amongst the most frequent targets of transnational coalitions in the
1990s were the international financial institutions: the World Bank and
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in opposition to the World Bank-funded Narmada Dam played an important part in encouraging the World Bank not only to launch its first independent review into a project funded by it under implementation, but
also to set up in 1993 an inspection panel to provide an independent
forum to private citizens who believe that they or their interests have
been or could be directly harmed by a project financed by the World
Bank.206 In the same year, Transparency International was established
on the initiative of Peter Eigen, who had previously endeavoured with
little success to pursue an anti-corruption agenda within the World Bank,
as an INGO dedicated to combating international corruption.207
New international agreements and intergovernmental organizations
that reflected the ascendance of the liberal capitalist world order in this
periodsuch as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA,
1994) and the World Trade Organization (WTO, 1995)provided the
context for the development of what is now commonly referred to as the
global justice movement.208 A key turning point is often viewed to have
been the Zapatista uprising in Mexico, timed to coincide with the launch
of NAFTA in January 1994. This indigenous peoples movement rapidly
developed a solidarity network beyond the borders of Mexico through
pioneering use of the internet. It also convened in 1996 an Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism, which
attracted more than 3,000 people from many countries and was to form
the model for the later World Social Forums.209 The following year, a
broad network of non-governmental bodies mobilizing through the internet played an important part in delegitimizing OECD negotiations for
the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which collapsed in 1998.210
This set the context for the so-called Battle of Seattle during the 1999
WTO ministerial meeting in that city. Between 14,000 and 30,000 activists demonstrated in Seattle on a wide range of issues including environmentalism, human rights and labour rights, the bringing together of
which is a key feature of the global justice movement.211
Transnational corporations were as commonly the targets of transnational campaigns in the 1990s as governments and intergovernmental
organizations. By this time a wide range of strategies had evolved for
attempting to bring about corporate change. These included both confrontational methods such as boycotts and shareholder activism (both
notably used against Shell in the mid 1990s) and more cooperative
methods such as codes of conduct, for example the Coalition for Envi156
ronmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) principles (1989), and

the Clean Clothes Campaigns model code (1998).212 In respect of confrontational strategies, the internet provided not only a new means of
communication for activists, but also a new means of non-violent coercion through hacktivist techniques such as denial of service attacks, website hijacking and defacement, and mass emailing.213 As for cooperative
methods, the decade witnessed remarkable growth in the number of private certification schemes, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (1993),
Marine Stewardship Council (1997) and Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (1997).
By the turn of the millennium the number of INGOs had expanded
considerably, although growth in the 1990s had been at a slower rate than
in the 1980s. It is estimated that between 1989 and 1999 the number of
INGOs increased by 21 per cent, from 14,333 to 17,364.214 Amongst the
new organizations to be established in this period were bodies aiming to
speak on behalf of previously under-represented groups in transnational
civil society, such as officially unrepresented peoples in the case of the
Unrepresented Peoples and Nations Organization (set up in the Hague
in 1991), peasants in the case of La Via Campesina (established in Mons,
Belgium, in 1993), shack and slum dwellers in the case of Shack/Slum
Dwellers International (founded in South Africa in 1996), and migrants
and asylum seekers in the case of the No Border Network (established
in 1999).215 Other new INGOs aimed to promote previously neglected
ideas: the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for
Citizens Action (ATTAC) that was established in France in 1998, for
example, drew reinvigorated attention to James Tobins 1972 proposal
for a tax on all spot conversions of currencies.216 New transnational issues
on the international agenda also stimulated the formation of new INGOs,
with the issue of HIV/AIDS stimulating the creation of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations in 1990, the International
Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in 1992, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in 1993 and the International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative in 1996.217 In addition, new INGOs were formed as a result of
the development of new technologies, most notably the internet with
respect to which were founded the Internet Society in 1992 to provide
assistance and support to groups and organizations involved in the use,
operation, and evolution of the Internet and the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1998, in part to set pol
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icy for and direct the allocation of number blocks to regional number
registries for the assignment of Internet addresses.218 The US government paper from which ICANN originated provided the rationale for
its creation: As the Internet becomes commercial, it becomes inappropriate for U.S. research agencies to participate in and fund these functions We propose the creation of a private, not-for-profit corporation
(the new corporation) to manage the coordinated functions in a stable
and open institutional framework.219
The growth rate of INGO formation in the 1990s varied considerably
between different regions of the world. For example, the rate of formation of new INGOs in Asia was approximately one third higher than
that in western Europe, a contrast which may be attributed in part to the
differences in the rates of population growth and political and economic
development in these regions, as well as the different starting points in
respect of pre-existing numbers of INGOs.220 Organizational forms
which had previously been under-represented in Asia expanded in number: with respect to the promotion of human rights in the region, for
instance, in 1994 the Asia Pacific Human Rights Information Centre
was set up in Osaka and the Asia Pacific Human Rights NGOs Facilitating Team in Bangkok, and four years later the Asia Pacific Human
Rights Network in New Delhi. In 1997 the Asian Network for Free Elections was established, claiming to be Asias first regional network of civil
society organizations and aiming to promote and support democratization at national and regional levels in Asia.221 Following the collapse of
the Soviet bloc, the expansion in the number of INGOs founded in eastern Europe in the 1990s was even faster (at a rate approximately eight
times greater than that in western Europe), with new formations including the Network of EastWest Women in Croatia in 1991 and the Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development established in the
same year in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Although the expansion of INGOs in Africa was at a similar rate to that in western Europe
in the 1990s, this region also witnessed the formation of significant new
INGOs in this period, such as the African Business Roundtable (1990),
the African Refugees Foundation (1993), Africa Humanitarian Action
(1994), the Africa Infrastructure Foundation (1994) and the African
Women Empowerment Guild (1995). Among Arabic-speaking countries notable new INGOs included the Arab NGO Network for Environment and Development (1990) and the Arab NGO Network for
Development (1996).222
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The prospect of a new millennium was perceived by many transnational civil society actors to be a significant opportunity to extend their
efforts. Motivated by the belief that the Biblical tradition calls for a Jubilee year, when slaves are set free and debts cancelled, the first Jubilee
2000 campaign was formally launched in 1996 by a coalition of UKbased Christian and development INGOs.223 By the year 2000 there were
sixty-nine associated coalitions around the world, and the signatures of
24 million people in more than sixty countries had been acquired for a
petition demanding the cancellation of unaffordable debts of poor countries.224 It is claimed that the Jubilee 2000 movement achieved levels of
debt cancellation far beyond what its supporters initially thought possible and moved donors to more than double the amount of debt relief on
offer through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative of the international financial institutions.225
In the first year of the new millennium, an even bolder transnational
civil society project was launched: the World Social Forum (WSF). The
progenitor of this initiative was a Brazilian entrepreneur, Oded Grajew,
who had played an important role in promoting corporate social responsibility and wider dialogue between business and civil society in Brazil
through organizations such as the Ethos Institute for Business and Social
Responsibility. At the time of the World Economic Forum in 2000,
Grajew put forward the idea for an alternative forum to show to people
that another globalization is possible. Another world is possible when
you make the first step the social, not the economic.226 The support of a
range of Brazilian and international NGOs was secured (including the
Landless Workers Movement, the Brazilian Business Association for
Citizenship and ATTAC), as was the financial assistance of the Ford
Foundation and the Workers Party-controlled Brazilian regional authorities, enabling the first World Social Forum to take place in January 2001,
which brought together 5,000 civil society representatives from 117 countries in addition to thousands of activists from Brazil.227 The organizers
decided that the Forum should continue as an open meeting place for
reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals,
free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by
groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism
and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism,
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The optimism of the World Social Forums slogan another world is

possible was mirrored in the considerable literature on the rise of transnational civil society that had developed over the course of the 1990s. In
one study of the subject published at the turn of the millennium, for
instance, Ann Florini argued that the power of transnational civil society manifests itself at virtually every stage of policy making and transnational civil society may be creating the basis of a global polity.229 New
research centres were established in multiple universities dedicated to
the study of the apparently emerging global civil society, and the Centre
for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science used the onset of the new millennium to launch
a series of Global Civil Society yearbooks, the objective of whichto provide the beginnings of a systematic profile of the contours, composition,
and developments of global civil societyechoed that of the Annuaires
de la Vie Internationale produced by the International Institute of Peace
and the Union of International Associations nearly a century earlier.230
A common characteristic of much of this literature was emphasis upon
apparent achievements of transnational civil society in the 1990s, the significance of which may be called into question. For example, one of the
most celebrated apparent achievements was the supposed significant victory of a coalition of peace associations in persuading governments to
adopt UN resolutions asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or
World Court, for its first-ever advisory opinion on the legal status of the
threat or use of nuclear weapons in 1996.231 The outcome was an ambiguous opinion, arguing both that the threat or use of nuclear weapons
would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable
in armed conflict, and in particular the principles and rules of humanitarian law and that there is in neither customary nor conventional international law any comprehensive and universal prohibition of the threat
or use of nuclear weapons as such.232 Moreover, given thatas the Court
itself highlighted in its opinionthe Court states the existing law and
does not legislate, the World Court Project was of limited significance
in terms of transforming international law, let alone states practices.233
The situation was similar in respect of many other celebrated campaigns
of the 1990s, such as the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
When receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of this organization, Jody
Williams proclaimed that Together we are a superpower!234 However,
this claim looks somewhat hollow if it is considered that all of the states
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with a realistic claim to superpower statusChina, Russia and the United

Statesremain non-signatories to the Ottawa Landmines Convention.
Apparent achievements such as the World Court opinion on nuclear weapons and the Ottawa Landmines Convention seem small, indeed, compared with many of the major developments to which INGOs contributed
in earlier periods of history discussed in this volume.235
Further developments that appeared to signal the ascent of transnational civil society in the 1990s may also be called into question. The
expansion in the number of INGOs, for instance, may reflect a growing
division of transnational civil society into low-membership organizations. Theda Skocpol observed that at the national level in the United
States between the 1970s and the 1990s older voluntary membership
federations rapidly dwindled, while new social movements and professionally managed civic organizations took to the field in huge numbers.236
The same can be said of developments internationally. Older mass-
membership organizations saw participation rates dwindle, especially in
the case of the labour movement: a 1997 International Labour Organization report indicated that workers organizations are experiencing serious difficulties almost everywhere and are losing members.237 Even an
organization as venerable as the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies appears to have seen its membership halve
during the 1990s, following an increase during the 1980s.238
While large-membership organizations commonly witnessed declining participation, the number of exceptionally specialist INGOs increased
remarkably in the 1990s. Examples from 1993 include the International
Hologram Manufacturers Association, the World Association of Lebanese
Neurosurgeons and the World Potato Congress. This proliferation of specialist INGOs echoes that which took place in the decade before the
First World War, although many of the concerns of that period, such as
temperance and Esperanto, had long since faded in popularity.
It has commonly been argued that as older, hierarchical, membershipbased INGOs faced declining participation, transnational civil society in
the 1990s increasingly featured more horizontal, decentralized, networkbased forms of mobilization, such as became especially prominent in the
development of the global justice movement.239 Some argue that within
this movement there developed submerged networks such as the Movement Against Economic Globalization (INPEG) that come to the fore
only around certain campaigns or exercise resistance through a particu
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lar lifestyle.240 It is commonly argued that these attempts to practice politics in horizontal network-based ways are meant to be more
participatory and democratic than conventional structures.241 However,
as David Chandler has argued, the rejection of mass politics that is
characteristic of these forms of mobilization may instead reflect the ascendance of a new breed of post-modern activist [who] is more concerned
to act as a moral individual than to engage in collective political action.242
As well as being characterized by diminished reliance upon mass membership politics, transnational civil society in the decade following the
end of the Cold War also featured a growing homogenization of activities. The dataset on transnational social movement organizations
(TSMOs) produced by Smith and Wiest indicates that the proportion
of TSMOs with a multi-issue focus following 1988 was approximately
double that in the period before 1976.243 Many INGOs that had previously developed a strong reputation in particular fields broadened the
scope of their activities far beyond their initial areas of concern in the
1990s. In the case of aid and development INGOs, a noted trend was a
growing concern for international advocacy among those that had previously primarily focused on service delivery. The various national Oxfams,
for instance, united in 1995 to form an international advocacy office in
Washington, DC.244 Oxfam International, which was founded in the
same year, concerned itself not only with issues with which the Oxfams
had traditionally been associated such as emergency relief and aid
distribution, but also issues as varied as peace and security, indigenous
peoples rights and climate change.245 From the opposite direction, organizations initially primarily concerned with civil and political human
rights increasingly turned their attention to issues such as poverty and
armed conflict, with for instance Amnesty International becoming
increasingly involved in these issues under the direction of Pierre San.246
The blurring of agendas became most apparent in the development of
coalitions with the aim of resisting economic neo-liberalism: a Friends
of the Earth spokesperson was quoted in 2002 stating that For the past
10 years we have been locating ourselves more in the bigger economic
debate By the time that we got to Seattle we are all campaigning on
the same basic trend.247
However, far from undermining neo-liberal globalization, much of
transnational civil society became co-opted by it.248 In the post-Cold War
era, businesses became increasingly adept at forming INGOs of their
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own to campaign on the major issues of the era. In 1995, for instance,
the World Business Council for Sustainable Development was created,
which has the aim of promoting business leadership as a catalyst for sustainable development and to support the business license to operate,
innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues.249 As for INGOs of independent origin, these increasingly cooperated with businesses in multi-stakeholder initiatives such as
the Ethical Trading Initiative (1998), the Fair Labor Association (1998),
the Global Reporting Initiative (1997) and Social Accountability International (1997). The effect of the homogenization of INGOs activities
and their co-optation by business has been a diminishing of genuine
alternatives at the global level.250
At the regional level, on the other hand, divisions within transnational
civil society became increasingly apparent in the 1990s. Divisions in
transnational civil society along EastWest lines that had emerged during the Cold War continued into the post-Cold War era, even as intergovernmental relations improved: in respect of the international trade
union movement, for instance, the division between the World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions was to continue to the present day.251 As for the NorthSouth
divide, Jackie Smith has noted that whereas before the mid 1980s, most
transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) organized across
the NorthSouth divide since the mid 1980s data show that more
TSMOs are organized exclusively within either the global North or
South.252 Whereas 72 per cent of TSMOs formed before 1990 were
transregional, this was the case in respect of only 47 per cent of those
formed after 1989.253 According to Smith this reflects the seizing of new
regional opportunity structures provided by institutions such as the European Union, but she acknowledges that polarization may explain
some of this shift towards regional organizing.254
Regional polarization of transnational civil society in the decade following the end of the Cold War was exacerbated by many of the activities of those aiming to work across the NorthSouth divide. While a
convergence of environmentalist and development agendas is suggested
by the ascent of sustainable development discourse in the post-Cold War
era, a number of campaigns with this agenda in mind have been vulnerable to the critique that the environmental dimension has been promoted
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observed in relation to campaigns opposing the development of large

dams, such as Nam Theun 2, which faced NGO reports [that] exaggerated the biodiversity importance of the future reservoir basin, much
of which was already degraded and which ignored the extreme impoverishment of the local population, as well as the possibility of much greater
destruction if dam-building were to take place without World Bank safeguards.255 Transnational non-governmental campaigns with well-intended
objectives in the 1990s all too commonly had counterproductive outcomes, such as the promotion in 1993 in the United States of a ban on
textile imports made by child labour that may have forced young girls
into much more abusive forms of work such as street trading, domestic
work, and prostitution.256 The movement against the Multilaterial Agreement on Investment may also have fought the wrong enemy in opposing an agreement that may have benefited developing economies.257
Much of the infrastructure of transnational civil society in the postCold War years remained geographically limited: three-quarters of
TSMOs, for instance, were still headquartered in the global North.258
North-based humanitarian and development INGOs were particularly
vulnerable to critique for their questionable legitimacy and accountability, given the social divide between those whom they aimed to serve and
those on whom they depended for funding.259 It has commonly been
noted that in the development field in the post-Cold War era there was
a rapid growth in NGO service provision, as neoliberal development
policies emphasized a decreasing role for governments as direct service providers.260 The substantial role for NGOs in some developing
countries may have had the impact of weakening already fragile state
institutions.261 It has even been argued that humanitarian assistance may
have contributed towards the collapse of state structures in 1990s
Somalia.262 The weakening by transnational civil society actors of state
structures in developing countries was one among the many factors that
helped to open up space for illiberal non-state actors. Failed states became
bases for fundamentalist organizations, including groups associated with
al-Qaeda, which was responsible for the terrorist attacks on the United
States of 11 September 2001 that were to have a profound effect upon
international relations, including transnational civil society.263
Whereas between 1999 and 2000 the number of recorded INGOs had
increased from 17,364 to 18,323, the figure dropped in 2001 to 18,067.264
Although INGO numbers appear to have recovered in the subsequent
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seven years, much of this expansion was accounted for by continued

regional polarization of transnational civil society: estimates indicate that
regional INGOs increased in number at a rate 81 per cent greater than
other INGOs.265 The developing transnationalization of far right and
other extremist groups was a key feature of the polarization of the first
decade of the twenty-first century.266 It has been argued that In terms
of the positions on globalisation, it could be said that the early 2000s
were dominated by regressives and rejectionists (neoliberals, global warriors and jihadists, and those who favour a return to the nation state and
sovereignty).267 By contrast, many liberal INGOs that had previously
flourished in the late twentieth century were to collapse in the new millennium. Amongst the most notorious examples was the International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, which according to its former
President was forced to submit a request of bankruptcy in 2007 on
account of the organizations former financial manager having embezzled a large amount of money over several years.268 Wider aspects of
global civil society deteriorated in the first decade of the twenty-first
century, too: for instance, World Values Survey data indicate that the
importance attached to tolerance and respect for other people in China,
India and the United States, having increased in the 1990s, decreased in
the first decade of the twenty-first century.269
The financial crisis of 2008 further compounded the challenges facing
transnational civil society. After two decades of growth, development aid
originating from non-governmental sources fell in 2009 by 7 per cent.270
For some INGOs, revenues decreased dramatically: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for instance, saw net
voluntary contributions decline from CHF 459,569,000 in 2008 to CHF
287,282,000 in 2009.271 INGO numbers declined again, as they had done
in 2001, with an estimated 21,991 operating in 2008 falling to 21,684 in
2009.272 Among the casualties of the financial crisis was Healthlink Worldwide (formerly Appropriate Health Resources Technologies Action
Group), which was dissolved following a severe financial shortfall for the
organisations running costs.273 In contrast to the considerable international coordination of transnational civil society mobilization in response
to economic globalization in earlier years, it has been argued that the reaction of civil society to the global crisis of 2008 mainly emerged at the
national level in the immediate aftermath of the crisis.274
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to have had limited impact. This was especially evident in respect of the
Beijing Platform for Action agreed at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, in which it was widely thought that the role of NGOs
was highlighted, perhaps more strongly than ever before and which was
believed at the time to have established clearly that women are a global
force for the twenty-first century.275 A decade later, the United Nations
official responsible for supporting the negotiations argued that it seems
that we were wrong The ten-year review was barely able to adopt an
anodyne one-page declaration that said that the Platform was still valid.276
Many of the campaigns that appeared to have been successful in the
1990s were to face insurmountable obstacles in the following decade.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, for instance, proved
unable to convince the leading non-signatories to the Ottawa Landmines
ConventionChina, Russia and the United Statesto adjust their position. In some cases, INGOs activities may have impeded progress. Negotiations taking forward the climate change arrangements agreed at the
1992 Rio Earth Summit, for example, made greater progress at the 2010
Cancun talks, at which INGOs were comparatively marginalized, than
at the 2009 Copenhagen summit, at which non-governmental lobbying
efforts were greatly more extensive, and following which the Director of
the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development, Juergen
Maier, challenged NGOs to take a self-critical look at themselves and
ask to what extent they actually contributed to the poor result of the climate negotiations.277
The large collaborative projects of international non-governmental
actors that had become a key feature of transnational civil society by the
turn of the millennium commonly failed to meet the expectations that
they had raised. In the case of the most ambitious initiative, the World
Social Forum, the first few years of its existence witnessed remarkable
growth: regional social forums were established in Europe and Africa in
2002 and in Asia in 2003, and participation in the global event peaked
at 155,000 in 2005, a year in which large-scale global civil society events
of all types also reached a peak.278 However, despite their events being
held in three locations around the world in 2006, participation in the
WSF declined that year by nearly a quarter.279 It was to fall again when
held in Nairobi the following year, by which time accusations of having
descended into just another NGO fair had become prevalent.280 According to Karen Worth and Owen Buckley, the WSF had become a funfair
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for the expression of ideas from academics and NGO/government workers, which has led to a form of elitism that the WSF attempted to avoid
at its inception.281 The WSFs claim that another world is possible has
looked increasingly hollow.
New transnational coalitions of NGOs formed in the first decade of
the twenty-first century commonly found that they were unable to build
on the apparent achievements of earlier coalitions. A notable example is
the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) formed in 2004,
which with more than 100 national coalitions and over 300 supporting
organizations from six continents claims to be the worlds largest civil
society movement calling for an end to poverty and inequality.282 While
its aims echo those of the earlier Jubilee 2000 campaign, GCAP has to
date failed to emulate its achievements. Although GCAP appeared to
play an important role in persuading G8 leaders in 2005 to double Official Development Assistance, Willetts has argued that governments in
practice did not deliver on this promise.283
As for loose, horizontal transnational networks of activists, even highly
extensive examples of these often failed to wield the influence they desired
in the years following the attacks of 11 September 2001. Amongst the
most notable cases were the mobilizations in opposition to the US-led
intervention in Iraq in 2003. On a day of transnationally coordinated
action, 15 February 2003, 16 million people around the world are estimated to have protested against the intervention.284 Hailed by some
authors as a peaceful superpower, the movement could do nothing to
prevent the invasion that took place the next month.285 In the reconstruction activities following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan in 2001
and Iraq in 2003, many aid organizations found that they could not effectively carry out humanitarian work and had to leave, their activities paralleled by those of US governmental initiatives.286
The resilience of the state in the twenty-first century is an often-noted
phenomenon.287 While there are many aspects to this resilience, several
of the most notable apply to the states relationship with INGOs and
transnational civil society. In some respects, governments ability to
exclude non-state actors from decision-making may have been enhanced
in the twenty-first century. At the international level, for instance, the
new millennium saw previous consultative mechanisms of intergovernmental organizations dissolved, such as the NGOWorld Bank Committee, which was replaced by a World BankCivil Society Forum; this

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Forum has been accused of pitting northern and southern NGOs against
one another and having greatly reduced the influence of international
NGOs.288 At the national level, governments may also have enhanced
their ability to limit the activities of transnational civil society actors,
such as through legislation requiring compulsory registration of NGOs.289
It may further be argued that governments have increased their capa
city to manipulate INGOs. Amongst the best-known mechanisms is
making INGOs dependent on governments for funding: between 2008
and 2009 alone government funding of humanitarian NGOs is estimated
to have increased by 10 per cent.290 A more direct means of manipulation has been through initiation of GONGOs (government-organized
non-governmental organizations), recent examples of which may include
the International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty (apparently a Russian government front organization)291 and Hugo
Chavezs Bolivarian Circles.292
States resilience in the twenty-first century has been commonly underpinned by reinvigorated nationalism. Echoing the situation 100 years
before, it has been argued that in the early twenty-first century ethnic
nationalism appears to be the worlds most ubiquitous, intractable and
devastating socio-political force.293 While much of the evidence for transnational civil society may be impressive, the scale of nationalist sentiment may be even greater. A comparison between two of the worlds
largest petitions is indicative: whereas that of the internationalist Jubilee 2000 coalition acquired 24 million adherents in 166 countries, a petition circulated in China five years later opposing Japanese permanent
membership of the United Nations Security Council appears to have
received the support of 41 million people in forty-one countries.294
The limitations of transnational civil society in the first decade of the
new millennium are explained by a range of factors, including dynamics
both external and internal to transnational civil society. As has been outlined in the foregoing paragraphs the geopolitical divisions of the twentyfirst century along regional and religious lines formed the context within
which transnational civil society also became increasingly regionally
divided. The economic downturn towards the end of the decade has further been shown to have constrained the resources of transnational civil
society actors. More generally, the broad context of globalization, which
in the late twentieth century was facilitative of the flourishing of transnational civil society, at the same time facilitated the development of
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transnational non-state actors that use far from civil methods, such as
global terrorist networks, as well as xenophobic nationalist movements
which may prey on those struggling to compete in the globalized world
economy.295 Even the information technologies which have in some
respects facilitated transnational civil society mobilization have also
proven effective as instruments of governmental monitoring and suppression of civil society activities.296
Transnational civil society itself may have contributed towards the processes which limited its operation in the early twenty-first century. The
development of fundamentalist and nationalist groups that challenge the
values of transnational civil society, for instance, may in part be a reaction to a perceived threat to local cultures of the supposedly global concerns of transnational civil society actors, which all too commonly have
been susceptible to portrayal as virtually a fifth column for Western interests.297 Acceptance of governmental funding by INGOs can enhance
such perceptions, which are compounded by the susceptibility of many
INGOs to accusations of being unelected and accountable only to their
funders.298 One of the most prominent trends of the twenty-first century has been the apparent co-optation of transnational civil society actors
by corporate and governmental agents of neo-liberal globalization, not
only through funding but also through integration in multi-stakeholder
corporate social responsibility schemes. This may have contributed to the
appeal of fundamentalist and nationalist alternatives.
Despite the setbacks of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
transnational civil society actors were not without achievements in this
period. For instance, although there was waning governmental interest
in United Nations global conferences following the mega conferences
of the 1990s,299 non-governmental access may have increased, such as at
the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
at which civil society representatives were consulted at multiple stages
of negotiations.300 In addition, although the number of new transnational coalitions of INGOs declined, some of those that were established
were not without impact, such as the Cluster Munition Coalition established in 2003 which is credited with playing a role in securing the 2008
Convention on Cluster Munitions.301 In respect of humanitarian relief,
it is thought that, in response to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, INGOs broke new ground in terms of the extent of their
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Although the Cold War division of the international trade union movement between the World Federation of Trade Unions and the free trade
unions continued into the twenty-first century, other divisions in the
international trade union movement were reconciled, with the Christian trade unions in the World Confederation of Labour joining with
ICFTU in 2006 to form the International Trade Union Confederation
(ITUC). Another notable development in the early twenty-first century
was the proliferation of solidarity economy networks that endeavoured
to show how genuine alternatives to neo-liberal economic globalization
were viable, such as the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of
the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS).303 Other novel INGOs took
further the exploitation of new technologies to advance social causes,
notably Avaaz, which operates only through the Internet, mobilizing
more than 2 million supporters in online petitions on multiple issues,
and which is said to have had an astonishing impact at the 2007 Bali
climate change summit, when the Canadian governments delegation
credited Avaaz with motivating the delegations change of position.304
Considerable efforts were also made by existing INGOs to address
criticisms of their accountability and legitimacy. The first decade of the
twenty-first century saw the establishment of new coalitions directly
addressing the issue of INGO accountability, such as the Humanitarian
Accountability Project. In 2006, the International NGOs Accountability Charter was launched, aiming to be the authoritative voice and standard code of practice for all INGOs.305 Other coalitions made efforts
towards diversifying their membership beyond their rich-country origins: Publish What You Pay, for example, expanded from a coalition of
six OECD-based groups in 2002 to a global campaign of 600 groups by
2011, four-fifths of which were based in developing countries.306 In the
reverse direction, some INGOs previously based in developing countries
set up fund-raising offices in developed countries: for instance, the
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which claims to
be the largest development organisation in the world employing more
than 60,000 people opened resource mobilisation organisations in Great
Britain and the United States in 2006.307
The bridging of geographical divides by the transformed structures of
organizations such as BRAC and Publish What You Pay was paralleled
by efforts towards bridging cultural divides by other elements of transnational civil society. While peace activism such as that in opposition to
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the Iraq invasion of 2003 may have failed to prevent the intervention, it
has been credited with helping to challenge perceptions of a so-called
clash of civilizations at the popular level.308 Possibly the largest petition
ever to have been gathered apparently obtained in 2008 the support of
more than 60 million Pakistanis in opposition to terrorism.309 There were
also numerous new initiatives in the early twenty-first century aimed
specifically at the promotion of intercultural dialogue and understanding, such as the Anna Lindh Foundation established in 2005 and claiming to run the largest and most diverse Network of civil society
organizations involved in the promotion of intercultural dialogue across
the Mediterranean, and the Global Movements of Moderates launched
in Malaysia in 2012 as a loose confederation of like-minded individuals, organisations, state-actors, non-state actors and intelligentsia committed to promoting an enduring and just peace by beseeching the need
for critical engagement that corresponds to the universal principles of
justice, excellence and equilibrium.310
In regions of the world that at the time remained dominated by illiberal forms of government, there were signs of opening up and development of civil society space at the onset of the twenty-first century. In
China, for instance, a 700 per cent increase in social unrest instances was
noted in the decade to 2004, as was growth in registered and unregistered NGOs.311 In 2007, the worlds largest ever text message campaign
is credited with resulting in the suspension of plans for the building of
a chemical plant in Xiamen.312 Among Arab countries, numerous Arab
reform initiatives were launched in the first decade of the twenty-first
century, with 2004 alone witnessing the Arab NGOs Beirut Summit,
the Doha Declaration of Democracy and Reform, the Alexandria Charter and the Sanaa Declaration.313 Initiatives for the promotion of human
rights in Arab states also multiplied, including the Arab Centre for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Education (2000) and
the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (2003). More significantly, protest movements such as Kifaya in Egypt have been associated with a new emphasis on political ethics and social civility to
replace preoccupations with political Islam of the 1990s.314
The Arab Spring of 2011, for which movements such as Kifaya provided part of the context, featured significant transnational dimensions.
In addition to regional dynamics such as the demonstration effects of
developments in Tunisia upon other Arab countries, there were signifi
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cant transregional processes. In the case of the Egyptian revolution, for

instance, activists leading the 6 April youth movement that played a crucial role in organizing demonstrations in January 2011 were trained by
an INGO set up in Serbia in 2003 to support nonviolent democratic
movements through transfer of knowledge on strategies and tactics of
nonviolent struggle worldwide.315 A better-known transregional
dynamic in the Arab Spring has been the role of global social media such
as Facebook and Twitter.316 The events in Arab countries were in turn to
influence protest movements further afield, including for political reform
in China and Russia, as well as the Occupy movement in the United
States and beyond which claimed to be fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process.317
Given the context of the Arab Spring and its effects, it might appear
that the second decade of the twenty-first century marks the onset of a
new cycle in the evolution of transnational civil society.318 Statistics from
the beginning of the decade may support this assertion. Having previously fallen, INGO numbers appear to have risen in 2010 by 6.4 per
cent.319 Similarly, it appears that some INGOs recovered in 2010 from
the economic fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, with the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies net voluntary contributions in 2010 nearly double those of 2009.320
Despite indications of recovery such as these, transnational civil society remains in a fragile state in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Many of the efforts towards reform of transnational civil society
actors remain limited: the International NGOs Accountability Charter,
for example, acquired the participation of just twenty-five INGOs as full
members by June 2013.321 Initiatives for reform of international economic
relations, such as solidarity economy networks, also remain exceptionally
limited. Furthermore, governments have retained considerable ability to
control and curtail civil society actors: four-fifths of the growth of registered NGOs in China, for instance, is accounted for by the formation of
GONGOs.322 Many of the principal efforts towards intercultural dialogueincluding the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Global Movement
of Moderatesare also of governmental rather than grassroots origin,
while non-governmental efforts towards transnationalization of the far
right, such as the attempt to create a pan-European anti-Islamic alliance,
have persisted.323 At the grassroots level, regional and religious divisions
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continue to limit the prospects for transnational civil society: while new
liberal actors may have been critical to the protests that facilitated the
removal of authoritarian leaders in the Arab Spring, it is religious movements including and inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that
have tended to benefit electorally.324 As yet, transnational civil society has
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CONCLUSION
Transnational civil society and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), far from being new forces in international politics
as is all too commonly assumed in existing work,1 have been shown in
this volume to have an extensive history, dating to the eighteenth century and even earlier. This volume has further revealed the considerable
significance of these phenomena in the major transformations of world
politics in the last two centuries. From specific developments such as the
French and American Revolutions, the formation of the League of
Nations and United Nations, decolonization and the ending of the Cold
War, to wider phenomena such as democratization and the reduced conceivability of direct great power war, the contemporary history of international relations is incomplete without taking into account the role of
transnational civil society actors.
The scale of transnational civil society activities in the past has commonly exceeded that of such activities in the present, especially if participation as a proportion of the worlds population is taken into account.
If one compares, for example, transnational mobilization for disarmament in the early 1930s with global justice mobilization in the postCold War era, a greater proportion of the worlds population signed the
1930s womens disarmament petition than the Jubilee 2000 petition, and
a greater proportion of the worlds population took part in the International Consultative Group than the Global Call to Action against Poverty.2 Transnational civil society may also be more divided in the present
day than in earlier phases: whereas before the Second World War the
majority of INGOs claimed to be universal, the splits which developed
in the Cold War era have in many cases continued in the post-Cold War
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remains divided between the World Federation of Trade Unions and the
International Trade Union Confederation. Furthermore, apparent
achievements of transnational civil society in the post-Cold War era,
such as the Ottawa landmines convention, limited debt reduction agreements and the collapse of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment,
appear small indeed when compared with earlier developments to which
transnational civil society contributed, such as the abolition of the slave
trade and womens enfranchisement in many countries.
As this volume has also revealed, accounts of the origins of the two
World Wars and the Cold War, and perceptions of a supposed clash of
civilizations, are also incomplete without reference to transnational civil
society actors. So, while it has been common to believe that the evolution of transnational civil society has taken place in a linear pattern, this
volume has suggested an alternative, cyclical account. Peaks of transnational civil society activism were reached in the first decade of the twentieth century, the early 1930s and the late 1990s. In each of these periods,
INGOs formed large coalitions around major issues, and made claims
with respect to their apparently unprecedented significance. In all
three cases, such assertions were followed by periods of contraction and
fragmentation.
Just as globalization and fragmentation in general terms have tended
to exist in a dialectical relationship,3 so too have liberal transnational civil
society actors and illiberal forms of mobilization, whether internationalism and nationalism before the First World War, or global justice activism and religious intolerance in the contemporary era. In its exploration
of each of the three major peaks and troughs of transnational civil society activism, this volume has shown the importance of technological
changes, environmental factors, economic developments, social changes
and external political circumstances, as well as of transnational civil society itself in explaining the evolution. In the case of all these factors, there
is an important distinction to be made between short-term and longterm impacts. In some cases, such as the World Wars, factors that in the
short term have been inhibitive of transnational civil society activities
have in the long term facilitated reconstruction. On the other hand, in
the case of many other factors, while in the short term the impact upon
transnational civil society may have been facilitative, in the long term the
factor has also served to undermine the phenomenon.
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The Three Waves of Transnational Civil Society

Before the mid eighteenth century, the variety of what are now termed
INGOs was limited, consisting of institutions such as religious orders,
charities, missionary societies, merchant associations, fraternal societies
and scientific bodies. The period from the mid eighteenth until the mid
nineteenth centuries was a significant period of transition, as multiple
new INGOs were formed in a greatly expanded variety of fields, including, inter alia, anti-slavery, art, communication, communism, cooperation, education, exploration, imperial trading, indigenous rights, lifesaving,
peace, prison reform, republicanism, standardization, vaccination and
womens emancipation. Although many of these associations were shortlived and geographically limited in scope, they provided precedents for
the more numerous, more enduring and more diverse INGOs that were
established from the 1870s until the 1890s. At the onset of the twentieth century the number of INGOs could be counted in the hundreds,
and some, such as the International Co-operative Alliance, could count
their membership in the millions. The geographical reach of many INGOs
by this point was already intercontinental, and their influence had been
evident in national policy (in respect of womens right to vote in Oceania),
international policy (at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference) and transnational policy (in the setting of transnational standards such as the phonetic alphabet). Following the formation in the first decade of the
twentieth century of large transnational coalitions of INGOs, such as at
the second Hague Conference and in the form of the Union of International Associations, the second decade of the twentieth century, even
before the onset of the First World War, saw INGO formations and
international meetings decline, and dissolutions of INGOs increase
dramatically.4
While some sectors of transnational civil society failed to recover from
the impact of the First World War, for others, particularly INGOs beyond
Europe and those concerned with post-war reconstruction, the First World
War provided new opportunities. Following this conflict, INGO growth
took place at a rate even greater than in the nineteenth century, and many
of the new INGOs of this era were more concerned with practical action
and had a larger membership and financial base than those preceding the
war. Transnational civil society had a significant impact on the Paris peace
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of Nations in turn developed an extensive working relationship with

INGOs, exceeding that of the United Nations era, and in the 1920s
INGOs had a wider influence, such as in the development of the Dawes
Plan. As in the period preceding the First World War, however, the 1930s
saw the formation of large transnational coalitions of INGOs, such as the
International Consultative Group, just as INGO revenues, memberships
and new formations began to decline, governmental manipulation of
INGOs increased, and transnational civil society became increasingly
polarized along the geopolitical divisions of the period.
The Second World War had a similar impact on transnational civil
society to the First, its initial detrimental consequences counterbalanced
by the facilitation of organizational expansion beyond Europe and in
response to the conflicts consequences. Sectors of transnational civil society played a part in the deterioration of international relations culminating in the Cold War, a period during which transnational civil society
experienced divisions along not only EastWest but also NorthSouth
lines following decolonization in Asia and Africa. Nevertheless, the Cold
War and decolonization also provided the context for even more rapid
expansion in INGO numbers and geographical spread than at any time
previously. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the development of new social movements, new transnational networks, and new
targets such as transnational corporations and the problems associated
with the NorthSouth and EastWest divisions, to the diminution of
which sectors of transnational civil society contributed. At the onset of
the new millennium, INGO numbers were approximately 100 times
greater than a hundred years previously, and in the late twentieth century transnational civil society had contributed towards developments
varying from the creation of the internet to the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court. By this time, however, there had again
developed large transnational coalitions of INGOs claiming to represent
wide sectors of transnational civil society, as the divisions that were to
polarize transnational civil society in the first decade of the twenty-first
century became more apparent.
Explaining the Three Waves

In each of the three waves of transnational civil society explored in this
volume, factors identified in the Introduction in Table 1, including the
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technological, environmental, economic, social and political contexts as

well as factors internal to transnational civil society itself, played a role
in the short-term ascent and long-term descent of transnational civil
society.5 With respect to technological factors, periods of rapid growth
in transnational associational activity took place in the context of improvements in communications, such as the electrical telegraph, railways and
the steamship in the nineteenth century, radio and air travel in the 1920s,
and the internet more recently. On the other hand, technological developments have also provided the context for phases of decline, especially
when harnessed by governments, such as in pursuit of the First and Second World Wars or in the monitoring of civil society actors electronic
communications more recently. Environmental developments, too, have
been both facilitative of transnational non-state action, given their crossborder nature that inhibits governments abilities to handle them on their
own, and also detrimental when acting as a source of conflict over scarce
resources. Phases of rapid expansion of transnational civil society have
occurred in parallel with phases of increased economic interdependence,
such as in the late nineteenth century and in the period following the
World Wars. In the context of downturns in the economic cycle, such as
in the 1930s and following the financial crisis of 2008, on the other hand,
contraction has also taken place in transnational civil society, with INGO
revenues declining in each of these periods. Social changes, such as urbanization, international migration and cognitive liberation of populations
from traditional ways of thinking towards global consciousness, have
formed the context for phases of expansion of transnational civil society,
but have also provided targets for those still attached to traditional rather
than cosmopolitan ideas.
The external political context has played a particularly vital role in the
evolution of INGOs and transnational civil society. The contrasting shortterm detrimental and long-term facilitative contributions of the World
Wars and the Cold War to the development of transnational civil society have been highlighted in the previous section of this chapter. In the
case of many other external political factors, the contrast has been between
short-term facilitative impacts and long-term detriment. The dialectical
relationship between globalization and fragmentation has been especially
significant in the evolution of transnational civil society. In the nineteenth century, the consolidation of the nation-state, nationalism and
imperialism each had both short-term facilitative and long-term centrif
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ugal impacts on transnational civil society. In the post-war era, decolonization similarly facilitated not only expansion of the geographical reach
and issue-area scope of transnational civil society actors, but also their
division on NorthSouth and regional lines. Political opportunity structures, such as the worlds fairs, the creation of the League of Nations and
the convening of United Nations global summits, provided foci for
expanding transnational civil society activities in the late nineteenth century, 1920s and 1990s respectively. In the long term, however, there was
a detrimental impact when these opportunity structures were withdrawn,
as worlds fairs and United Nations global conferences fell out of favour
and as the League of Nations withdrew from cooperation with INGOs.
Amongst the factors that should not be overlooked in explaining both
the ascent and decline of transnational civil society are dynamics within
transnational civil society itself. In the expansion of transnational civil
society, processes of diffusion have been critical, for instance the emulation of precedents in organizational structure set by INGOs such as the
World Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations and the International Statistical Institute in the nineteenth century, and the diffusion of
civil society ideas and non-violent resistance tactics between the Western and Eastern blocs in the years culminating in the revolutions of 1989.
Also important has been individual leadership, notable examples including Henri Dunant in the nineteenth century and Peter Benenson in the
twentieth. In phases of decline, exhaustion (such as demobilization following the success of anti-slavery activism in the nineteenth century)
and factionalization (such as the divisions which took place in the 1930s
and 2000s) have both been important. Also playing a part in phases of
decline has been support in transnational civil society for factors contributing to fragmentation in world politics, such as nationalism in the
late nineteenth century, disarmament in the 1930s and substitution for
the welfare roles of fragile states in the post-Cold War era. Developments that in the short term may have been indicative of transnational
civil society successes, such as widespread diffusion of nationalist ideas
in the nineteenth century, slow rearmament in liberal states in the 1930s
and diminished governmental authority in fragile states in the 1990s,
may in the long term have acted centrifugally upon transnational civil
society when exploited by illiberal actors.
Cyclicality in the dynamics internal to the evolution of transnational
civil society is evident in multiple aspects. In phases of expansion of trans180
CONCLUSION
national civil society, a key rationale for the formation of new INGOs
has been to fill an apparent void left following the demise of earlier
groups: this has been observed particularly prominently in the origins of
Amnesty International. In the reverse direction, a consistent theme in
this volume has been the development of over-ambitious goals among
the leadership of some transnational civil society actors just as circumstances have turned against them. In each of the three waves of transnational civil society examined in this volume the demise of transnational
civil society was immediately preceded by the creation of large transnational coalitions of INGOs claiming to speak for the most representative forces of the different countries (in the period before the First World
War), the public opinion of the world (in the period preceding the Second World War) or global civil society (in the period preceding the 11
September 2001 attacks). Such claims revealed detachment from the
developing divisions in transnational civil society and the worlds population more generally in each of these phases, which were ultimately to
overwhelm transnational civil society on each occasion.
Future Possibilities
The second decade of the twenty-first century appears to be a hinge point
in the development of transnational civil society. With developments at
the start of the decade including recovering INGO numbers and funding and the upheavals of the Arab Spring, it might be argued that a new
cycle is beginning, recovering from the divisions that marred transnational civil society in the previous decade. On the other hand, many of
the divisive trends of the early twenty-first century appear to be continuing, such as regionalization of INGOs and considerable popular support
for nationalist and religious fundamentalist social movements. Ironically,
the apparent success of liberal democratic social movements in the popular uprisings of 2011 may be opening up greater political space for those
who challenge the liberal norms commonly associated with transnational
civil society.
If there are any lessons for those claiming to represent transnational
civil society that appear to be justified by the narrative put forward in
this volume, it is that care should be taken not to raise expectations to
an excessive degree. The leadership of INGOs and transnational coalitions of INGOs should avoid claims to speak on behalf of the public

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opinion of the world or global civil society, when such organizations

have only ever represented a segment of the worlds population. Furthermore, those who argue that another world is possible need to consider
the failures of their predecessors to build such alternatives. Liberal internationalists seeking to reform the international system before each of the
two World Wars and Communist idealists who sought an alternative to
capitalist economic relations were to find not only that their alternatives
were to be crushed by the systems to which they were opposed, but also
that their efforts were to worsen the already unpleasant externalities of
the normal operation of the international system and of capitalist economic relations, which in turn set back transnational civil society.
For the historian, it is hoped that this volume has helped open up an
exciting research agenda beyond the governmental concerns that have
been the predominant focus for political history over the last two centuries.6 There is a vast volume of primary source material on transnational
civil society actors which remains to be explored, especially in relation to
early INGOs up to the mid nineteenth century. While this book has
endeavoured to provide a perspective extending beyond just the European
and North American contexts that have dominated research into transnational civil society to date, there remains considerable potential for
greater exploration of the evolution of transnational civil society in Africa,
Asia and South America. Perhaps most importantly of all, this volume
has highlighted the importance not only of exploring the apparent
achievements of transnational civil society on which existing literature
has tended to concentrate, but also the failures of transnational civil society, from which as much may be learned.7
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INTRODUCTION
1.Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press,
2010), p.316.
2.Mary Kaldor, Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003), p.7.
3.Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor, Introducing Global Civil Society, in
Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), p.13.
4.John Keane, Global Civil Society? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p.8.
5.Anheier et al., Introducing Global Civil Society, p.17.
6.Ann M. Florini and P. J. Simmons, What the World Needs Now?, in Ann M. Florini
(ed.), The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000), p.7. For further elaboration of the definition of transnational
see Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Transnational Relations and World Politics: An
Introduction, International Organization, 25/3 (1971), p.331.
7.Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp.200, 2.
8.Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, p.12.
9.Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements
and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1997).
10.See, for instance, Anheier et al., Introducing Global Civil Society, pp.4, 15.
11.Lyman Cromwell White, The Structure of Private International Organizations (Philadephia,
PA: George S. Ferguson Company, 1933).
12.Chapter X. Economic and Social Council, http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/
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13.United Nations document E/INF/23, 30 April 1948, Arrangements of the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations for Consultation with Non-Governmental Organizations: Guide for Consultants, p.16, cited in Lyman Cromwell White, International
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14.The leading repository of data on INGOsthe Union of International Associations
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typically includes only organizations operating in three or more countries (in its categories
A to D), although it also lists internationally-oriented national organizations (in its category G).
15.Peter Willetts, What Is A Non-Governmental Organization?, http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/p.
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16.Peter Willetts, Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics: The Construction of Global
Governance (London: Routledge, 2011), p.30.
17.Q uotations from Shamima Ahmed and David M. Potter, NGOs in International Politics
(Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006), p.ix; Craig Warkentin, Nongovernmental Organizations, in Jan Aart Scholte and Roland Robertson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Globalization
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), p.883; and Sanjeev Khagram and Sarah Alvord, The Rise
of Civic Transnationalism, in Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown (eds.), Transnational
Civil Society: An Introduction (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006), pp.667.
18.Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier and Associates, Civil Society in Comparative
Perspective, in Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List, Stefan Toepler,
S. Wojciech Sokolowski and Associates (eds.), Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999), p.4;
Kaldor, Global Civil Society.
19.Paul S. Reinsch, Public International Unions: Their Work and Organization: A Study In
International Administrative Law (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1911), pp.2, 4.
20.White, Structure of Private International Organizations, p.11.
21.John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International NonGovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999);
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the
Contemporary World (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002), p.11.
22.Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19089 and 191011
(Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1909, 1911).
23.Anheier et al., Introducing Global Civil Society, p.4. See also Charles Chatfield, Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Associations to 1945, in Jackie Smith, Charles
Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics:
Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), p.21.
24.While there is some attention in existing literature to the period preceding 1850, the
coverage remains limited. See, however, Ian Clark, International Legitimacy and World
Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); and Steve Charnovitz, Two Centuries of
Participation: NGOs and International Governance, Michigan Journal of International Law,
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25.John M. Hobson, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004).
26.The English School of international relations, in particular, had a tendency to discuss the
evolution of world politics in terms of the expansion of European international society; see
Hedley Bull and Adam Watson (eds.), The Expansion of International Society (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1984).
27.Michael Barnett, Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2011), p.16.
28.Iriye, Global Community, for instance, limits its coverage to six themes.
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29.Jessica T. Matthews, Power Shift: The Rise of Global Civil Society, Foreign Affairs, 76/1
(1997), pp.50, 53.
30.A notable example is Gordon Laxer and Sandra Halperin (eds.), Global Civil Society and
its Limits (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
31.Ashwani Kumar, Global Civil Society: Emergent Forms of Cosmopolitan Democracy and
Justice, in Ashwani Kumar and Dirk Messner (eds.), Power Shifts and Global Governance:
Challenges from South and North (London: Anthem Press, 2010), p.45.
32.Ahmed and Potter, NGOs in International Politics, p.21.
33.These include Matthews, Power Shift; Florini, Third Force; and Don Eberly, The Rise of
Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up (New York, NY:
Encounter Books, 2008).
34.See especially Iriye, Global Community.
35.Not all existing studies put forward a purely linear perspective: for instance, Charnovitz,
Two Centuries puts forward a cyclical perspective with respect to INGO influence on
intergovernmental bodies, and Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture notes dips in
INGO foundations in the 1910s and 1930s.
36.John Boli, International Nongovernmental Organizations, in Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg, The Non-Profit Sector: A Research Handbook (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2nd edn, 2006), p.334. Some have noted a diminution since then; see Jackie Smith,
Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizations, in Gerald F. Davis,
Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott and Mayer N. Zald (eds.), Social Movements and
Organization Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p.233.
37.Union of International Associations, LUnion des Associations Internationales et la Constitution dun Centre International, in Union of International Associations, Annuaire de
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38.Khagram and Alvord, Rise of Civic Transnationalism, p.67.
39.Helmut K. Anheier, Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan,
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Civil Society 2001, p.221.
40.Thomas Richard Davies, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007), p.114.
41.Anheier, Measuring Global Civil Society, p.229.
42.Hedley Bull, International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach, World Politics, 18/3
(1966), p.361.
43.Numerous publications influenced the composition of this table: see the books cited throughout this volume. Amongst the most significant were: Akira Iriye, Global Community: The
Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2002); Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists
Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1998); Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 17682004 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2004); Dieter Rucht, The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes,
Problems, in Donatella della Porta, Hanspeter Kriesi and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Movements in a Globalizing World (London: Macmillan, 1999), pp.20622; Michael Edwards
and John Gaventa (eds.), Global Citizen Action (London: Earthscan, 2001); Joe Bandy and

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Jackie Smith (eds.), Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005); Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation:
International Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997);
Geir Lundestad, Why Does Globalization Encourage Fragmentation?, International
Politics, 41 (2004), pp.26576; and David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and
Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (Cambridge:
Polity Press, 1999).
44.A broad array of literature was taken into account in the production of this analytical
framework, including that on NGO life cycles, social movement cycles of contention, and
the explanatory frameworks in Charnovitz, Two Centuries, and Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture.
45.On this point, see especially Manuel Castells trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society
and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 19968). See also Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson and Geert
Lovink (eds.), Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006).
46.On the role of technology in the development of transnational civil society in the nineteenth
century see Keane, Global Civil Society?, pp.445.
47.INGOs dealing with information and communications technology consistently raise concerns about this; see, for instance, Association for Progressive Communications, Three
Cyber Evils in South Korea, http://www.apc.org/en/news/three-cyber-evils-south-korea,
last accessed 4 October 2010.
48.Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp.21, 2.
49.See, for instance, Peter H. Gleick, Environment and Security: The Clear Connections,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 47/3 (April 1991), pp.1721.
50.Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, pp.2430.
51.Keane, Global Civil Society?, pp.46, 66.
52.White, International Non-Governmental Organizations, p.6.
53.Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture, p.27.
54.Kaldor, Global Civil Society, p.112.
55.Susan D. Moeller, Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
(New York: Routledge, 1999).
56.Noha Shawki, Political Opportunity Structures and the Outcomes of Transnational Campaigns: A Comparison of Two Transnational Advocacy Networks, Peace & Change, 35/3
(2010), pp.381411.
57.Jackie Smith, Characteristics of the Modern Transnational Movement Sector, in Smith
et al., Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics, p.57.
58.Louis Kriesberg, Social Movements and Global Transformation, in Smith et al., Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics, pp.47.
59.Kaldor, Global Civil Society, p.118.
60.Smith, Characteristics of the Modern Transnational Social Movement Sector, p.57.
61.Anheier et al., Introducing Global Civil Society, p.7.
62.Charnovitz, Two Centuries of Participation, p.270.
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66.Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge:
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67.Tarrow has noted transnational processes such as global issue framing and transnational
diffusion in The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005).
68.Tarrow, Power in Movement, pp.1478.
69.On the resources available to the transnational historian, see Thomas Richard Davies,
Researching Transnational History: The Example of Peace Activism, in Bob Reinalda
(ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors (London: Ashgate, 2011),
pp.3546.
70.Notable (and often overlooked) exceptions include James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds
of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers,
1999); and W. H. van der Linden, The International Peace Movement, 18151874 (Amsterdam: Tilleul, 1987).
71.This is beginning to be addressed; see, for instance, Daniel Laqua (ed.), Internationalism
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20.Their websites are at http://www.newenglandcompany.org and http://www.spck.org.uk
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36.References to these organizations can be found in Mary Thale (ed.), Selections from the
Papers of the London Corresponding Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983),
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37.Universal Society of the Friends of the People, Universal Society of the Friends of the People
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38.George Edwards, Form and Foundation, Views and Laws, proposed for the Consideration of
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39.Society of Universal Good-Will, An Account of the Scots Society in Norwich, from its Rise in
1775 until it received the additional Name of the Society of Universal Good-Will in 1784
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40.William Frederick Poole, Anti-Slavery Opinions before the year 1800 (Cincinnati: Robert

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41.Poole, Anti-Slavery Opinions, p.43.
42.Socit des Amis des Noirs, Discours sur la Ncessit dtablir Paris une Socit pour concourir,
avec celle de Londres, labolition de la traite de lesclavage des Negres. Prononc le 19 fvrier
1788, dans une Socit de quelques amis, rassembls Paris, la prire du Comit de Londres
(Paris: Socit des Amis des Noirs, 1788).
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89.Contrasting accounts are provided in LInternational: Journal des Intrts Communs des
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94.Douglas H. Maynard, The Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 47/3 (1960), p.456.
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96.Maynard, Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention, p.469.
97.Douglas Maynard, Reform and the Origins of the International Organization Movement, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 107/3 (1963), p.220.
98.Elizabeth Frost-Knappman and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, Womens Suffrage in America
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106.This was organized by Georg Varrentrapp, who had visited Britain and wished to promote
the solitary system; see Sebastian Scheerer, The Delinquent as a Fading Category of
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107.The economists meeting was organized by the Belgian Association for Commercial
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branches in Britain, France, Germany, Sardinia, Spain and Switzerland, but remained
predominantly Belgian; see Association Internationale pour les Rformes Douanires,
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108.Annales de la Charit, 1858, pp.2823. Plans for the creation of such an organization can
be traced to Edouard Ducpetiaux, Projet dAssociation pour le Progrs des Sciences et la
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109.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, Civil Society, 17501914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
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110.LOrganisateur du Travail, 9 avril 1848, p.1.
111.Harry Liebersohn, 1848, in Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.), The Palgrave
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112.Van der Linden, International Peace Movement, pp.32253.
113.Louis L. Snyder, Macro-Nationalisms: A History of the Pan-Movements (Westport, CT:
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114.F. dOlincourt, Socit Universelle des Sciences, des Lettres, des Beaux-Arts, de lIndustrie et
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115.Annales de la Charit (1858), p.283.
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117.Frdric Le Play (dir.), Les Ouvriers des Deux Mondes, Tome Premier (Paris: J. Claye, 1857),
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118.Clarence Prouty Shedd, History of the Worlds Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations
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120.Shedd, History of the WYMCA, pp.11314, 102.
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122.Bnai Brith International traces its origins to a New York Jewish fraternal organization
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123.Alliance Isralite Universelle, Alliance Isralite Universelle (Paris: A. Wittersheim, 1860),
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125.Lazar Focsaneanu, Le Droit International de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique,
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126.Le Dr Warlomont, Congrs DOphthalmologie de Bruxelles. Compte-Rendu (Paris: VictorMasson, 1858), pp.vii-viii. The initial members of the Society are listed in Annales
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127.Association Internationale pour le Progrs des Sciences Sociales, Congrs de Bruxelles
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128.Letter of the comit fondateur of the Association Internationale pour le Progrs des Sciences
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144.Grgoire Wyrouboff, Le Congrs de la Paix (Versailles: Cerf, 1867); Sudhir Hazareesingh,
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145.Henry Richard quoted in Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists, p.80.
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153.Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19081909, p.687.
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156.Congrs Mdical International de Paris, Congrs Mdical International de Paris (Paris:
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157.Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19081909, p.1286;
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158.The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1823, the American Oriental
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161.Ibid., p. 272.
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170.Peter Smith, An Introduction to the Bahai Faith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
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171.J. C. L. Sismondi, LAmrique, Revue Encyclopdique, 33 (1827), p.17. An alternative
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172.Q uoted in Maynard, Reform and the Origin of the International Organization Movement, p.220.
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175.John Culbert Faries, The Rise of Internationalism (New York: W. D. Gray, 1915), p.75.
176.Beyond the British and Foreign organizations already mentioned, there were the British
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organizations appeared elsewhere, such as the French and Foreign Bible Society that was
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177.See, for instance, Union of International Associations, Yearbook of International Organizations 1981 (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1981), section U. See also
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178.The data-gathering of the Union of International Associations in the years before the
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179.Existing historical accounts of INGOs have commenced with the 1870s: see, for example,
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184.Charnovitz, Two Centuries of Participation, pp.2012.
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186.Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.127.
187.B. Zorina Khan, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American
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193.Umberto Eco, The Search for the Perfect Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), p.319.
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200.Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19081909, pp.539
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289.There were numerous organizations of the same name throughout Indian cities in the late
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302.Q uoted in Colin David Campbell, Toward a Sociology of Religion (London: Macmillan,
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305.Q uoted in Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.268.
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312.Evans, The Feminists, pp.2467. France was nevertheless important in the development
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313.Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, p.62.
314.Kumari Jayawardena, The White Womans Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia
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315.Article 2 of its constitution, quoted in Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, p.277.
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329.The for Arbitration part of the latter organizations name was dropped in 1908. Ceadel,
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330.Organizations for international law were preceded by the creation of a Society for Comparative Legislation in Paris in 1869; see Peter Cruz, Comparative Law in a Changing
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353.Colette Chabbott, Development INGOs, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.),
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The Carnegie Endowment was preceded by other organizations for the study of international relations, such as the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales and the Association for
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354.Chesley R. Perry, A Page From Rotary History, The Rotarian, February 1931, p.43.
355.The Rotarian, September 1912.
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357.Its activities were preceded by the largely unsuccessful attempts from 1889 to form an
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358.These were known at the time as the International Association of Refrigeration and the
Permanent International Association of Road Congresses.
359.Comit Central de lExposition du Travail Domicile, 1er Congrs International du Travail
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360.Pierre-Yves Saunier, Sketches from the Urban Internationale, 191050: Voluntary Associations, International Institutions and US Philanthropic Foundations, International
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361.International Federation of Trade Unions, First Special International Trade Union Congress,
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362.Van Goethem, Amsterdam International, p.15.
363.Q uoted in van Goethem, Amsterdam International, p.16.
364.Negib Azoury, Le Rveil de la Nation Arabe dans lAsie Turque (Paris: Plon, 1905), pp.245
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365.Brief information on most of the organizations listed in this paragraph is available at
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366.Lyons, Internationalism in Europe, pp.2304.
367.International Labour Office, International Labour Standards, p.5. Plans for much more
extensive labour standards were cut short by the onset of the First World War: Lyons,
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368.Tate, Disarmament Illusion, p.34.
369.Caroline E. Playne, Bertha von Suttner and the Struggle to Avert the World War (London:
George Allen and Unwin, 1936), p.155; Charnovitz, Two Centuries of Participation,
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370.Ascherson, King Incorporated, pp.254, 259.
371.Charnovitz, Two Centuries of Participation, pp.20710.
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connection with and by invitation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (New
York: International Woman Suffrage Headquarters, 1902), p.17. The womens movement
was also joined by more traditionalist INGOs in this period, such as Pro Gentilezza, a
womens INGO formed in Rome in 1910 that aimed to promote la propre gentilesse:
Union of International Associations, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19101911.
374.Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, 1 (1904), p.5.
375.International Electrotechnical Commission, Report of Preliminary Meeting held at the Hotel
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376.International Dairy Federation, Congrs International de Laiterie organis par la Socit
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Sances; Voeux mis (Brussels: K. Brants & Co., 1904), pp.13, 1478, 15960.
377.International Committee of the International Congress of Delegated Representatives of
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379.Erik Bergvall (ed.), The Fifth Olympiad: The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm
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380.These statistics are based on calculations using the data in the Union of International
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be from 73 in the 1890s to 192 in the 1900s: Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales, p.viii.
381.Details of these bodies can be found in the 19081909 and 19101911 editions of the
Union of International Associations Annuaire de la Vie Internationale.
382.Historique de lUnion des Associations Internationales, box PP-PO-210, Union of
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383.Georges Patrick Speeckaert, A Glance at Sixty Years of Activity (19101970) of the Union
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384.Letter of Invitation, in Office Central des Associations Internationales, Congrs Mondial
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385.Office Central des Associations Internationales, Congrs Mondial des Associations Internationales 1910, pp.8317, 83974.
386.Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations, pp.7, 11.
387.Union of International Associations, Congrs Mondial des Associations Internationales,
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388.Q uoted in Joll, Second International, p.156.
389.Boston Chamber of Commerce, Fifth International Congress of Chamber of Commerce and

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390.Norman Angell, Europes Optical Illusion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
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391.Ibid., p. 120.
392.Ibid., p. 104.
393.Q uoted in Olga Hess Hankin and H. H. Fisher, The Bolsheviks and the World War: The
Origins of the Third International (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1940), pp.567.
394.Hoffman, Civil Society, pp.767.
395.Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men, p.334.
396.Q uoted in Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (London: Hurst & Co., 2008),
p.50.
397.Ibid., p. 51.
398.Richard Evans, Rereading German History, 18001996: From Unification to Reunification
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399.Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics I: Papers Communicated to the First
International Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1912), pp.xi-xvii.
400.Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics II: Report of Proceedings of the First
International Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1913), pp.5, 189.
401.Paul Rich, The Baptism of a New Era: The 1911 Universal Races Congress and the
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402.Executive Council of the Universal Races Congress, Record of the Proceedings of the First
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403.Michael D. Biddiss, The Universal Races Congress of 1911, Race, 13/1 (1971), pp.38,
45.
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405.On the early history of the Office Central see Les Annales des Nationalits,1/2 ( JuinJuillet 1912), pp.669.
406.Les Annales des Nationalits, 2/1 ( Janvier 1913), rear inside cover.
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408.
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409.Les Annales des Nationalits, 2/1 ( Janvier 1913), p.37.
410.Paul Otlet, A World Charter, Advocate of Peace, 79/2 (1917), p.44.
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417.Calculations based on UIA data. Speeckaert noted a fall from 131 INGO foundations in
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418.Union of International Associations, Un sicle de Runions internationales, Monthly
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419.Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.478.
421.Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations: A World Center,
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422.On the promotion of nationalism by transnational civil society actors in the early twentieth century, see the above discussion of LIPL, the Union of International Associations
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2.19141939
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Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World
Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007); and Daniel Laqua (ed.), Internationalism Reconfigured:
Transnational Ideas and Movements between the World Wars (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011).
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2006), p.82.
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189.Ibid., p. 638.
190.Ruyssen, League of Nations Societies and their International Federation, p.17.
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194.Speeckaert, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales, p.viii.
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205.Report of the American Committee in Geneva of the League of Nations Association,
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207.Davies, Possibilities of Transnational Activism, pp.2336.
208.Vox Populi Committee, Vox Populi, p.15.
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210.Memorandum concerning future development by Mr and Mrs Pickard, 18 November
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211.Davies, Possibilities of Transnational Activism, p.147.
212.This had included the appointment of peace campaigners to government delegations, such
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256.I bid., pp.21, 27.
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52.Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, Building Peace, pp.xii-xiii.
53.Notter, Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation, pp.4212.
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233.Ibid., p. 15.
234.John D. Clark, The Globalization of Civil Society, in James W. St. G. Walker and
Andrew S. Thompson (eds.), Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), p.17.
235.In the case of both recent developments (such as the Ottawa landmines convention) and
historic developments (such as the League of Nations Covenant), the role of INGOs in
spurring them needs to be balanced with the role of other factors and actors.
236.Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civil
Life (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), p.219.
237.Q uoted in Mark Anner, The Paradox of Labour Transnationalism: Trade Union Campaigns for Labour Standards in International Institutions, in Craig Phelan (ed.), The
Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives (Berne: Peter Lang, 2007), p.63.
238.Data from the Union of International Associations Yearbook of International Organizations
and from the Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations indicate a drop from
approximately 250 million at the start of the decade to approximately half that figure at
the end of the decade, in contrast to growth in the 1980s.
239.John Clark, ConclusionsGlobalizing Civic Engagement, in John Clark (ed.), Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action (London: Earthscan, 2003),
p.168.
240.Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said, The New Anti-Capitalist Movement: Money and Global
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241.Marlies Glasius and Jill Timms, The Role of Social Forums in Global Civil Society, in
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242.David Chandler, Building Global Civil Society From Below?, Millennium: Journal of
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243.Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest, Social Movements in the World-System: The Politics of Crisis
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245.Reference to all of these issues and more are provided at Oxfam International, Issues We
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246.Daniel Chong, Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving towards Subsistence, in
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248.Anheier, Kaldor and Glasius, The Global Civil Society Yearbook, p.18.
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253.Ibid., p. 252.
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256.Caroline Harper, Do the Facts Matter? NGOs, Research, and International Advocacy,
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CONCLUSION
1.Shamima Ahmed and David M. Potter, NGOs in International Politics (Bloomfield, CT:
Kumarian Press, 2006), p.ix.
2.See the discussion in Chapter 2 for further details.
3.Geir Lundestad, Why does Globalization Encourage Fragmentation?, International Politics,
41/2 (2004), pp.26576.
4.The evidence and references for the material in this paragraph are provided in Chapter 1.
For each of the next two paragraphs, see Chapters 2 and 3 respectively.
5.For more detailed treatment of the themes discussed here in relation to each of the three
waves in turn, see Chapters 1, 2 and 3. On the general framework of explanatory factors, see
the Introduction.
6.On the transnational history research agenda more generally, see Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves
Saunier (eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
7.Thomas Richard Davies, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007) explored one example of
a significant unsuccessful transnational civil society campaign. The present volume has
highlighted many other possibilities for exploration.

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For bibliographic details of the items cited in this book, please see the footnotes to the individual chapters. Rather than following the chronological approach of the book, this guide to
further reading is divided into different aspects of the history of transnational civil society and
international non-governmental organizations. It provides a selection of secondary texts and a
few especially significant primary sources, each of which is illustrative of the wider material. It
covers a sample of aspects of transnational civil society activities, but it has not been possible
to include here every aspect covered in the text, nor has it been possible to include every possible source of relevant further reading. The listings should nevertheless be helpful to those seeking to make a start on investigating further the issues covered in this volume.
Abolitionism
Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 17761848 (London: Verso, 1988).
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention
(London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1841).
David, Huw T., Transnational Advocacy in the Eighteenth Century: Transatlantic Activism
and the Anti-Slavery Movement, Global Networks, 7/3 (2007), pp.36782.
Drescher, Seymour, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Cambridge: Cambridge
Fladeland, Betty, Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Anti-Slavery Cooperation (Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, 1972).
Kaye, Mike, 18072007: Over 200 Years of Campaigning Against Slavery (London: Anti-Slavery
International, 2005).
Midgley, Clare, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 17801870 (London: Routledge,
1992).
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Constitution of the Pennsylvania
Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (Philadelphia, PA: Joseph James, 1787).
Temperley, Howard, British Anti-Slavery, 18331870 (Columbia, SC: University of South
Carolina Press, 1972).
Business
Cutler, A. Claire, Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global
Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
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Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Sigrid Quack (eds.), Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Graz, Jean-Christophe, and Andreas Nlke (eds.), Transnational Private Governance and its
Limits (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008).
Hall, Douglas, A Brief History of the West India Committee (St Lawrence, Barbados: Caribbean
Universities Press, 1971).
Hall, Rodney Bruce, and Thomas J. Biersteker (eds.), The Emergence of Private Authority in Global
Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
International Committee of the International Congress of Delegated Representatives of Master Cotton-Spinners and Manufacturers Associations, Official Report of the Proceedings of the
First International Congress of Delegated Representatives of Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Associations held at the Tonhalle, Zrich, May 23 to 27, 1904 (London: Marsden,
1904).
Internationaler Hotelbesitzer-Verein, 60 Jahre Internationaler Hotelbesitzer-Verein, 18691929
(Kln: Dumont, 1929).
Lhr, Isabella, Die Globalisierung Geistiger Eigentumsrechte (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).
Pigman, Geoffrey Allen, The World Economic Forum: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007).
Ridgeway, George L., Merchants of Peace: Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy through the International Chamber of Commerce (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938).
Ronit, Karsten, and Volker Schneider (eds.), Private Organizations in Global Politics (London:
Routledge, 2000).
Rosenberg, Emily S., Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 18901945 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982).
Streeck, Wolfgang, Jrgen R. Grote, Volker Schneider, and Jelle Visser (eds.), Governing Interests: Business Associations Facing Internationalization (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006).
Cartels
Bardot, Dominique (ed.), International Cartels Revisited, 18801980 (Caen: Lys, 1994).
Hexner, Ervin, International Cartels (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
1945).
Kudo, Akira, and Terushi Hara (eds.), International Cartels in Business History (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992).
League of Nations, International Cartels: A League of Nations Memorandum (Lake Success, NY:
United Nations Department of Economic Affairs, 1947).
Sloan, Edward W., The First (and Very Secret) International Steamship Cartel, 18501856,
in David J. Starkey and Gelina Harlaftis (eds.), Global Markets: The Internationalization of
the Sea Transport Industries since 1850 (St Johns, Newfoundland: International Maritime
Economic History Association, 1998), pp.2952.
Wurm, Clemens A., International Cartels and Foreign Policy (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1989).
Christianity
Allen, W.O.B., and Edmund McClure, Two Hundred Years: The History of the Society for
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Promoting Christian Knowledge, 16981898 (London: Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, 1898).
Briggs, John, Mercy Amber Oduyoye and Georges Tsetsis (eds.), A History of the Ecumenical
Movement: Volume 3, 19682000 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2004).
Fey, Harold Edward, A History of the Ecumenical Movement: Volume 2, 19481968 (Geneva:
World Council of Churches, 1987).
Ingle, H. Larry, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (New York:
Jenkins, John Philip, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church
in the Middle East, Africa, and AsiaAnd How It Died (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
Robert, Dana L., Christian Mission: How Christianity became a World Religion (Chichester:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Rouse, Ruth, and Stephen Charles Neill (eds.), A History of the Ecumenical Movement: Volume
1, 15171948 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2004).
Shedd, Clarence Prouty, History of the Worlds Alliance of Young Mens Christian Associations
(London: SPCK, 1955).
Veer, Peter van der (ed.), Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity (New York:
Routledge, 1996).
Vissert Hooft, W. A., The Genesis and Formation of the World Council of Churches (Geneva: World
Council of Churches, 1982).
Wuthnow, Robert, Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2009).
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(London: Young Mens Christian Association, 1856).
Civil Society
Anheier, Helmut K., Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan, 2004).
Anheier, Helmut, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001 (Oxford:
Kaldor, Mary, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow (eds.), Global Civil Society 2012: Ten
Years of Critical Reflection (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).
Batliwala, Srilatha, and L. David Brown (eds.), Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction
(Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006).
CIVICUS, Citizens: Strengthening Global Civil Society (Washington, DC: CIVICUS, 1994).
Clark, Peter, British Clubs and Societies, 15801800: The Origins of an Associational World (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2000).
Colas, Alejandro, International Civil Society: Social Movements in World Politics (Cambridge:
Polity Press, 2002).
Edwards, Michael, and John Gaventa (eds.), Global Citizen Action (London: Earthscan, 2001).
Eberly, Don, The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom
Up (New York, NY: Encounter Books, 2008).
Florini, Ann M. (ed.), The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Tokyo: Japan
Center for International Exchange, 2000).
Hall, John A. (ed.), Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005).

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Heinrich, V. Finn (ed.), CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society (Bloomfield, CT:
Kumarian Press, 2007).
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, Civil Society, 17501914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Kaldor, Mary, Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003).
Keane, John, Global Civil Society? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
Laxer, Gordon, and Sandra Halperin (eds.), Global Civil Society and its Limits (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Lipschutz, Ronnie, Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 21/3 (1992), pp.389420.
Norton, Augustus Richard, Civil Society in the Middle East, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 19956).
Piper, Nicola, and Anders Uhlin (eds.), Transnational Activism in Asia: Problems of Power and
Democracy (London: Routledge, 2003).
Salamon, Lester M., Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List, Stefan Toepler, S. Wojciech Sokolowski
and Associates (eds.), Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector (Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999).
Communications
Bekiashev, Kamil A., and Vitali V. Serebriakov, International Marine Organizations (The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1981).
Burri, Monika, Kilian T. Elsasser and David Gugerli (eds.), Die Internationalitt der Eisenbahn
18501970 (Zrich: Chronos, 2003).
Bygrave, Lee A., and Jon Bing (eds.), Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions (Oxford:
Dean, Jodi, Jon W. Anderson and Geert Lovink (eds.), Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006).
International Broadcasting Union, The Problems of Broadcasting (Geneva: International Broadcasting Union, 1930).
International Road Federation, The International Road Federation: Fifty Years of Service, 1948
1997 (Washington, DC: International Road Federation, 1997).
Leslie, John C., International Air Transport Association: Some Historical Notes, Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 13, 3/4, (1971), pp.31941.
Rayward, W. Boyd, The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography/International Federation for Information and Documentation, in Trudi Bellardo
Hahn and Michael Buckland (eds.), Historical Studies in Information Science (Medford, NJ:
Information Today, 1998), pp.2233.
Tai, Zixue, The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society (New York: Routledge, 2006).
Communism
Alexander, Robert Jackson, International Trotskyism, 19291985: A Documented Analysis of the
Movement (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991).
Brouw, Pierre, Histoire de lInternationale Communiste, 19191943 (Paris: Fayard, 1997).
Carr, E. H., The Twilight of Comintern, 19301935 (London: Macmillan, 1982).
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(London: I. B. Tauris, 1987).
Degras, Jane (ed.), The Communist International, 19191943: Documents, Volumes I-III (London: Frank Cass, 1971).
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition (London: Verso,
1998).
McDermott, Kevin, and Jeremy Agnew, The Comintern: A History of International Communism
from Lenin to Stalin (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).
McMeekin, Sean, The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Mnzenberg, Moscows Secret
Propaganda Tsar in the West (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003).
Morris, Bernard S., Communist International Front Organizations: Their Nature and Function, World Politics, 9/1 (1956), pp.7687.
Nation, R. Craig, War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989).
Orth, Robert, International Communist Front Organizations (Pfaffenhofen: Ilmgau, 1963).
Wolton, Thierry, Le Grand Recrutement (Paris: Grasset, 1993).
World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and
the Burning of the Reichstag (London: Victor Gollancz, 1933).
See also the entries on Socialism.
Consumers
Hilton, Matthew, Choice and Justice: Forty Years of the Malaysian Consumers Movement (Penang:
Universiti Sains Malaysia Press, 2009).
Hilton, Matthew, Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2009).
Mowjee, Tasneem, Consumers Unite Internationally, in John Clark (ed.), Globalizing Civic
Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action (London: Earthscan, 2003), pp.2944.
Sim, Foo Gaik, IOCU on Record: A Documentary History of the International Organization of Consumers Unions, 19601990 (Yonkers, NY: Consumers Union, 1990).
Cooperatives
Birchall, Johnston, The International Co-operative Movement (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Harrison, J. F. C., Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New
Moral World (London: Routledge, 1969).
International Co-operative Alliance, Report of the First International Co-operative Congress
(London: P. S. King and Son, 1895).
Murray, Robin, Global Civil Society and the Rise of the Civil Economy, in Mary Kaldor, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow (eds.), Global Civil Society 2012: Ten Years of Critical
Reflection (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), pp.14464.
Watkins, William Pascoe, The International Co-operative Alliance, 18951970 (London: International Co-operative Alliance, 1970).
Williams, Richard C., The Co-operative Movement: Globalization from Below (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2007).

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Decolonization
Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference: Cairo, December 26, 1957January 1, 1958 (Moscow:
Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1958).
Duara, Prasenjit (ed.), Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then (London: Routledge,
2004).
Kimche, David, The Afro-Asian Movement: Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World ( Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1973).
Patil, Vrushali, Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations (New York: Routledge, 2008).
Thomas, Darryl C., The Theory and Practice of Third World Solidarity (New York: Greenwood
Press, 2001).
Development
Chabbott, Colette, Development INGOs, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press), pp.22248.
Davies, Thomas Richard, La Transformation des ONG Internationales et ses Effets sur LAide
au Dveloppement, Revue Internationale de Politique de Dveloppement, 3 (2012), pp.6375.
Lewis, David, and Nazneen Kanji, Non-Governmental Organizations and Development (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
Lindenberg, Marc, and Coralie Bryant, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development
NGOs (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001).
Rugendyke, Barbara (ed.), NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalizing World (London:
Routledge, 2007).
Third World Network, Third World: Development or Crisis? Declaration and Conclusions of the
Third World Conference, Penang, 914 Nov. 1984 (Penang: Third World Network, 1984).
See also the entries on Humanitarianism.
Education
Alter, Peter, The Royal Society and the International Association of Academies 18971919,
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 34/2 (1980), pp.24164.
Hayden, Mary, and Jeff Thompson (eds.), International Education: Principles and Practice (London: Kogan Page, 1998).
Iriye, Akira, Cultural Internationalism and World Order (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
Scanlon, David G. (ed.), International Education: A Documentary History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960).
Sylvester, Robert, Historical Resources for Research in International Education, in Mary
Hayden, Jack Levy and Jeff Thompson (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education (London: SAGE, 2007), pp.1124.
Environment
Bohlen, Jim, Making Waves: The Origins and Future of Greenpeace (Montral and London: Black
Rose, 2001).
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Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Fitzwilliams, James M., St Barbe Baker: Far-Sighted Pioneer, Environmental Conservation,
14/2 (1987), pp.1648.
Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, John W. Meyer, Evan Schofer and Nancy Brandon Tuma,
The Rationalization and Organization of Nature in World Culture, in John Boli and George
M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations
since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp.8199.
Grove, Richard H., Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 16001850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Holdgate, Martin, The Green Web: A Union for World Conservation (London: Earthscan, 1999).
Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, 1 (1904).
McCormick, John, Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 1991).
Newell, Peter, Campaigning for Corporate Change: Global Citizen Action on the Environment, in Michael Edwards and John Gaventa (eds.), Global Citizen Action (London: Earthscan, 2001), pp.189201.
Princen, Thomas, and Matthias Finger (eds.), Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking
the Local and the Global (London: Routledge, 1994).
Scarce, Rick, Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement (Walnut Creek,
CA: Left Coast Press, 2005).
Tyrrell, Ian, True Gardens of the Gods: CalifornianAustralian Environmental Reform, 18601930
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1999).
Wapner, Paul, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Albany, NY: State University
of New York Press, 1996).
Extremism
Caillat, Michel, Mauro Cerutti, Jean-Franois Fayet and Jorge Gajardo, Une Source Indite
de lHistoire de lAnticommunisme: Les Archives de lEntente Internationale Anticommuniste (EIA) de Thodore Aubert (19241950), Matriaux pour lHistoire de Notre Temps, 73
(2004), pp.2531.
Greven, Thomas, and Thomas Grumke (eds.), Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die Extremistische Rechte in der ra der Globalisierung (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2006).
Leeden, Michael Arthur, Universal Fascism: The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International,
19281936 (New York: Howard Fertig, 1972).
Morgan, Philip, Fascism in Europe, 19191945 (London: Routledge, 2003).
Vejvodov, Petra, Transnational Cooperation of the Far Right in the European Union and
Attempts to Institutionalize Mutual Relations, in Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau (eds.),
The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2012), pp.21528.
Feminism
All Asian Womens Conference, All Asian Womens Conference. First Session. Lahore, 19th to 25th
January 1931 (Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1931).
Anderson, Bonnie S., Joyous Greetings: The First International Womens Movement, 18301860
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

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Berkovitch, Nitza, From Motherhood to Citizenship: Womens Rights and International Organization (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Bunch, Charlotte, and Niamh Reilly, Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna
Tribunal for Womens Human Rights (Rutgers, NJ: Center for Womens Global Leadership,
1994).
Butler, Josephine E., The New Abolitionists (London: Dyer Brothers, 1876).
Daley, Caroline, and Melanie Nolan (eds.), Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 1994).
Evans, Richard J., The Feminists: Womens Emancipation Movements in Europe, America, and Australasia, 18401920 (London: Croom Helm, 1977).
Feree, Myra Marx, and Aili Mari Tripp (eds.), Transnational Womens Activism, Organizing, and
Human Rights (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
Goegg, Marie, Proposition de crer une Association Internationale des Femmes, en connexion avec la Ligue de la Paix et de la Libert, Les tats-Unis dEurope (1868), p.38.
International Council of Women, Women in a Changing World: The Dynamic Story of the International Council of Women since 1888 (London: Routledge, 1966).
Kates, Gary, The Powers of Husband and Wife must be Equal and Separate: The Cercle
Social and the Rights of Women, 179091, in Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline G. Levy
(eds.), Women and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolution (Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 1990), pp.1723.
Limoncelli, Stephanie A., The Politics of Trafficking: The First International Movement to Combat
the Sexual Exploitation of Women (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).
Miller, Carol, Genevathe Key to Equality: Inter-war Feminists and the League of Nations,
Womens History Review, 3/2 (1994), pp.21945.
Miller, Francesca, Latin American Feminists and the Transnational Arena, in Emilie L. Bergmann (ed.), Women, Culture and Politics in Latin America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA:
University of California Press, 1990), pp.1026.
Moghadam, Valentine M., Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
National American Woman Suffrage Association, Report. First International Woman Suffrage
Conference held at Washington, USA, February 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1902, in connection
with and by invitation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (New York: International Woman Suffrage Headquarters, 1902).
National Woman Suffrage Association, Report of the International Council of Women assembled
by the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, DC, United States of America, March
25 to April 1, 1888 (Washington, DC: Rufus H. Darby, 1888).
Open Door International for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker, Report of
the Conference held in Berlin, June 15th and 16th, 1929 (London: Open Door International
for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker, 1929).
Reilly, Niamh, Womens Human Rights (Cambridge: Polity, 2009).
Rupp, Leila J., Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Womens Movement (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Stienstra, Deborah, Womens Movements and International Organizations (London: Macmillan,
1994).
Tyrrell, Ian, Womans World/Womans Empire: The Womans Christian Temperance Union in
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International Perspective, 18801930 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
1991).
Wellman, Judith, The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Womans Rights
Convention (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
Whittick, Arnold, Woman into Citizen (London: Athenaeum with Frederick Miller, 1979).
Foundations
Arnove, Robert F., Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: Foundations at Home and Abroad
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982).
Berman, Edward H., The Ideology of Philanthropy: The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy (Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 1986).
Curti, Merle, American Philanthropy Abroad (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1963).
Parmar, Inderjeet, Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).
Rosenberg, Emily, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion,
18901945 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1982).
Global governance
Charnovitz, Steve, Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance,
Michigan Journal of International Law, 183 (19967), pp.183286.
Clark, Ian, International Legitimacy and World Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
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York: Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 1942).
Davies, Thomas Richard, A Great Experiment of the League of Nations Era: International
Nongovernmental Organizations, Global Governance, and Democracy Beyond the State,
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 18/4 (2012),
pp.40523.
Fdration des Institutions Internationales Prives et Semi-Officielles avec Sige Genve, La
Fdration des Institutions Internationales Prives et Semi-Officielles avec Sige Genve: Ses
Buts et Son Activit (Geneva: Fdration des Institutions Internationales Prives et SemiOfficielles avec Sige Genve, 1937).
Ikenberry, G. John, A World Economy Restored: Expert Consensus and the Anglo-American
Postwar Settlement, International Organization, 46/1 (1992), pp.289321.
Lie, Trygve, The Right of Petition (Report by the Secretary General), United Nations Document
E/CN.4/419, 11 April 1950.
Murphy, Craig N., International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since
1850 (Cambridge: Polity, 1994).
Pickard, Bertram, The Greater League of Nations (Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1936).
Robins, Dorothy B., Experiment in Democracy: The Story of US Citizen Organizations in Forging
the Charter of the United Nations (New York: The Parkside Press, 1971).
Ronit, Karsten, and Volker Schneider (eds.), Private Organizations in Global Politics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2000).

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Schlesinger, Stephen C., Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations (Cambridge, MA:
Westview Press, 2003).
Shotwell, James T. (ed.), The Origins of the International Labor Organization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934).
Willetts, Peter (ed.), The Conscience of the World: The Influence of Non-Governmental Organisations in the U.N. System (London: Hurst & Co., 1996).
Zimmern, Alfred, The Prospects of Democracy and Other Essays (London: Chatto and Windus,
1929).
Global justice
Cassen, Bernard, Tout a Commenc Porto Alegre: Mille Forums Sociaux (Paris: Mille et Une
Nuits, 2003).
Cassen, Bernard, et al., ATTAC: Contre la Dictature des Marchs (Paris: Syllepse, 1999).
Della Porta, Donatella (ed.), The Global Justice Movement: Cross-National and Transnational Perspectives (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007).
Kurtz, Jrgen, NGOs, the Internet and International Economic Policy Making: The Failure of
the OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Melbourne Journal of International Law,
3/2 (2002), pp.21346.
Olesen, Thomas, International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization (London: Zed, 2005).
Pea, Alejandro, and Thomas Richard Davies, Globalisation from Above? Corporate Social
Responsibility, the Workers Party and the Origins of the World Social Forum, New Political Economy, 2013: DOI 10.1080/13563467.2013.779651.
Sen, Jai, and Peter Waterman (eds.), World Social Forum: Challenging Empires (Montral: Black
Rose, 2007).
Smith, Jackie, Social Movements for Global Democracy (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Worth, Owen, and Karen Buckley, The World Social Forum: Postmodern Prince or Court
Jester?, Third World Quarterly, 30/4 (2009), pp.64961.
Health
Barrett, Deborah, and David John Frank, Population Control for National Development: From
World Discourse to National Policies, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp.198221.
Bazin, Herv, Vaccination: A History, From Lady Montagu to Genetic Engineering (Montrouge:
John Libby Eurotext, 2011).
Brush, Barbara L., Nurses of All Nations: A History of the International Council of Nurses, 1899
1999 (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 1999).
Chetley, Andrew, The Politics of Baby Foods: Successful Challenges to an International Marketing
Strategy (London: Frances Pinter, 1986).
Duke-Elder, Sir Stewart, A Century of International Ophthalmology, 18571957 (London: Kimpton, 1958).
Ennis, John, The Story of the Fdration Dentaire Internationale (London: Fdration Dentaire
Internationale, 1967).
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Harman, Sophie, Global Health Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012).
Royal Jennerian Society, The Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-Pox
(London: James Swan, 1817).
Suitters, Beryl, Be Brave and Angry: Chronicles of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London: International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1973).
Weindling, Paul, International Health Organisations and Movements, 19181939 (Cambridge:
See also the entries on Humanitarianism.
Hinduism
Katju, Manjari, Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2003).
McKean, Lise, Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Pangborn, Cyrus R., The Ramakrishna Math and Mission: A Case Study of a Revitalization
Movement, in Bardwell L. Smith (ed.), Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions
(Leiden: Brill, 1976), pp.98119.
Williams, Raymond Brady, An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Homosexuality
Adam, Barry D., Jan Willem Duyvendak and Andr Krouwel (eds.), The Global Emergence of
Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999).
Massad, Joseph, Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World, Public Culture, 14/2 (2002), pp.36185.
Rupp, Leila J., The Persistence of Transnational Organizing: The Case of the Homophile Movement, American Historical Review, 116/4 (2011), pp.101439.
Human rights
Baehr, Peter R., Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations in International Relations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Benenson, Peter, The Forgotten Prisoners, The Observer Weekend Review, 28 May 1961.
Bob, Clifford (ed.), The International Struggle for New Human Rights (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
Buchanan, Tom, The Truth Will Set You Free: The Making of Amnesty International, Journal of Contemporary History, 37/4 (2002), pp.57597.
Burgers, Jan Herman, The Road to San Francisco: The Revival of the Human Rights Idea in
the Twentieth Century, Human Rights Quarterly, 14/4 (1992), pp.44777.
Clark, Ann Marie, Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights
Norms (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Glasius, Marlies, The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006).
Heartfield, James, The Aborigines Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New
Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 18371909 (London: Hurst & Co., 2011).

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Ishay, Micheline R., The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008).
Klinghoffer, Arthur Jay, and Judith Apter Klinghoffer, International Citizens Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Korey, William, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine (New
York: Palgrave, 2001).
Lewis, Norman, From Fire and Sword to Arsenic and BulletsCivilisation has sent Six Million Indians to Extinction, Sunday Times Magazine, 23 February 1969, reproduced at http://
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Moyn, Samuel, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press,
2010).
Neier, Aryeh, The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
Nelson, Paul J., and Ellen Dorsey, New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and
Human Rights NGOs (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008).
Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Se, Henri, Histoire de la Ligue des Droits de lHomme (18981926) (Paris: Ligue des Droits de
lHomme, 1927).
Snyder, Sarah B., Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge
Thomas, Daniel C., The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of
Communism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Humanitarianism
Barnett, Michael N., Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Bass, Gary J., Freedoms Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2009).
Bazarov, Valery, HIAS and HICEM in the System of Jewish Relief Organisations in Europe,
193341, East European Jewish Affairs, 39/1 (2009), pp.6978.
Benthall, Jonathan, and Jrme Bellion-Jourdan, The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the
Muslim World (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003).
Black, Maggie, A Cause for Our Times: Oxfam, The First 50 Years (Oxford: Oxfam, 1992).
Coste, Pierre (ed.), Saint Vincent de Paul. Correspondence, Entretiens, Documents (Paris: Librairie Lecoffre, 1924).
Ducpetiaux, Edouard, Projet dAssociation pour le Progrs des Sciences et la Ralisation des Rformes
Morales et Sociales (Brussels, 1843).
Dunant, Henri, The Origin of the Red Cross (Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston, 1911).
Evans, Clayton, Rescue at Sea: An International History of Lifesaving, Coastal Rescue Craft and
Organisations (London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003).
Forsythe, David P., The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Cambridge:
French Committee on Social Welfare, International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW): 80 Years
of History (Rennes: Presses de lcole des Hautes tudes en Sant Publique, 2008).
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Johnson, Alexander, An Account of Some Societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the Recovery of
Drowned Persons, and of Similar Institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna and Paris (London: John Nourse, 1773).
League of Red Cross Societies, Proceedings of the Medical Conference held at the invitation of the
Committee of Red Cross Societies, Cannes, France, April 1 to 11, 1919 (Geneva: League of Red
Cross Societies, 1919).
Liancourt, Augusta, Biographical Notes on Callistus Augustus Count de Godde-Liancourt, founder
of over one hundred and fifty humane societies in Africa, America, Asia and Europe (London:
Whittacker & Co., 1877).
Maren, Michael, The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
(New York: Free Press, 1997).
Mdecins Sans Frontires, Lettre aux 60.000 Mdecins, Bulletin Intrieur de MSF, 1 (1974),
pp.46.
Moniz, Amanda Bowie, Cosmopolitanism in the Early American Republic, GHI Bulletin Supplement, 5 (2008), pp.922.
Moorehead, Caroline, Dunants Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross (New
York: Carroll and Graf, 1999).
Mulley, Clare, The Woman who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009).
Murdoch, Norman H., The Origins of the Salvation Army (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1994).
Roberts, Henry, Report of the Proceedings of the Congrs Internationale de Bienfaisance, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 21/3 (1858), pp.33944.
Ryfman, Philippe, La Question Humanitaire: Histoire, Problmatiques, Acteurs en Enjeux de lAide
Humanitaire Internationale (Paris: Ellipses, 1999).
Smith, Brian H., More than Altruism: The Politics of Private Foreign Aid (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990).
Society of Universal Good-Will, An Account of the Scots Society in Norwich, from its Rise in 1775
until it received the additional Name of the Society of Universal Good-Will in 1784 (Norwich:
W. Chase, 1784).
Storr, Katherine, Excluded from the Record: Women, Refugees and Relief, 19141929 (Berne: Peter
Lang, 2010).
Tong, Jacqueline, ICVA at Forty-Something: The Life and Times of a Middle-Aged NGO Consortium (Geneva: International Council of Voluntary Agencies, 2009).
Vallaeys, Anne, Mdecins Sans Frontires: La Biographie (Paris: Fayard, 2004).
Walker, Peter, and Daniel Maxwell, Shaping the Humanitarian World (Abingdon: Routledge,
2009).
See also the entries on Development and Health.
Imperialism
Ascherson, Neal, The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo (London: Granta,
1999).
Hallett, Robin (ed.), Records of the African Association, 17881831 (London: Thomas Nelson,
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Harland-Jacobs, Jessica L., Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 17171927
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Hochschild, Adam, King Leopolds Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
(London: Pan Macmillan, 1999).
Morel, Edmund D., King Leopolds Rule in Africa (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company,
1905).
International relations
Dockrill, M. L., The Foreign Office and the Proposed Institute of International Affairs 1919,
International Affairs, 56/4 (1980), pp.66572.
Long, David, and Brian C. Schmidt (eds.), Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of
International Relations (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005).
Parmar, Inderjeet, Anglo-American Elites in the Interwar Years: Idealism and Power in the
Intellectual Roots of Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations, International
Relations, 16/1 (2002), pp.5375.
Parmar, Inderjeet, Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and
Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
19391945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Shoup, Laurence H., and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977). See also the
entries on Global governance.
Islam
Ahmad, Irfan, Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
Ansari, Humayun, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (London: Hurst & Co.,
2004).
Ayoob, Mohammed, The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
Benthall, Jonathan, and Jrme Bellion-Jourdan, The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the
Muslim World (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003).
Burdett, Anita L. P. (ed.), Islamic Movements in the Arab World, 19131966 (Slough: Archive
Editions, 1998).
Cooke, Miriam, and Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.), Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop (Chapel
Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Karpat, Kemal H., The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith and Community in the Late Ottoman State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Kidwai, Shaikh Mushir Hosain, Pan-Islamism (London: Lusac, 1908).
Kramer, Martin, Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses (New York: Columbia
Lia, Brynjar, The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement,
19281942 (Reading: Garnet, 1998).
Loimeier, Roman, Die Islamischer Welt als Netzwerk (Wrzburg: Ergon, 2000).
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Minault, Gail, The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1982).
Mitchell, Richard Paul, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1993).
zcan, Azmi, Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain, 18771924 (Leiden:
Brill, 1997).
Rubin, Barry, The Muslim Brotherhood: The Organization and Policies of a Global Islamist Movement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Trinningham, J. Spencer, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Voll, John Obert, Islam as a Special World-System, Journal of World History, 5/2 (1994),
pp.21326.
Judaism
Comit Excutif du Congrs Juif Mondial, Protocole du Premier Congrs Juif Mondial, Genve,
815 Aot 1936 (Geneva: Comit Excutif du Congrs Juif Mondial, 1936).
Executive of the Zionist Organization, The Jubilee of the First Zionist Congress, 18971947 ( Jerusalem: Executive of the Zionist Organization, 1947).
Garai, George (ed.), 40 Years in Action: A Record of the World Jewish Congress, 19361976 (Geneva:
World Jewish Congress, 1976).
Kedourie, Elie, The Alliance Isralite Universelle, 18601960, in Elie Kedourie, Arab Political
Memoirs and Other Studies (London: Frank Cass, 1974), pp.7380.
Laqueur, Walter, A History of Zionism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003).
Leven, Narcisse, Cinquante Ans dHistoire: LAlliance Isralite Universelle, 18601910, Tome Premier (Paris: Librairie Flix Alcan, 1911).
Labour
Berenstein, Alexandre, Les Organisations Ouvrires: Leurs Comptences et Leur Rle dans la Socit
des Nations (Paris: Pedone, 1936).
Dale, Leon A., International Trade Secretariats, Industrial Relations, 22/1 (1967), pp.98115.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Official Report of the Free World Labour Conference and of the First International Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions, London, NovemberDecember 1949 (London: International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions, 1949).
Lorwin, Lewis L., Labor and Internationalism (New York: Macmillan, 1929).
MacShane, Denis, International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1992).
Mason, Paul, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class went Global (London: Harvill
Secker, 2007).
Phelan, Craig (ed.), The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives (Berne: Peter Lang,
2007).
Schevenels, Walther, Quarante-Cinq Annes: Fdration Syndicale Internationale, 19011945
(Brussels: Institut E. Vandervelde, 1964).
Silver, Beverly J., Forces of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Cambridge:

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Van der Linden, Marcel, Transnational Labour History: Explorations (London: Ashgate, 2003).
Van der Linden, Marcel (ed.), The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Berne: Peter
Lang, 2000).
Van der Linden, Marcel, and Wayne Thorpe (eds.), Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International
Perspective (Aldershot: Scolar, 1990).
Van Goethem, Geert, The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of
Trade Unions (IFTU), 19131945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Language
Eco, Umberto, The Search for the Perfect Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
Forster, Peter Glover, The Esperanto Movement (The Hague: Mouton, 1982).
Kim, Young S., Constructing a Global Identity: The Role of Esperanto, in John Boli and George
M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations
since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp.12748.
Large, Andrew, The Artificial Language Movement (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987).
Sprague, Charles E., Hand-book of Volapk (New York: Charles E. Sprague, 1888).
Zamenhof, Lejzer Ludwik, The Making of an International Language, in J. C. OConnor,
Esperanto [The Universal Language]: The Students Complete Textbook (New York: Fleming
H. Revell), pp.720.
Law
Bos, Maarten (ed.), The Present State of International Law and Other Essays: Written in Honour
of the Centenary Celebration of the International Law Association 18731973 (Deventer: Kluwer, 1973).
Dezalay, Yves, Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of
International Legal Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Harper, J. Ross (ed.), Global Law in Practice (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997).
Institute of International Law, Livre du Centenaire, 18731973: volution et Perspectives du Droit
International (Basle: S. Karger, 1973).
Koskenniemi, Martti, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law,
18701960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Liberalism
Samuel, Viscount Herbert, et al., Spires of Liberty: Speeches made at the Oxford Conference in May
1947, as a result of which the Liberal International was inaugurated, and at the First Conference
of the Liberal International at Zurich in 1948 (London: Herbert Joseph, 1948).
Smith, Julie, A Sense of Liberty: The History of the Liberal International, 19471997 (London:
Liberal International, 1997).
National self-determination
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini. Vol.III. Autobiographical and Political
(London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891).
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Nabulsi, Karma, Patriotism and Internationalism in the Oath of Allegiance to Young Europe,
European Journal of Political Theory, 5/1 (2006), pp.6170.
Plissier, Jean, and *** (i.e. Jean Gabrys), Les Principaux Artisans de la Renaissance Nationale Lituanienne: Hommes et Choses de Lituanie (Lausanne: Bureau dInformations de Lituanie, 1918).
Penn, Virginia, Philhellenism in Europe, 18211828, The Slavonic and East European Review,
16/48 (1938), pp.63853.
Sarti, Roland, Mazzini: A Life for the Religion of Politics (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).
Senn, Alfred Erich, Garlawa: A Study in Emigr Intrigue, 19151917 (1967), pp.41124.
Soutou, Georges-Henri, Jean Plissier et lOffice Central des Nationalits, 19111918: Renseignement et Influence, Rlations Internationales, 78 (1994), pp.15374.
Union des Nationalits, Les Annales des Nationalits, 19121918
Watson, D. R., Jean Plissier and the Office Central des Nationalits, 19121919, English Historical Review, 110 (1995), pp.11911206.
Non-governmental organizations
Ahmed, Shamima, and David M. Potter, NGOs in International Politics (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006).
Boli, John, and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).
Chatfield, Charles, Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Associations to 1945, in Jackie
Smith, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements and
Global Politics: Solidarity beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997),
pp.1941.
Davies, Thomas Richard, The Rise and Fall of Transnational Civil Society: The Evolution of
International Non-Governmental Organizations since the Mid Nineteenth Century, in
Luc Reydams (ed.), The Global Activism Reader (New York: Continuum, 2011), pp.3544.
Fried, Alfred, Annuaire de la Vie Internationale 19051907 (Monaco: Institut International de
la Paix, 19051907).
International Association, Journal of the International Association (Glasgow: Rutherglen, 1834).
League of Nations, Handbook of International Organizations (Geneva: League of Nations, 1921
1938). Online version available at: http://www.lonsea.de/
Maynard, Douglas, Reform and the Origins of the International Organization Movement,
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 107/3 (1963), pp.22031.
Office Central des Associations Internationales, Congrs Mondial des Associations Internationales, Bruxelles, 911 Mai 1910 (Brussels: Office Central des Associations Internationales,
1911).
Ruyssen, Thodore, Is Unofficial International Collaboration Passing through a Crisis?, International Consultative Group (for Peace and Disarmament) Surveys and Reports, 16, 10 May
1939.
Sikkink, Kathryn, and Jackie Smith, Infrastructures for Change: Transnational Organizations,
195393, in Sanjeev Khagram, James V. Riker and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), Restructuring
World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp.2444.
Skjelsbaek, Kjell, The Growth of International Nongovernmental Organization in the Twentieth Century, International Organization, 25/3 (1971), pp.42042.

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Speeckaert, Georges Patrick, Les 1978 Organisations Internationales Fondes depuis le Congrs de
Vienne (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1957).
Suri, Jeremi, Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Actors, in Patrick Finney (ed.),
Palgrave Advances in International History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005),
pp.22346.
Union of International Associations, Annuaires de la Vie Internationale, 19081911 (Brussels:
Office Central des Associations Internationales, 190911).
Union of International Associations, Congrs Mondial des Associations Internationales, Bruxelles,
1518 Juin 1913 (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1914).
Union of International Associations, Yearbook of International Organizations Online, http://
www.uia.be/yearbook, last accessed 11 December 2011.
Union of International Associations, Union of International Associations: A World Center (Brussels: Union of International Associations, 1914).
White, Lyman Cromwell, International Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes, Methods and Accomplishments (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968).
White, Lyman Cromwell, The Structure of Private International Organizations (Philadephia, PA:
George S. Ferguson Company, 1933).
Willetts, Peter, Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics: The Construction of Global
Governance (London: Routledge, 2011).
Willetts, Peter, Pressure Groups in the Global System (London: Frances Pinter, 1982).
Woolf, Leonard, International Government (New York: Brentanos, 1916).
Pan-nationalism
Azoury, Negib, Le Rveil de la Nation Arabe dans lAsie Turque (Paris: Plon, 1905).
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Richard Nikolaus, An Idea Conquers the World (London: Hutchinson, 1953).
Dawisha, Adeed, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
Esedebe, Peter Olisanwuche, Pan-Africanism: The Idea and Movement, 17761991 (Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1994).
Geiss, Imanuel, The Pan-African Movement: A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and
Africa (London: Methuen, 1974).
Kedourie, Sylvia (ed.), Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1962).
Khalidi, Rashid, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih and Reeva S. Simon (eds.), The Origins of
Arab Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
Mansergh, Nicholas, The Asian Conference, International Affairs, 23/3 (1947), pp.295306.
Porath, Yehoshua, In Search of Arab Unity, 19301945 (London: Frank Cass, 1986).
Saaler, Sven, and J. Victor Koschmann (eds.), Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007).
Snyder, Louis L., Macro-Nationalisms: A History of the Pan-Movements (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984).
Torrey, Gordon H., The BathIdeology and Practice, Middle East Journal, 23/4 (1969),
pp.44570.
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Peace
Angell, Norman, Europes Optical Illusion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
n.d.).
Beales, A. C. F., The History of Peace: A Short Account of the Organised Movements for International Peace (London: G. Bell, 1931).
Brock, Peter, Pacifism in Europe to 1914 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972).
Brock, Peter, and Nigel Young, Pacifism in the Twentieth Century (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999).
Carter, April, Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics since 1945 (Harlow: Longman, 1992).
Ceadel, Martin, The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International
Relations, 17301854 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Ceadel, Martin, Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations,
18541945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Ceadel, Martin, Living the Great Illusion: Sir Norman Angell, 18721967 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Cooper, Sandi. Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 18151914 (New York: Oxford
Cortright, David, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008).
Davies, Thomas Richard, Internationalism in a Divided World: The Experience of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies, 19191939, Peace & Change, 37/2 (2012),
pp.22752.
Davies, Thomas Richard, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World Wars (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007).
Dewes, Kate, and Robert Green, The World Court Project: History and Consequences, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 7/1 (1999), pp.6183.
Divine, Robert A., Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America during World War
II (New York: Athenaeum, 1967).
Evangelista, Matthew, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Foster, Catherine, Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989).
Hubert, Don, The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy (Providence, RI:
Thomas J. Watson Jr Institute for International Studies, 2000).
Ktzel, Ute, A Radical Womens Rights and Peace Activist: Margarethe Lenore Selenka, Initiator
of the First Worldwide Womens Peace Demonstration in 1899, Journal of Womens History,
13/3 (2001), pp.4669.
Liddington, Jill, The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since
1820 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989).
Lynch, Cecelia, Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Mauermann, Helmut, Das Internationale Friedensbro, 1892 bis 1950 (Stuttgart: Silberburg,
1990).

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Peace Society, The Proceedings of the First General Peace Convention (London: Peace Society,
1843).
Tate, Merze, The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907
(New York: Macmillan, 1942).
Uhlig, Ralph, Die Interparliamentarische Union, 18891914 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
1988).
Van der Linden, W. H., The International Peace Movement, 18151874 (Amsterdam: Tilleul,
1987).
White, Lyman Cromwell, Peace by Pieces: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations,
Annals of the American Academy of Political Science, 264 (1949), pp.8797.
Wittner, Lawrence S., The Struggle against the Bomb, 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 19932003).
Professions
Evetts, Julia, International Professional Associations: The New Context for Professional Projects, Work, Employment & Society, 9/4 (1995), pp.76372.
International Actuarial Association, Decennial Report: A Profession Poised for the Future (Ottawa:
International Actuarial Association, 2008).
International Actuarial Association, Premier Congrs International dActuaires, Bruxelles, 26
Septembre 1895. Documents. Deuxime Edition. (Brussels: Imprimerie Bruylant-Christophe
& Compagnie, 1900).
International Federation of Accountants, IFAC: Thirty Years of Progress, Encouraging Quality and
Building Trust (New York: International Federation of Accountants, 2007).
Koops, Willem, and Joachim Wieder (eds.), IFLAs First Fifty Years: Achievement and Challenge
in International Librarianship (Mnchen: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977).
Vago, Pierre, LUIA, 19481998 (Paris: Epure, 1998).
Race
Cronon, Edmund David, Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (Madison, WN: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).
East India Association, Rules of the East India Association for Promoting Indian Interests,
Journal of the East India Association, 1/1 (1867), pp.810.
Eugenics Education Society, Problems in Eugenics II: Report of Proceedings of the First International Eugenics Congress (London: Eugenics Education Society, 1913).
Executive Council of the Universal Races Congress, Record of the Proceedings of the First Universal Races Congress (London: P. S. King, 1911).
Marger, Martin N., Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives, 9th edn (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2012).
Rich, Paul, The Baptism of a New Era: The 1911 Universal Races Congress and the Liberal
Ideology of Race, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 7/4 (1984), pp.53450.
Religion
Boli, John, and David V. Brewington, Religious Organizations, in Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman (eds.), Globalization, Religion and Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp.20533.
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Braybrooke, Marcus, A Wider Vision: A History of the World Congress of Faiths, 19361996 (Oxford:
Oneworld, 1996).
Currier, Charles Warren, History of Religious Orders (New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1894).
James, Helen (ed.), Civil Society, Religion, and Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007)
Masuzawa, Tomoko, The Invention of World Religions: How European Universalism was Preserved
in the Language of Pluralism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Millard, A. Douglas (ed.), Faiths and Fellowship: Being the Proceedings of the World Congress of
Faiths held in London, July 3rd-17th, 1936 (London: J. M. Watkins, 1936).
Seager, Richard Hughes (ed.), The Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the Worlds Parliament of Religions, 1893 (Peru, IL: Open Court, 1993).
Smith, Peter, An Introduction to the Bahai Faith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
See also the entries on Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
Revolution
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (New
York: Palgrave, 2000).
Billington, James H., Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999).
Geggus, David P. (ed.), The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Columbia,
SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001).
Halliday, Fred, Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power (D urham,
NC: Duke University Press, 1999).
Kates, Gary, The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Markoff, John, Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Pine Forge Press, 1996).
Palmer, R. R., The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America,
17751800 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959).
Randle, Michael, Civil Resistance (London: Fontana, 1994).
Universal Confederation of the Friends of Truth, La Bouche de Fer, 17901791.
Vincent, Bernard, The Transatlantic Republican: Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2005).
Science
Charle, Christophe, Jrgen Schriewer and Peter Wagner (eds.), Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities (Frankfurt: Campus, 2004).
Crawford, Elisabeth, Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 18801939: Four Studies of the
Nobel Population (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez and Evan Schofer (eds.), Science in the
Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003).
Erdmann, Karl Dietrich, Toward a Global Community of Historians: The International Historical

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Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 18982000 (New York:
Berghahn: 2005).
Fernos, Rodrigo, Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses,
18981916 (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2003).
Greenaway, Frank, Science International: A History of the International Council of Scientific Unions
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
International Statistical Institute, Statuts de lInstitut International de Statistique, in Bulletin
de lInstitut International de Statistique. Tome I (Rome: Imprimerie Hritiers Botta, 1886),
p.17.
Kejariwal, O. P., The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of Indias Past, 17841838 (Delhi:
Lehto, Olli, Mathematics without Borders: A History of the International Mathematical Union
(New York: Springer, 1998).
Nixon, James William, A History of the International Statistical Institute, 18851960 (The Hague:
International Statistical Institute, 1960).
Schofer, Evan, Science Associations in the International Sphere, 18751990: The Rationalization of Science and the Scientization of Society, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.),
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp.24966.
Visvanathan, Shiv, Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory (Delhi:
Service clubs
Kittler, Glenn D., The Dynamic World of Lions International: The Fifty-Year Saga of Lions Clubs
(New York: M. Evans, 1968).
Nicholl, David Shelley, The Golden Wheel: The Story of Rotary, 1905 to the Present (Estover, Plymouth: McDonald & Evans, 1984).
The Rotarian, September 1912.
Social movements
Della Porta, Donatella, and Sidney Tarrow (eds.), Transnational Protest and Global Activism:
People, Passions, and Power (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Della Porta, Donatella, Hanspeter Kriesi and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Movements in a Globalizing World (London: Macmillan, 1999).
Khagram, Sanjeev, James V. Riker and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), Restructuring World Politics:
Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
Markoff, John, Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Pine Forge Press, 1996).
Martin, William G. (coordinator), Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 17502005
(Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008).
McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
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Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (eds.), Transnational Social Movements and
Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
Smith, Jackie, and Dawn Wiest, Social Movements in the World System: The Politics of Crisis and
Transformation (New York: Russell Sage, 2012).
Tarrow, Sidney, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge:
Tarrow, Sidney, The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005).
Tilly, Charles, Social Movements, 17682004 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).
Socialism
Braunthal, Julius, History of the International (London: Nelson, 19661980).
Day, Alan John, The Socialist International: A Short History (London: Socialist International,
1969).
Devin, Guillaume, LInternationale Socialiste: Histoire et Sociologie du Socialisme International,
19451990 (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1993).
Drachkovitch, Milorad M. (ed.), The Revolutionary Internationals, 18641943 (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1966).
Foster, William Z., History of the Three Internationals: The World Socialist and Communist Movements from 1848 to the Present (New York: International Publishers, 1955).
International Working Mens Association, Address and Provisional Rules of the International
Workingmens Association, London, September 28th 1864 for the Celebration of the 60th Anniversary (Brussels: Labour and Socialist International, 1924).
Joll, James, The Second International, 18891914 (London: Routledge, 1974).
Lehning, Arthur, Buonarroti and His International Secret Societies, International Review of
Social History, 1 (1956), pp.11240.
Lehning, A. Mller, The International Association (18551859), International Journal for Social
History, 3 (1938), pp.185286.
Lichtheim, George, A Short History of Socialism (New York: Praeger, 1970).
Novack, George, Dave Frankel and Fred Feldman, The First Three Internationals: Their History
and Lessons (New York: Pathfinder, 1974).
Sassoon, Donald, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996).
Stekloff, G. M., History of the First International (London: Martin Lawrence, 1928).
Weisser, Henry, Chartist Internationalism, 18451848, Historical Journal, 14/1 (1971),
pp.4966.
See also the entries on Communism, Cooperatives and Labour.
Sport
Coubertin, Pierre de, Timoleon J. Philemon, N. G. Politis and Charalambos Anninos, The Olympic Games in 1896 (Athens: Charles Beck, 1897).
Goldblatt, David, The Odd Couple: Football and Global Civil Society, in Mary Kaldor, Martin Albrow, Helmut Anheier and Marlies Glasius (eds.), Global Civil Society 2006/7 (London: SAGE, 2007), pp.16084.

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Guttman, Allen, The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games (Champaign, IL: University of
Illinois Press, 2002).
Hill, Christopher R., Olympic Politics: Athens to Atlanta, 18961996 (Manchester: Manchester
International Olympic Committee, Le Congrs de Paris, Bulletin du Comit International des
Jeux Olympiques, 1/1 (1894), pp.12.
Large, David Clay, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
2007).
Riordan, James, and Arnd Krger (eds.), The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Century (London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1999).
Sugden, John, and Alan Tomlinson, FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples Game? (Cambridge: Polity, 1998).
Young, David C., The Modern Olympics: A Struggle for Revival (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
Standardization
Brunsson, Nils, and Bengt Jacobsson, A World of Standards (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2000).
International Electrotechnical Commission, Report of Preliminary Meeting held at the Hotel Cecil,
London, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 26th and 27th 1906 (London: International Electrotechnical Commission, 1906).
Loya, Thomas A., and John Boli, Standardization in the World Polity: Technical Rationality
over Power, in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1999), pp.16997.
Murphy, Craig N., and JoAnne Yates, The International Organization for Standardization (ISO):
Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
Tamm Hallstrm, Kristina, Organizing International Standardization: ISO and the IASC in Quest
of Authority (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 2004).
Yates, James, Narrative of the Origin and Formation of the International Association for Obtaining
a Uniform Decimal System of Measures, Weights and Coins (London: Bell and Daldy, 1856).
Transnational history
Benjamin, Thomas, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Clark, Ian, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Clark, Ian, International Legitimacy and World Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Conrad, Sebastian, and Dominic Sachsenmaier (eds.), Competing Visions of World Order: Global
Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity

Organization (AAPSO): 149;
aims of, 1356; formation of, 135
Aga Khan Foundation: creation of
(1967), 142
Agreement for the Repression of the
Circulation of Obscene Publications: drafting of, 68
Ahmadiyya Society for the Propagation of Islam: creation of (1914),
67
Albania: 134
Alcoholics Anonymous World
Services: establishment of (1935),
110
Alexandria Charter: launch of
(2004), 171
Algeria: Algiers, 25, 48; Oran, 47
All African Peoples Conference
(1958): 136
All-Asian Womens Conference
(1931): 107
All-India Khilafat Committee:
establishment of, 89
All-India Muslim Conference
(1919): resolutions of, 89
All-India Muslim League: boycotting of Indian Council of World
Affairs Conference (1947), 136;
formation of (1906), 67
Abduh, Muhammad: role in

formation of Salafiyyah movement, 56
Aborigines Protection Society:
545; formation of (1837), 41;
merger with BFASS (1909), 41
Academy of the Arabic Language:
establishment of (1932), 11819
al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din: role in
formation of Salafiyyah movement, 56
Afghanistan: Independence of
(1919), 89; Operation Enduring
Freedom (2001), 167
Africa Infrastructure Foundation:
African Association: formation of,
55; Pan-African Congress, 55
African Business Roundtable:
African Humanitarian Action:
African Network against Forced
Disappearances: 152
African Protestant Church: 119
African Refugees Foundation:
African Women Empowerment
Guild: formation of (1995), 158
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All India Trade Union Congress:

All India Womens Conference:
All Indian Pueblo Council: origins
of, 22
Alliance Isralite Universelle:
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief (Near East
Foundation): organization of
(1915), 79
American Committee for the Relief
of Belgium (CRB): establishment
of (1914), 79
American Dental Society of Europe:
American Federation of Labour:
117; personnel of, 83
American Institute of International
Law: creation of (1912), 67
American Jewish Congress: Jewish
Bill of Rights (1918), 82
America Relief Administration: 94
Amnesty International: 1, 154; aims
of, 3, 143; launch of (1961),
1423; personnel of, 162; UN
consultative status of, 143
Angell, Norman: Europes Optical
Illusion, 72
Anglo-American Association:
creation of (1871), 55
Anglo-Chinese Friendship Bureau:
Anglo-Oriental Society for the
Suppression of the Opium Trade:
Anjuman-i-Islam: transformation
into Pan-Islamic Society (1903),
56
Anna Lindh Foundation: 172;
270
Annales dOculistique: 37
Annales Encyclopdiques: 29
anti-colonialism: 17, 90; Islamic,
99100
Anti-Saloon League: 88
anti-slavery: 26, 28, 323, 44
Anti-Slavery International: formerly
BFASS, 4
Antwerp Universal Peace Congress
(1894): adoption of Code of
International Arbitration, 62
Appeal for European Nuclear
Disarmament (END): launch of
(1980), 152
Appropriate Health Resources
Technologies Action Group
(Healthink Worldwide): creation
of (1976), 147; dissolution of, 165
Arab Baath (Resurrection) Socialist
Party: formation of (1940), 126
Arab Bond Society: formation of
(1936), 126
Arab Centre for International
Humanitarian Law: 171
Arab Feminist Conference (1944):
126
Arab League: members of, 126
Arab NGO Network for Development: formation of (1996), 158
Arab NGO Network for Environment and Development: formation of (1990), 158
Arab Organization for Human
Rights: formation of (1983), 149
Arab Progress Society: formation of
(1930), 126
Arab Spring: 173; Egyptian
Revolution (2011), 172; media
coverage of, 171; potential impact
on INGO growth, 1812; social
media usage during, 172; Tunisian
Revolution (201011), 171
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Arab Union Club: reformation of

(1942), 126
Arabic Network for Human Rights
Information: 171
Arachnological Society of East Asia:
Arbeitsgruppe Dritte Welt
(AgDW): 150
arbitration: 612
Argentina: 59, 108; Buenos Aires,
47, 49, 79; disappearances in,
1512
Argentine Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo:
152
Argentinian Scientific Society: Latin
American Scientific Congress
(1898), 49
Armenia: 63
Asahi Glass Foundation: establishment of (1933), 119
Asia Association: 55
Asia Pacific Human Rights Information Centre: formation of
(1994), 158
Asia Pacific Human Rights NGOs
Facilitating Team: formation of
(1998), 158
Asia-Pacific Peoples Environment
Network: formation of (1983),
149
Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearance: 152
Asian Human Rights Network:
Asian Relations Organization: 138;
dissolution of (1957), 136
Asian Womens Human Rights
Council: formation of (1986), 149
Asiatic Society: 37; creation of
(1784), 27
Asiatic Society of Japan: creation of

(1872), 489
Association for European Cooperation: formation of (1926), 104
Association for Peace and Disarmament through Women: creation of
(1898), 61
Association for Progressive Communications: creation of (1987),
148
Association for Promoting the
Discovery of the Interior Parts of
Africa (African Association):
Association for the Taxation of
Financial Transactions and for
Citizens Advice (ATTAC): 159;
Association Internationale de
Bienfasisance: 35
Association Internationale des
Femmes (International Association of Women): 40; creation of
(1869), 60
Association of African Women for
Research and Development:
Association of All Classes of All
Nations: 29
Association of Arab Unity: formation of (1939), 126
Association of International Forest
Research Stations: formation of
(1892), 49
Association Universelle pour
lAdoption de la Marque de
Fabrique et la Dfense de la
Proprit Industrielle: 46
ATD Fourth World: formation of
(1957), 140
Atlantic Union: creation of (1897),
55

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Aubert, Thodore: 100

Australia: 30, 60, 108, 150; government of, 71; Melbourne, 47
Austria: 33, 51, 101, 113; Vienna,
25, 34, 50, 153
Austro-Hungarian Empire: 75;
Prague, 34
auxiliary languages: 467; Esperanto, 47, 70, 161; Volapk, 47
Avaaz: aims of, 170
Bahai Faith: formation of (1844), 42
Bahamas: 63
Bahaullah: founder of Bahai Faith,
42
Bahrain: 99
Baker, St Barbe: founder of International Tree Foundation, 102
Bakunin, Mikhail: 39
Bali Climate Change Summit
(2007): 170
Balfour, Arthur: 73
Bamby, John Goodwyn: influence of,
31
Barnett, Michael: 5
Beirut Summit: launch of (2004),
171
Belgium: 36, 38, 44, 60, 79, 113;
Brussels, 345, 37, 46, 50, 53, 61,
66, 6971, 867, 105, 107, 116;
German Invasion of (1914), 71;
Ghent, 61; government of, 68;
Lige, 73; Mons, 157; Revolution
(1830), 30
Benenson, Peter: 154, 180; role in
launch of Amnesty International,
142
Bentham, Jeremy: 43
Berne Convention (1866): 46;
INGOs created following, 64
Berzin, Janis K.: 79
272
Bhandakar Oriental Research

Institute: establishment of (1917),
79
Bidwell, Percy: 130
Bishop of Durham: role in creation
of White Cross Army (1883), 60
Blue Cross movement: creation of
(1877), 58
Bolivia: government of, 71
Bond of Arabism: formation of
(1939), 126
Bonney, Charles Carroll: 56
Borchardt, Julian: 79
Borel, mile: 74
Bourgeois, Lon: 71; French
delegate to Commission on the
League of Nations, 82; promotion
of Society of Nations concept, 80
Bangladesh Rural Advancement
Committee (BRAC): microfinance program, 1; structure of,
170
Brazil: 33, 63, 108, 159
Brazilian Business Association for
Citizenship: 159
Bretton Woods Conference (1944):
organizations formed at, 129
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society (BFASS): 4, 14, 33, 151;
establishment of (1839), 32, 43;
General Anti-Slavery Convention (1840), 334; merger with
Aborigines Protection Society
(1909), 41
British and Foreign Philanthropic
Society for the Permanent Relief
of the Labouring Classes:
British Empire Exhibition (1924):
104
British Library: 14
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Brittain, Vera: 115

Bryce Group: personnel of, 80
Buch, Walter: Nazi Chief Justice,
117
Buck, Pearl S.: founder of East and
West Association, 127
Buddhism: 57, 119
Bulgaria: 112, 134; Romanian
population of, 97
Bullock, H.L.: 133
Burma: 63
Burritt, Elihu: Olive Leaf Circles, 33
Bush, George H.W.: 154
Butler, Josephine: 64; anti-sex
trafficking activism of, 5960
Cameroon: 119
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): launch of (1957),
140
Campaign for World Government:
founding of (1937), 120
Canada: 36, 39, 5960, 66, 88, 108,
150; government of, 170; Newfoundland, 108
Cancun Summit (2010): marginalization of INGOs at, 166
Caracciola, Otto: 40
Caritas Internationalis: formation of
(1951), 140
Carnegeie, Andrew: 71
Carnegie Foundation: creation of
(1911), 65
Carson, Rachel: 154; Silent Spring
(1962), 1445
Cassin, Ren: role in creation of
UDHR, 137
Castel de Saint-Pierre, Charles-Irne: 43
Catholic Relief Services: origins of,
127
Catholicism: 57
Cecil, Robert: British delegate to
Commission on the League of
Nations, 82, 92
Central Bureau of International
Associations: transformation into
UIA, 71
Central Organization of Potters: 51
Chamber of Commerce of Latin
America: 125
Chatham House: establishment of
(1920), 878
Chavez, Hugo: 168
Chile: 63, 79
China: 25, 32, 59, 63, 161, 1656,
168, 172; 4 May Protests (1919),
89; Beijing, 89; government of, 71;
Peking, 82; Shanghai, 119; social
unrest in, 171; Xiamen, 171
Chinkiang Association for the
Saving of Life: establishment of
(1708), 25
Christian Aid: 127
Christianity: 20, 26; Bible, 119;
Eastern Orthodox, 57
Churchill, Winston: 73, 122
Ciraolo, Giovanni: role in creation
of IRU, 94
Citizens Conference on International Economic Union: creation
of (1943), 1289
civil society: 11, 155; concept of, 2;
development of, 16; global, 6, 154;
national, 76; transnational, 511,
1318, 201, 23, 27, 423, 45, 50,
64, 68, 768, 100, 11821, 1234,
1334, 1401, 153, 160, 163,
1656, 16871, 1756, 17882
Clark, Ian: 132
Clean Clothes Campaign: moral
code of, 157

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Clemenceau, Georges: 82
Clews, John: 135
Club Internacional de Mujeres:
Cluster Munition Coalition:
Coalition for Environmentally
Responsible Economies
(CERES): 157
Cold War: 7, 17, 72, 123, 1324,
142, 170, 1756, 1789; end of, 1,
4, 9, 12, 124, 1524, 1623
Columbian Exhibition (1893): 56
Comitati dazione per lUniversalit
di Roma (CAUR): 11314;
formation of (1933), 113;
Montreux Congress (1934), 113
Comit dEntente des Grandes
Associations Internationales: 93
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace: 130; founding of
(1939), 128; preliminary report of
(1940), 129
Committee for the Promotion of
International Trade: establishment
of (1952), 135
Committee for the Spread of Arab
Culture: formation of (1931), 126
Committee to Frame a World
Constitution: organization of
(1945), 128
communism: 31, 90, 11213, 116,
1334, 154, 182; international,
121; opposition to, 90, 1335
Communist (Third) International
(Comintern)(191943): 80, 113;
Executive Committee, 115; First
Congress (1919), 89
Communist League: creation of
(1847), 31
Communist Manifesto (18478):
423
274
Communist Propaganda Society

(Universal Communitarian
Association): formation of (1841),
31
Communist Youth International:
personnel of, 114
Confederacin Latinoamericana de
Cooperativas de Ahorro y
Crdito: formation of (1970), 149
Conference of Allied Suffragists:
834
Conference of the Evangelical
Alliance (1846): 34
Confucianism: 57
Congress of Industrial Organizations: role in distribution of
Marshall Aid, 133
Congress of Nationalities of the
Russian Empire (1919): resolutions adopted by, 823
Consumers Association of Penang:
149
Convention on Cluster Munitions
(2008): 169
Convention respecting Measures for
the Preservation and Protection of
Fur Seals (1911): 68
Convention with Respect to the
International Circulation of
Motor Vehicles (1909): drafting
of, 68
Congo: as Congo Free State, 54;
natural resources of, 55
Congo Reform Association:
Congress of Breda (1667): 28
Congress of European Nationalities:
Congress of Nijmegen (1678): 28
Congress of Vienna (1815): 289;
Declaration of the Powers on the
Abolition of the Slave Trade, 28
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de Constant, Baron dEstournelles:

71
Constantine, Prince: 54
Consumers International: establishment of (1960), 1478
Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE): 140;
origins of, 127
Co-ordinating Secretary of National
Unions of Students (Cosec): 135
Coote, William Alexander: Secretary of International Bureau for
the Suppression of the White
Slave Traffic, 60
Copenhagen Summit (2009): NGO
lobbying efforts during, 166
cosmopolitan values: examples of, 8
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count
Richard Nikolaus: founder of
International Pan-European
Union, 104
Council of the Five Nations of
Indians of North America: 27
Council of Europe: 136
Council on Foreign Relations:
12930; establishment of (1921),
88; personnel of, 130; relationship
with US State Department, 130
de Courbertin, Pierre: 71
Croatia: 158
Cuba: 108
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962): 141,
1434
Curtis, Lionel: 87
Cuthbertson, Ely: founder of World
Federation, 128
Czechoslovakia: 158; government
of, 112
dAelders, Etta Palm: leader of
Society of Women Friends of
Truth, 26
Davidson, Henry P.: 85

Davis, Norman: 130
Dawes Plan: 105; ICC influence in
development of, 102, 106, 121
decolonization: 123, 140, 1489, 178
Delaisi, Francis: 102
Denmark: 27, 59, 113; Copenhagen,
25, 66
Despard, Charlotte: 115
development: 5, 140, 142, 162
Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era: establishment of (1984), 146
Dickinson, Willoughby Hyett:
Chairman of League of Nations
Society, 80
disarmament: 602, 1089, 122, 180
Disarmament Committee of
Womens International Organizations: 116
Divine Life Society: founding of
(1936), 119
Djibouti: 99
Dodge, Cleveland: organization of
American Committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief, 79
Doha Declaration of Democracy
and Reform: launch of (2004),
171
Dolivet, Louis: organizer of Free
World Association, 117, 128
Dominican Republic: government
of, 71
Dominion Temperance Alliance: 88
Doumer, Paul: 73
Dulles, John Foster: founder of
Federal Council of Churches
Commission on a Just and
Durable Peace, 128
Dunant, Henri: 36, 44, 180; Nobel
Peace Prize recipient (1901), 65;

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proposal for Universal and

International Society for the
Revival of the Orient, 41; role in
creation of Red Cross, 378
East Africa and Uganda Natural
History Society: 67
East African Dental Association:
East African Womens League:
East and West Association:
East Asian Common Culture
Association: creation of (1898), 55
East India Association: founding of
(1866), 41
Eastern Bond Association: formation of (1922), 98
Eastern Womens Conference for
the Defence of Palestine: Permanent Central Committee of
Women for the Defence of
Palestine, 126
Egypt: 63, 98, 100, 108, 1256;
Cairo, 40, 118, 126, 135; Ismailia,
99; Revolution (1919), 89;
Revolution (2011), 172; Suez
Canal, 40, 64
Egyptian Feminist Union: members
of, 126
Eichelberger, Clark M.: 130;
co-founder of Commission to
Study the Organization of Peace,
128
Eigen, Peter: role in founding
Transparency International, 156
Einstein, Albert: 97
Emigdirect: partner in HICEM, 95
English Association: formation of
(1906), 73
276
Enlightenment: 19, 23, 43

Environmental Partnership for
Sustainable Development:
environmentalism: 5, 49, 102, 1445,
163
Equal Rights International: 107
Ethical Trading Initiative: 163
eugenics: promotion of, 734
European Anti-Fascist Workers
Congress (1933): creation of
European Workers Anti-Fascist
Union, 115
European Broadcasting Union:
formerly International Broadcasting Union, 136
European Coal and Steel Community: 136
European Economic Community
(EEC): banning of seal pelts
(1983), 151
European Environmental Bureau:
European League for Economic
Cooperation: 136
European Union (EU): 145, 163
European Union of Federalists:
Fair Labor Association: 163
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations
International: 157
Famine Relief Committee: creation
of (1942), 127
fascism: 11213, 117; Italian, 113;
opposition to, 11415
Fauna and Flora International:
Federacin Latinoamericana de
Prensa Peridica: establishment of
(1925), 99
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Federal Council of Churches:

Commission on a Just and
Durable Peace, 128
Federal Union: formation of (1938),
120
federalism: 120
Fdration Internationale de
Football Association (FIFA): 3;
World Cup, 119
Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry:
Federation of International SemiOfficial and Private Institutions
(FIIG): founding of, 105
Federation of Jewish Students: 113
Fdration Universlle de la Rgnration Humaine: creation of, 50
feminism: 5, 106, 110, 126, 146
Ferrire, Adolphe: founder of
International Bureau of New
Schools, 53
Fight the Famine Council: aims of,
86
Fiji: 108
First International Anti-Fascist
Congress (1929): personnel of,
11415
First World War (191418): 6,
1617, 20, 712, 77, 96, 104, 106,
123, 127, 161, 176, 179, 182;
belligerents of, 78, 125; German
Invasion of Belgium (1914), 71;
impact on INGO growth, 65,
6970, 75, 80, 177, 181; Paris
Peace Conference (1919), 77,
813, 87, 106; prisoners of, 94;
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine
(1919), 112; Treaty of Versailles
(1919), 845; US entry into, 79
First Zionist Congress (1897):
formation of World Zionist

Organization at, 56
Fish, Hamilton: 130
Ford Foundation: establishment of
(1936), 110; Overseas Development Office, 140
Foreign Relations of the United States
Diplomatic Papers: 13
Forest Stewardship Council: 157
Forum on Environment and
Development: personnel of, 166
Fournier, Claude: 25
Fourth International (World Party
of the Socialist Revolution):
establishment of congress (1938),
118
Fourth World Conference on
Women (1995): Beijing Platform
for Action, 166
France: 212, 268, 30, 334, 36,
389, 59, 71, 79, 97, 99, 109, 118,
150, 157; Alsace, 131; Cannes, 85;
colonies of, 33; Dreyfus Affair
(18941906), 56; July Revolution
(1830), 2930; Lorraine, 131;
Paris, 25, 302, 345, 37, 41, 45,
47, 504, 601, 67, 74, 812, 87,
89, 95, 97, 99, 115, 118, 137;
Revolution (178999), 25, 51, 64,
175
Frankfurt Penitentiary Congress
(1846): 34
Free World Association: organization of (1941), 128
Freemasons: 25, 44; lodges of, 22
French League for the Rights of
Man: 131
Friedan, Betty: Feminine Mystique,
The, 1456
Friends International Service: offices
of, 105

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Friends of the Earth: establishment

of (1969), 145
de Fuveau, Alexandre-Victor Hupay:
Republican Koran, 25
Gabrys, Jean: 75; co-founder of
Central Office of Nationalities/
UON, 74
Gandhi, Mohandas: 89
Garibaldi, Giuseppe: 39
Garvey, Marcus: founder of UNIA,
78
General Arab Womens Federation:
Geneva Research Centre: establishment of (1920), 105
Geneva Society of Public Utility:
International Committee for Aid
to the Wounded in Situations of
War, 38
Germany: 36, 41, 49, 51, 59, 71, 73,
78, 118, 150; Baden-Baden, 53;
Berlin, 34, 52, 95; Cologne, 40;
Constance, 80; Danish population
of, 97; Dresden, 40, 66; electoral
system of, 121; Frankfurt, 31, 35;
government of, 131; Jewish
population of, 28; Koblenz, 40;
Stuttgart, 72; Wiesbaden, 48
Ghana: Accra, 136
Gide, Charles: 73
Global Call to Action Against
Poverty (GCAP): 175; formation
of (2004), 167
Global Campaign for Womens
Human Rights: 155
Global Financial Crisis (20079):
impact on INGOs, 1656, 172
Global Movements of Moderates:
172; launch of (2012), 171
Global Reporting Initiative: 163
278
Global Tribunal on Violations of

Womens Human Rights: 155
globalization: 2, 12, 165, 1689, 176,
179; neo-liberal, 16970
Godde de Liancourt, CalisteAuguste: role in creation of
Socit Gnrale des Naufrafes et
de lUnion des Nations, 32
Goebbels, Joseph: 116
Goegg, Marie: role in formation of
Association Internationale des
Femmes, 40, 60
Gompers, Samuel: President of
American Federation of Labour,
83
Gorky, Maxim: 97
government-organized non-governmental organizations (GONGOs): 172; examples of, 168
Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies:
Grajew, Oded: role in development
of WSF, 159
Great Depression: 11; impact of, 110
Great Exhibition (1851): INGOs
formed following, 35
Greece: 54, 113, 127; War of
Independence (182132), 30
Greening, Owen: 52
GreenNet: creation of (1986), 148
Greenpeace: establishment of
(1969), 145
Group of Eight (G8): 167
Habsburg Empire: 41; collapse of,
134
Hague Conferences: 16, 76, 80, 145;
First (1899), 19, 62, 177; Second
(1907), 68, 177
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Hague Opium Convention (1912):

68; ratification of, 82
Haiti: 108; Revolution (17911804),
25
Handbooks of International Organizations: 15
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Initiative: 159
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society:
partner in HICEM, 95
HelpAge International: creation of
(1983), 148
Helsinki Final Act (1975): 153
Herzl, Theodor: role in organising
First Zionist Congress, 56
HICEM: establishment of (1927),
95
Hinduism: 57
Hitler, Adolf: 73; rise to power
(1933), 113, 122; withdrawal of
Germany from League of
Nations, 109
HIV/AIDS: 157
Hizb ut-Tahrir: 137
Hobson, John: 5
Hglund, Zeth: 79
Honduras: 63
Hoover, Herbert: establishment of
CRB (1914), 79
Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace: formerly
Hoover War Collection, 87
Hopkins, Ellice: role in creation of
White Cross Army (1883), 60
Howard, Michael: 73, 76
Howe, Julia Ward: call for Womans
Peace Congress (1870), 60
Hugo, Victor: role in formation of
International Literary and Artistic
Association, 46
human rights: 5, 90, 96, 131, 137,

1413, 153, 158, 162, 171
Human Rights Education: 171
Human Rights Information and
Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS): creation of
(1982), 148
Human Rights Watch (Helsinki
Watch): 153
humanitarianism: 5, 32, 37, 86, 94,
127, 140, 147, 168; transnational,
5
Hungary: 101, 158; Budapest, 53
Iceland: 95
imperialism: 43, 45, 179; opposition
to, 56, 89
Independent Order of Good
Templars: 21
India: 59, 63, 95, 99, 108, 136, 165;
Amritsar Massacre (1919), 89;
Bangalore, 125; Bihar, 140; Delhi,
89, 99; Dhaka, 67; Kolkata
(Calcutta), 27, 37, 67; military of,
125; Mumbai, 119, 149; New
Delhi, 119, 158; Partition (1947),
125; Pune, 79
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science: formation of
(1876), 55
Indian Council of World Affairs:
conference (1947), 136
Indian Institute of World Culture:
Indian Ocean Earthquake and
Tsunami (2004): increase in
INGO contribution following,
169
Indian Society of Oriental Art:

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Independent Order of Good

Templars: 58
Indian National Association:
Indian National Congress: creation
of (1885), 55
Indonesia: 108
Industrial Revolution: 23, 36; social
impact of, 19
Infant Formula Action Committee
(INFACT): formation of (1976),
150
Institute for Intercultural Studies
(Council on Intercultural
Relations): founding of (1941),
127
Institute of International Education
(IIE): aims of, 87; formation of
(1919), 87
Institute of Oriental Classics:
Institute of Pacific Relations: 127;
creation of (1925), 99, 103
Institute on Postwar Reconstruction:
Institute on World Organization:
International Consultative Group,
1289
Inter-Allied Bureau of League of
Nations Societies: establishment
of, 81
Inter-Allied Federation of Ex-Service Men (FIDAC): 124, 139;
Inter-American Bar Association:
125
Inter-American Commission of
Women: 110
Inter-American Statistical Institute
(ISI): 125
Intercontinental Encounter for
280
Humanity and against Neoliberalism: 156

Intercontinental Network for the
Promotion of the Social Solidarity
Economy (RIPESS): 170
Interdoc: creation of (1984), 148
Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility (ICCR): creation
of (1973), 150
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty (1987): signing of,
152
Inter-Movement Evacuees Committee (CIMADE): establishment
of (1939), 131
International Abolitionist Federation: origins of, 5960
International Academy of Indian
Culture: establishment of (1935),
119
International Action of Nationalisms: Zurich meeting (1934), 114
International Actuarial Association:
48, 64; formation of (1895), 53
International African Association:
54
International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative: formation of (1996),
157
International Air Traffic Association
(IATA): 106; creation of (1919),
102; succeeded by International
Air Transport Association, 132
International Air Transport
Association: successor to IATA,
132
International Alliance of Women:
83, 107, 116; decline of, 124;
revising of aims of (1920), 97
International Anti-Opium Association: formation of (1918), 82
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International Arbitration and Peace

Association: 61
International Arbitration League: 61
International Association: 30
International Association for
Customs Reform: 34
Obtaining a Uniform Decimal
System of Measures, Weights and
Coins: branches of, 35; establishment of (1855), 45
Promoting the Study of Quaternions and Allied Systems of
Mathematics: formation of
(1899), 48
Religious Freedom: formerly
International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious
Thinkers and Workers, 57
Testing Materials: formation of
(1895), 48
International Association for the
Prevention of Blindness: creation
of (1929), 94
Progress of the Social Sciences: 37
Protection of Child Welfare:
International Association of
Academies: 78; formation of
(1899), 478
Charities: origins of, 22
Athletics Federations: establishment of (1912), 69
Democratic Lawyers (IADL):

1345
International Association of Labour
Legislation: formation of (1900),
456, 68
Seismology: formation of (1903),
68
International Association of Women
and Home Page Journalists:
International Baby Food Action
Network (IBFAN): formation of
(1979), 1501
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: 130
International Bureau for the
Suppression of the White Slave
Traffic: formation of (1899), 60;
personnel of, 60
International Bureau of Abstaining
Students: establishment of, 70
International Bureau of Labour: 100
International Bureau of New
Schools: formation of (1899), 53
International Association of Public
Transport: 53
International Board: purpose of,
534
International Broadcasting Union
(IBU): 106; establishment of
(1925), 102
International Bureau Against
Alcoholism: formation of (1907),
70
International Bureau of Labour: 100
International Bureau of Societies for
the Protection of Animals and
Anti-Vivisection Societies:
International Bureau of Weights and
Measures: creation of (1875), 45

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International Campaign to Ban

Landmines: 7, 160; shortcomings
of, 166
International Catholic Federation of
Total Abstainers: establishment
of, 70
International Central Bureau for the
Campaign against Tuberculosis:
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): 3, 1516, 8990,
121; formation of, 40, 84;
influence of, 1012, 106; personnel of, 101; precursors to, 69
International Class War Prisoners
Aid: 100
International Club of Horse Racing:
founding of, 53
International Commission of
Agriculture: 52
International Committee for Bird
Preservation: formation of (1922),
103
International Committee for
Russian Relief: creation of (1921),
94
International Committee of
Abstaining Priests: establishment
of, 70
International Committee of the Red
Cross: 945, 107
International Committee of Women
for Permanent Peace: 84
International Committee on
Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC):
relationship with INGOs, 93
International Community of
Women Living with HIV/AIDS:
International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions (ICFTU): 163; role
282
in formation of ITUC, 170;

secession from WFTU (1949),
133
International Confederation of
Students: 113, 124; founding of
(1919), 88
International Conference of
Associations of Disabled Soldiers
and Ex-Serviceman (CIAMAC):
109, 116; members of, 104
International Conference on the
Simplification of Customs
Formalities (1923): Final Act, 101
International Congress Against War
(1932): establishment of World
Committee against Imperialist
War, 115
International Congress of Central
American Students: creation of
(1910), 67
International Congress of Economists: 34
International Congress of Orientalists (1873): 48
International Congress of Women
Physicians (1919): INGOs
formed at, 88
International Congresses of Asian
and North African Studies: 48
International Consultative Group
for Peace and Disarmament: 14,
109, 124, 175, 178
International Co-operative Alliance
(ICA): 1, 102, 116, 177; formation
of (1895), 52; members of, 63
International Co-operative Congress
(1895): formation of ICA at, 52
International Council for Democratic Institutions and State
Soveriegnity: 168
International Council for Science
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(ICSU): formerly International

Research Council, 86
International Council of AIDS
Service Organizations: creation of
(1990), 157
International Council of Ophthalmology: 37
International Council of Nurses:
International Council of Scientific
Unions: 3
International Council of Social
Welfare: formation of (1928),
956
International Council of Voluntary
Agencies: establishment of
(1962), 142
International Council of Women
(ICW): 50, 84, 98, 107; creation
of, 68; offices of, 105; personnel
of, 97
International Court of Justice (ICJ):
1, 160
International Criminal Court: 1;
Rome Statute, 155, 178
International Dairy Federation:
International Electrotechnical
Commission: aims of, 69
International Entente against the
Third International: branches of,
1001; creation of (1924), 100
International Federation for Human
Rights (FIDH): aims of, 96;
International Federation for the
Extension and the Culture of the
French Language: establishment
of (1905), 73
International Federation of Accountants: 3
International Federation of Associations of the Elderly: creation of

(1980), 148
International Federation of Business
and Professional Women: 107
International Federation of Christian Trade Unions: creation of
(1920), 101
International Federation of Commercial Travellers: formation of
(18971900), 53
International Federation of Eugenics Organizations: establishment
of (1924), 103
International Federation of Film
Producers Associations: establishment of (1933), 110
International Federation of Free
Journalists (IFFJ): 134; consultative status of, 135
International Federation of League
of Nations Societies (IFLNS):
116; aims of, 97; establishment of
(1919), 81; member branches of,
11112; personnel of, 81, 120, 124
International Federation of Museum
Officials: formation of (1898), 53
International Federation of National
Standardization Associations:
102, 138
International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC): 161; establishment of
(1919), 856; voluntary contributions to, 165, 172
International Federation of Students: formation of (1889), 53
International Federation of Tobacco
Workers: formation of, 51
International Federation of Trade
Unions (IFTU): 90, 1001, 109,

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117; formerly International

Secretariat of National Trade
Union Centres, 66; succeeded by
WFTU, 132; World Peace
Congress (1922), 104
International Federation of Womens
Travel Organizations: 146
International Federation on Ageing:
International Fellowship of Reconciliation: 88
International Friends of Nature:
development of, 49
International Garden Cities and
Town Planning Association:
formation of, 66
International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights (IHR): 153;
bankruptcy of, 165
International HIV/AIDS Alliance:
International Hologram Manufacturers Association: formation of
(1993), 161
International Hotel and Restaurant
Association: formation of (1947),
138
International Hoteliers Alliance:
International Humanitarian Bureau
of Animal Lovers: establishment
of (1928), 103
International Institute of Bibliography: 70; formation of (1895), 46;
Universal Bibliographic Repertory, 46
International Institute of Refrigeration: formation of (1909), 66
International Institute of Social
History: 14; establishment of
(1935), 118
284
International Institute of Sociology:

International Kindergarten Union
(Association for Childhood
Education International):
International Labour and Socialist
Conference (Berne Conference)
(1919): resolutions passed by, 83
International Labour Organization
(ILO): 46, 98, 101, 161; Constitution of, 83; creation of, 16; origins
of, 83; relationship with INGOs,
93; Washington DC Conference
(1919), 85
International Law Association:
International Law Institute:
adoption of Declaration of the
International Rights of Man
(1929), 96
International League Against
Racism and Anti-Semitism:
origins of, 97
International League of Anti-Vaccinators: 50, 78
International League for the Rights
of Man: establishment of (1941),
131
International League for Peace and
Liberty: 60
International League for Rights of
Man and Citizenship: 109
International League of Women for
General Disarmament: promotion
of International Senate concept,
61
International Left Opposition:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
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Trans and Intersex Association:

International Literary and Artistic
Association: formation of (1878),
46
International Migration Service:
International Monarchist League:
International Monetary Fund
(IMF): 155; formation of (1944),
12930
International Neo-Malthusian
Correspondence and Resistance
Bureau: 78
International Nestl Boycott
Committee: 151
International NGOs Accountability
Charter: participation in, 172
international non-governmental
organizations (INGOs): 13, 9,
1214, 22, 30, 32, 40, 42, 46, 73,
105, 11718, 120, 124, 175,
1812; accountability of, 170;
ancient forms of, 203, 36;
business (BINGOs), 52, 69, 72,
85, 150, 163; Communist front,
114, 116, 1335; development of,
18, 25, 36, 1234; educational and
research, 53, 87, 103; environmental, 1023, 1445; humanitarian,
32, 37, 86, 147, 168; increase in
number of, 67, 1112, 1516,
1920, 345, 445, 523, 625,
6970, 75, 8892, 11011, 1267,
1323, 13840, 141, 1578,
1645, 176, 178, 181; individual
focuses of, 1, 3, 5, 17, 24; global
union federation, 502; linguistic,
78; manipulation of, 1678;
methods of, 63; non-profit-mak-
ing, 15; publications of, 14;

regional, 66, 136; resources of, 8;
scientific, 37, 4850, 86; sports,
534, 69; transport, 53, 139;
veterans, 1034; womens, 88,
978, 1456
International Office for the Protection of Nature: 139
International Olympic Committee
(IOC): 114; formation of, 54
International Organisation of
Industrial Employers: establishment of (1919), 85
International Organization for
Cultivating Universal Human
Spirit: founding of (1961), 142
International Organization of
Consumers Unions (IOCU): 150;
influence of, 148; members of, 149
Journalists (IOJ): 134; loss of
consultative status, 135
Standardization: formation of
(1947), 138
International Pan-European Union:
International Peace Bureau: 104;
International Peace Campaign
(IPC): launch of (1936), 116;
personnel of, 128
International Peasant Council: 100
International Physicians for
Prevention of Nuclear War
(IPPNW): founding of (1980),
152
International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF): establishment
of (1952), 139

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International Prohibitionist
Federation: creation of (1909), 70
International Publishers Association: formation of (1896), 52, 64
International Railway Congress
Association: affiliates of, 53;
International Red Cross: establishment of (1858), 37; origins of, 38
International Relief Association:
branches of, 118
International Relief Union (IRU):
International Rescue Committee:
origins of, 11718
International Road Federation:
International Rugby Football Board:
54
International Secretariat of National
Trade Union Centres: creation of
(1901), 66; transformation into
International Federation of Trade
Unions (1913), 66
International Socialist Bureau:
International Society for Racial
Hygiene: establishment of (1905),
73
International Society for the Study
of Questions connected with Poor
Relief: formation of, 51
International Society of Esperantist
Free-Thinkers: 70
International Statistical Institute:
180; formation of (1885), 48;
model of, 53
International Sunday Observance
Federation: formation of (1876),
45
International Textile Manufacturers
286
Federation: establishment of
(1904), 69
International Total Abstainers
Association of Railway Workers:
establishment of, 70
International Touring Alliance:
formation of, 53
International Trade Conference
(1919): origins of ICC in, 84
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC): 176; formation of
(2006), 170
International Tree Foundation:
International Typographical
Secretariat: 51
International Typographical Union:
39
International Union Against
Cancer: establishment of (1934),
110
International Union against
Tuberculosis: creation of (1920),
94
International Union against
Vivisection: 78; formation of
(1902), 66
International Union for Combating
Venereal Diseases: creation of
(1924), 94
International Union for the
Conservation of Nature: creation
of (1948), 139
International Union for the
Protection of Infants: formation
of (1907), 66
International Union of Academies:
International Union of Catholic
Womens Organizations: 1089
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International Union of Electricity

Stations: formation of (1892), 52
International Union of Ethical
Societies: 78
International Union of Friends of
Young Women: founding of
(1877), 59
International Union of Marine
Insurance: founding of (1874), 52
International Union of Penal Law:
International Union of Photography: formation of (1891), 53
International Union of Press
Associations: formation of, 53
International Union of Socialist
Youth (IUSY ): 134; increase in
consultative status, 135
International Union of Students
(IUS): 134
International Union of Women
Architects: formation of (1963),
146
International Union of Women for
Peace: creation of (1895), 601
International Voluntary Service for
Peace (Service Civil International): establishment of (1920),
95
International Voluntary Services:
International Womens Committee
of Permanent Peace: creation of
(1915), 80
International Womens Rights
Congress (1878/1889): 59
International Working Mens
Association: 3; formation of
(1864), 389, 44
International Youth Hostel Federation: establishment of (1932), 110
Internationalis Concordia: 47, 78

internationalism: 54; business, 90;
cultural, 90, 103; development of,
43; European, 76
Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN):
3; founding of (1998), 1578
Internet Society: founding of
(1992), 157
Interparliamentary Conference
(1889): 61
Inter-Parliamentary Union: 104,
107; founding of (1889), 61
Iraq: 126; Baghdad, 27, 126;
Operation Iraqi Freedom
(200311), 167, 171
Iriye, Akira: 103, 1412
Iron Molders International Union:
39
Islam: 17, 41, 57, 67, 99; cultural
traditions of, 87; political, 171;
revivalism, 42; Sufism, 21, 42, 99;
Wahhabism, 42
Islamic Cultural Centre: inauguration of (1944), 125
Islamic Relief Worldwide: founding
of (1984), 147
Islamic Research Association:
Islamism: 56, 137
Italian Red Cross: personnel of, 94
Italy: 38, 59, 71; Genoa, 25; Milan,
34, 69; Rome, 61
Jainism: 57
Jamaat-e-Islami: establishment of,
125
Jamaica: 60, 63, 78, 108
Jameson, Margaret Storm: 115
Japan: 38, 48, 55, 60, 623, 108, 119,

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142, 168; Osaka, 158; Yokohama,

49
Japanese Pan-Asian Society:
Pan-Asian Conferences, 98
Japanese Society of International
Law: 63; formation of (1897), 61
Jebb, Eglantyne: co-founder of Save
the Children Fund, 86; role in
formation of International
Council on Social Welfare, 95
Jewish Colonization Association:
partner in HICEM, 95
Joint Standing Committee of
International Womens Organizations: members of, 978
Jordan, David Starr: 73
Journeymen Cigar Makers International Union: 39
Jubilee 2000 petition: 7, 159, 167,
175
Judaism: 20, 37, 57; persecution of,
56, 95, 97, 114, 118
Jullien de Paris, Marc-Antoine:
promotion of Socit Encyclopdique idea, 29
Kant, Immanuel: 43
Kennedy, John F.: 143
Kenya: 67, 98; Nairobi, 79, 145, 166
Khan, Amanullah: 89
Khan, Pir Hadrat Inayat: founder of
Sufi Order in the West, 67
Khilafat movement: origins of, 89
Kifaya: media coverage of Arab
Spring, 171
Kikuyu Central Association: 98
Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 134
Knights Templar: 21
Kosmos: formation of (1898), 47
La Fontaine, Henri: 74; co-founder
288
of UIA, 70; head of International

Conference on Bibliography, 46,
70
Labour and Socialist International
(LSI): 101, 104, 109, 139
Landless Workers Movement: 159
Latin American and Caribbean
Alliance of YMCAs: creation of
(1914), 67
Latin American Federation of
Associations for Relatives of the
Detained and Disappeared
(FEDEFAM): 152
Latin American Odontological
Federation (FOLA): establishment of (1917), 79
Latin American Society for Plastic
Surgery: 125
La Via Campesina: establishment of
(1993), 157
League Against Pogroms: establishment of (1927), 97
League of Islamic Revolutionary
Studies: formation of (1920), 100
League of Nations: 13, 15, 77, 89,
96, 99101, 106, 1089, 111, 120,
128, 138, 145, 175; Assembly of,
95, 97, 104; Child Welfare
Committee, 95; Commission on,
824; Committee on Social
Questions, 110; Council of, 83,
97, 105, 110; Covenant of, 812,
84, 923; creation of, 7, 16, 90, 92,
1778; Declaration on the Rights
of the Child (1924), 95, 105;
Handbook of International
Organisations (1929), 105; League
of Nations Assembly Journal, 104;
relationship with INGOs, 934,
96, 107, 110, 132, 180; Secretariat
of, 923, 105; Soviet entry into
INDEX
(1934), 116; World Economic

Conference (1927), 1012
League of Nations Society: formation of (1915), 80
League of Nations Union: personnel
of, 127
League of Outlaws: formation of
(1834), 31
League of Red Cross Societies:
lobbying efforts of, 94
League of the Just: 36; creation of
(1836), 31
League to Abolish Racial Discrimination: 82
League to Enforce Peace (LEP):
creation of (1915), 80; First
Annual National Assemblage
(1916), 81; influence of, 801
Leavitt, Mary: envoy of WCTU, 58
Lebanon: 99; Beirut, 126
Lecache, Bernard: founder of
League Against Pogroms, 97
Lemonnier, Charles: founder of
LIPL, 39; role in organization of
Universal Peace Congresses, 61
Lenin, Vladimir: 79
Leopold II of Belgium, King: 68;
reign of, 545
Liaison Committee of Womens
International Organizations:
members of, 1078
Lichtenstein, Walter: 129
Ligue de la Patrie Arabe: aims of,
67; establishment of (1904), 67
Ligue des Droits de lHomme: aims
of, 96
Ligue Internationale de la Paix et de
la Libert (LIPL): 40; creation of
(1867), 39; criticisms of, 73
Ligue Internationale et Permanente
de la Paix: as Socit Franaise
des Amis de la Paix, 39; formation

of (1867), 39
Lithuania: 113
Live Aid: 147
Live 8 List: 7
Lloyd, Lola Maverick: co-founder of
Campaign for World Government, 120
London School of Economics:
Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, 160
Luxembourg, Rosa: 72
Lyons, F.S.L.: 76
MacDonald, Ramsay: 109
MacShane, Denis: 133
Madagascar: 63, 108
Maier, Juergen: Director of Forum
on Environment and Development, 166
Makino Nobuaki, Baron: 82
Malaysia: 171; Penang, 149
Malthusian League: creation of
(1877), 50
Mandelstam, Andr: 96
Marine Stewardship Council: 157
Marshall Aid: distribution of, 133
Marx, Karl: 389, 44
Matthews, Jessica: 5
Mazzini, Giuseppe: 44, 73; founder
of Young Europe, 301, 74
McKenna, Reginald: 73
McMeekin, Sean: 115
Mead, Margaret: founder of Council
on Intercultural Relations, 127
Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF): 1,
3; creation of (1971), 147
Medical Assistance Programs
International: formation of
(1954), 140
Medical Womens International

289
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Association: founding of (1919),

88
Mexico: 63, 95, 108; government of,
71; Zapatista Uprising, 156
Miller, Carol: 110
Miller, David Hunter: 81
Millin, Aubin-Louis: Magasin
Enyclopdique, 29
Monaco: 70
Morocco: 75, 99
Moscow Helsinki Group: 153
Movement Against Economic
Globalization (INPEG): 1612
Muenzenberg, Willi: 11516; Chair
of First International Anti-Fascist
Congress, 11415; Commission of
Inquiry into the Origins of the
Reichstag Fire, 116
Mughal Empire: 27
Murray, Gilbert: 127
Murray, John: 86
Muslim Aid: founding of (1985),
147
Muslim Brotherhood: 173; branches
of, 99100; establishment of
(1928), 99; welfare services of, 1,
100
Muslim World League: formation of
(1962), 149
Mussolini, Benito: 113
al-Muthanna: formation of (1935),
126
al-Nabhani, Shaykh Taqiuddin:
founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir, 137
Nansen, Fridtjof: League of Nations
High Commissioner for Repatriation of Prisoners, 94
Naorojii, Dadabhai: role in founding
of East India Association, 41
Napoleonic Wars (180315): 29
290
National Committee for a Sane

Nuclear Policy (SANE): launch of
(1957), 140
National Councils of Women: 59;
creation of, 58
National Library of France: 14
nationalism: 12, 41, 48, 72, 98, 113,
17980; Arab, 126; development
of, 24; Indian, 98; internationalist,
31; Italian, 39; macro-, 34, 55;
militant, 76; pan-, 45, 90
Nationalist Action League: formation of (1933), 126
Natural Foot Society: formation of
(1895), 59
Nature: 48
Nehru, Jawaharlal: role in organization of Afro-Asian Conference
(1929), 99
Nerman, Ture: 79
Nestl: boycotting of products of,
1501
Netherlands: 27, 59, 113, 118;
Amsterdam, 14, 25, 100, 1034,
115; Antwerp (Anvers), 51, 53;
Hague, The, 71, 80, 102, 157;
Holland, 36; Utrecht, 26
Network of East-West Women:
New England Company: formation
of (1649), 22
New Zealand: 5960, 108, 150;
womens suffrage movement in,
45, 58, 63
Nicholas II, Tsar: 68; Rescript
(1898), 62
Niger: 147
Nigeria: 108
No Border Network: establishment
of (1999), 157
Nobel, Alfred: will of, 65
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Nobel Foundation: creation of, 65

Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968):
144
Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to
Champion Human Rights:
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) (1994): 156
North Sea Fisheries Convention
(1882), 49
Norway: 113
Olympic Games: 119; Berlin (1936),
114; revival of, 54; Stockholm
(1912), 69
Open Door International for the
Economic Emancipation of the
Woman Worker: formation of
(1929), 98
Order of St John: 16; St Johns
Ambulance, 21
Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development
(OECD): 170; Multilateral
Agreement on Investment, 156,
164, 176
Organization of African Trade
Union Unity: formation of
(1973), 149
Ostwald, Wilhelm: 71
Otlet, Paul: Chair of Third International Congress of Nationalities
(1916), 75; co-founder of UIA,
70; head of International Conference on Bibliography, 46, 70; La
Fin de Guerre, 75; proposal for
Mundaneum, 107
Ottawa Landmines Convention
(1997): 155, 176; non-signatories
to, 161, 166
Ottoman Empire: 38, 41, 56, 63, 75;
Armenian Genocide (1915), 79;

Constantinople, 60, 67
Oxfam International: 17, 150;
formation of (1942), 127; relief
efforts of, 140, 162
Owen, Robert: 29; role in formation
of British and Foreign Philanthropic Society for the Permanent
Relief of the Labouring Classes,
29
Paine, Thomas: 25
Pakistan: Independence of (1947),
137; Lahore, 67, 107, 125
Palestine: 99100, 108; Arab Revolt
(19369), 126; Jaffa, 126; Jerusalem, 99
Pan-African Congress (1919): 89
pan-Africanism: as macro-nationalism, 55; revival of, 136
Pan-American Association of
Ophthalmology: 125
Pan-American Federation of
Architects Associations: creation
of (1920), 99
Pan-American Federation of Labor:
Pan-American Liaison Committee
of Womens Organizations: 125
Pan-American Railway Congress
Association: creation of (1906), 67
Pan-American Society: 67
Pan-American Womens Association: 107
pan-Americanism: development of,
67
pan-Arabism: 1256
pan-Atlanticism: 55
pan-Europeanism: 104
pan-Germanism: 55

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Pan-Islamic Society: formerly

Anjuman-i-Islam, 56
pan-Islamism: concept of, 56
Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia
Womens Association
(PPSEAWA): creation of (1925),
99
Pan-Pacific Union: establishment of
(1912), 67
Pan-Pacific Womens Conferences
(1928/1930): 99
pan-Slavisim: 55
pan-Turanism: development of, 56
pan-Turkism: development of, 56
Panama: 63
Pankhurst, Sylvia: 115
Paris Commune (1871): 38;
suppression of, 39
Paris Universal Exhibition (1855):
INGOs formed following, 35
formation of INGOs during, 64
55
Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963): 144
Passy, Frdric: 64; Nobel Peace
Prize recipient (1901), 65; role in
formation of Ligue Internationale
et Permanente de la Paix, 39; role
in organization of Universal Peace
Congresses, 61
Patriotic Alliance: formation of
(1865), 56
Pax Romana: 113
Peace of Westphalia (1648): political
impact of, 5
PeaceNet: creation of (1985), 148
Plisser, Jean: co-founder of Central
Office of Nationalities/UON,
745
292
Peoples International League:

Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses: 53
Permanent International Committee
of Mothers: creation of, 135
Permanent International Conference
of Private Organisations for the
Protection of Migrants: creation
of (1924), 95
Permanent Court of International
Arbitration: establishment of, 62
Peru: 38
Pesticide Action Network: formation of (1982), 149
Petliura, Symon: alleged role in
pogroms in Ukraine, 97
Phonetic Teachers Association
(International Phonetic Association): formation of (1886), 45
Pickard, Bertram: Secretary of
Quaker International Centre, 106
Platten, Fritz: 79
Ploetz, Alfred: founder of International Society for Racial Hygiene,
73
Poland: 101, 158; November
Uprising (18301), 30
Popular Front: development of, 116
Portugal: 27, 33, 113; Lisbon, 25
Post War World Council: formation
of, 129
Prague Fascist Club: offices of, 112
Proletarian Freethinkers: 100
Prussia: 27, 33
Publish What You Pay: expansion
of, 170
Pugwash Conferences on Science
and World Affairs: launch of
(1957), 140
INDEX
al-Qaeda: affiliates of, 164

Al-Qahtaniyah: creation of (1909),
67
Quaker International Centre:
personnel of, 106
Quakerism: 16, 28, 32, 44; Declaration Against Plots and Fightings
(1661), 21; influence of, 26
Quintuple Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade: signing of
(1841), 33
Quota International: aims of, 88
Radek, Karl: 79
Radziwill, Gabrielle: 93
Ramabai, Pamita: founder of
Ramabai Association, 59
Ramabai Association: creation of
(1887), 59
Ramakrishna Math: 63, 119
Red International of Labour Unions
(Profintern): 101; creation of
(1921), 100
Red Sports International: 100
Reinsch, Paul: 4
Religious Society of Friends:
formation of, 21
Republic of Ireland: 113; Dublin, 25
Revue Encyclopdique: 42
Rice, Stuart: 125
Rio Earth Summit (1992): 166;
attendees of, 154
Robins, Dorothy: 130
Rockefeller Foundation: formation
of (1913), 65
Roman Catholic Church: 16
Romania: 113, 134; Bulgarian
population of, 97
Roosevelt, Eleanor: 1378
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 127;
advocacy of Four Freedoms

(1941), 131
Roosevelt, Theodore: 68
Rostow, Walt Whitman: Stages of
Economic Growth, 141
Rotary International: 88, 90, 117;
origins of, 656
Round About Club: formation of
(1895), 47
Royal and Central Society of
Rescuers: congresses convened by,
50
Royal Geographical Society:
absorption of African Association
(1831), 41; formation of (1830),
41
Royal Institute of International
Affairs: 130
Royal Jennerian Society for the
Extermination of the Small-Pox:
aims of, 278; institution of
(1803), 27
Royal Library of Belgium: 14
Royal Society: establishment of
(1660), 22; International Catalogue Committee, 46
Russian Empire: 28, 33, 38, 75, 78,
82; October Revolution (1917),
80, 90; pogroms in, 56
Russian Federation: 161, 166, 172;
government of, 168
Ruyssen, Thodore: 121; SecretaryGeneral of IFLNS, 81, 120
Salafiyyah movement: origins of, 56
Salvation Army: 68; formation of
(1878), 57
Sanaa Declaration: launch of
(2004), 171
Sand, Ren: role in formation of

293
INDEX
International Council on Social

Welfare, 95
San, Pierre: Director of Amnesty
International, 162
Saraswati, Sami Sivananda: founder
of Divine Life Society, 119
Saudi Arabia: 99; Mecca (Makkah),
99, 149
Save the Children Fund: 96, 127;
aims of, 86; formation of (1919),
86
Save the Children International
Union: 94; creation of (1920), 86;
development of, 95
Schleyer, Johann Martin: creator of
Volapk, 47
Schuster, Arthur: 73
Schwartzbard, Samuel: trial of, 97
Schwimmer, Rosika: co-founder of
Campaign for World Government, 120
Second Balkan War (1913): 72
Second International (18891916):
peace resolution of (1907), 72;
promotion of May 1, 51; role in
formation of global union
federations, 512
Second Italian War of Independence
(1859): Battle of Solferino, 38
Second World War (193945): 6,
1617, 75, 77, 88, 99, 102,
11920, 1224, 1267, 134,
1367, 140, 1756, 1789, 182;
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939),
116; Munich Agreement (1938),
110
Seneca Falls Convention (1848):
589; role in US womens suffrage,
33
Serbia: 172
294
Servicio Paz y Justicia: formation of

(1974), 149
Sverine: 97
Shack/Slum Dwellers International:
Shaarawi, Huda: leader of Egyptian
Feminist Union, 126
Shih-tseng, Lee: co-founder of
World Society, 119
Shintoism: 57
Shotwell, James T.: 1301; cofounder of Commission to Study
the Organization of Peace, 128
Sierra Leone: 63
Sikhism: 56
Sino-International Library: creation
of (1933), 119
Sisterhood is Global Institute
(SIGI): formation of (1984), 147
Smith, Brian: 142
Social Accountability International:
163
socialism: 31, 51, 101, 104, 109, 113,
139, 143
Socialist International: creation of
(1951), 139
Socialist Movement for the United
States of Europe: 136
Sociedad Astronomica de Espana y
America: formation of (1911), 67
societas civilis: concept of, 2
Socit de lUnion des Nations: 29
Socit dEnseignement Universel:
Socit de Gographie: formation of
(1821), 41
Socit Gnrale des Naufrages et
de lUnion des Nations: 32; as
Socit Gnrale des Naufrages
(International Shipwreck
INDEX
Society), 32, 36; creation of

(1835), 32; LInternationale, 32
Socit Internationale de Charit:
34
Socit Internationale des tudes
Pratiques dconomie Sociale: 35
Socit Universelle: 34
Socit Universelle
dOphtalmologie: formation of
(1857), 37
Socit Universelle des Sciences, des
Lettres, des Beaux-Arts, de
lIndustrie et du Commerce:
Society for a League of Religions:
88
Society for Abolishing War:
Society for Arab Unity: formation of
(1931), 126
Society for International Development: formation of (1957), 140
Society for Oriental Researches:
Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge (SPCK): 26; formation of (1698), 22
Society for Promoting Female
Education in the East: establishment of (1834), 41
Society for Raising Asia: formation
of (1880), 55
Society for Research in Asiatic
Music: establishment of (1936),
119
Society for the Improvement of
Prison Discipline: 36; formation
of (1817), 28
Society for the Promotion of
Permanent and Universal Peace:
Society for the Recovery of the

Drowned: aims of, 25; formation
of (1767), 25
Society for the Relief of Free
Negroes: formation of (1775), 26
Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunications
(SWIFT): creation of (1973), 150
Society of Friends of Blacks:
Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress: 26, 37
Society of Friends of Universal
Peace and the Rights of Man: 26
Society of International Studies and
Correspondence (Internationalis
Concordia): 47
Society of the Community of
Believers in Accordance with
Buddhist Principles (Rissho
Kosei-kai): creation of (1938), 119
Society of the Muslim Brothers: see
entry on Muslim Brotherhood
Society of Universal Good-Will: 86;
origins of, 26
Society of Universal Revolution: 26
Sohn, Louis: 130
Soroptimist International of the
Americas: creation of (1921), 99
South Africa: 63, 108, 157; apartheid regime, 2, 151; Johannesburg,
169
South American Athletics federation (CONSUDATLE): establishment of (1918), 79
South American Football Federation (CONMEBOL): formation
of (1916), 79
South Korea: 63
Sovereign Constantinian Order:
201

295
INDEX
Soviet Union (USSR): 1523;

Council of Peoples Commissars,
109; entry into League of Nations
(1934), 116; Famine (19213),
101; Moscow, 89, 100, 135
Spain: 27, 323, 38, 113
Sri Lanka (Ceylon): 63, 108
Standing Committee on the Health
and Welfare of Seamen: creation
of (1927), 94
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: 33
Stettinius, Edward: US Secretary of
State, 131
Stockholm Conference on the
Human Environment: 145, 154
Streit, Clarence: founder of US
Federal Union, 128; Union Now:
A Proposal for a Federal Union of
the Democracies of the North
Atlantic (1939), 120
Student Mobilization Committee to
End the War in Vietnam:
Sturge, Joseph: role in creation of
BFASS, 32
Sudan: 99
Sufi Order in the West: formation of
(1910), 67
Suhrawady, Abdullah: role in
creation of Pan-Islamic Society
(1903), 56
Survival International: 148
Sweden: 59, 113, 150
Switzerland: 27, 36, 44, 59, 113;
Basel, 56, 72; Berne, 58, 82;
Geneva, 14, 25, 39, 53, 58, 80, 86,
100, 1059, 117, 152; Montreux,
113; Vevey, 75; Zimmerwald, 79;
Zurich, 66, 84, 114
Syria: 63, 99100, 108, 126;
Damascus, 126
296
Taft, William: President of LEP, 80

Taoism: 57
temperance movement: 21, 34, 42,
45, 70; influence of, 58, 64, 161
Tenants League: 100
Thailand (Siam): 63; Bangkok, 158
Theosophical Esperantist League: 70
Theosophical Society: 63; establishment of (1875), 57
Third Reich (193345): 113,
11516, 122, 134; economic
policies of, 111; Gestapo, 118;
persecution of Jews during, 118;
use made of INGOs, 114
Third World Network: 153;
Tobin, James: proposal for tax on
spot conversions of currencies
(1972), 157
trade unions: nationalization of, 39
Transjordan: 99
transnational corporations (TNCs):
150, 1534; growth of, 149;
INGO targeting of, 151
transnational religious orders
(RINGOs): 578, 119, 177;
concept of, 201; examples of, 21;
missionary, 22, 26, 41; Protestant,
212; Roman Catholic, 212;
Quaker, 67
transnational social movement
organizations (TSMOs): 162;
locations of, 1634
Transparency International: 156
Trinidad and Tobago: 60
Truman, Harry S.: 133
Truman Doctrine: 133
von Tschammer und Osten, Hans:
Reichssportfhrer, 114
Tunisia: 108; Revolution (201011),
171
INDEX
turbocapitalism: development of, 11

Turkey: 25, 32, 63, 100, 108;
government of, 71
Tyrell, Ian: 889
UK National Archives: 13
Ukraine: pogroms in, 97
UN Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC): 14, 131, 135, 143;
Charter of, 3
UN Economic Commission for
Africa: formation of, 136
UN Human Rights Commission:
143
Unin Femenina Ibero-Americana:
Union Internationale des Villes:
formation of, 66
Union of Arab Pharmacists:
Union of International Associations
(UIA): 4, 1415, 19, 74, 76, 138,
155, 177; aims of, 71; Annuaire de
la Vie Internationale: 15, 70, 75,
160; Yearbook of International
Organizations, 6, 15, 70; origins
of, 71; personnel of, 75
Union of Nationalities (UON):
Annales des Nationalitis: 745;
collapse of, 75; formerly Central
Office of Nationalities, 74; Third
International Congress of
Nationalities (1916), 75
Union of Utrecht: formation of
(1889), 57
Union of War Veterans: 100
Unitarians: 28
United Europe Movement: formation of (1947), 136
United Kingdom (UK): 2930,
334, 41, 5960, 66, 71, 109, 120,
142, 147, 150; colonies of, 33, 41;

government of, 126; Leeds, 83;
London, 4, 14, 22, 269, 31, 345,
412, 502, 556, 5960, 69, 80,
88, 104, 107, 116, 125; Norwich,
26; Oxford, 14; Parliament, 30,
39; Treasury, 129
United Nations (UN): 3, 14, 17, 93,
105, 137, 14950, 160, 166, 175,
178, 180; Charter of, 123, 1302,
137; Childrens Emergency Fund
(UNICEF), 150; Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide (1948),
137; Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women (1967), 146; Employment
(Discrimination) Convention
(1958), 138; Environment
Programme, 145; Equal Remuneration Convention (1951), 138;
General Assembly, 146; Offices,
14; San Francisco Conference
(1945), 1302; Security Council,
168; Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) (1948),
1378
United States of America (USA):
27, 2930, 34, 36, 38, 41, 49, 53,
5860, 62, 78, 1089, 112, 127,
146, 150, 161, 1656, 172; 9/11
Attacks, 164; Atlantic City, 84;
Chicago, 128; Civil War (1861
5), 39, 143; Congress, 129;
Constitution of, 889; government of, 55, 71, 143, 158, 167;
Hawaii, 108; Honolulu, 103;
military of, 127; New York, 28, 57,
87, 95, 128, 131; Philadelphia,
256; prohibition in, 8890;
Revolution, 25, 175; State

297
INDEX
Department, 130; Treasury

Department, 129; Washington
DC, 58, 68, 85, 162
United Women of the Americas:
United World Federalists: 140
Universal Alliance of Women for
Peace by Education (International
League of Women for General
Disarmament): creation of (1896),
61
Universal Association of
Volapkists: formation of (1887),
47
Universal Confederation of the
Friends of Truth (Cercle Social):
affiliates of, 256; Society of
Women Friends of Truth, 26
Universal Negro Improvement and
Conservation Association and
African Communities League
(UNIA): establishment of (1914),
78; members of, 78
Universal Peace Congresses (1889):
34, 61
Universal Scientific Alliance: 78;
Diplme Circulaire, 47; formation
of (1876), 47
Universal Society of the Friends of
the People: formation of (1792),
26
Universal Society of the White
Cross: formation of (1907), 66
Universala Esperanto-Asocio
(Universal Esperanto Association): 47, 70
Universities Committee on PostWar International Problems:
University of London: First
International Eugenics Congress
298
(1912), 74; Universal Races

Congress (1911), 74
University of Sussex: Institute of
Development Studies, 142
Unrepresented Peoples and Nations
Organization: establishment of
(1991), 157
Uruguay: 63, 108, 119
US Federal Union: founding of
(1940), 128
US League of Nations Association:
members of, 128
Vincent de Paul, St.: charitable
organisations founded by, 212
Vienna Exposition (1873): 46
Vienna World Conference on
Human Rights (1993): 155
Vietnam: Saigon, 47
Vietnam War (195575): 141;
escalation of, 143; peace activism
during, 144
Viner, Jacob: 130
Vishva Hindu Parishad: formation
of (1964), 149
Vivekananda, Swami: speaker at
World Parliament of Religions, 57
War on Want: Baby Killer, The
(1974), 150; formation of (1951),
140; influence of, 142
Weimar Republic (191933): 111,
122
Wendte, Charles: First Secretary of
International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious
Thinkers and Workers, 57
West India Committee: 27
Western Roman Empire: Sack of
Rome (410), 22
White, Lyman Cromwell: 4, 78, 110
INDEX
White Cross Army: branches of, 60;

Wilkinson, Ellen: 115
Willetts, Peter: 133
Williams, Douglas: 93, 131
Williams, Henry Sylvester: founder
of African Association, 55
Williams, Jody: organizer of
International Campaign to Ban
Landmines, 155, 160
Wilson, Woodrow: 75, 81
Wittner, Lawrence: 1434
women: 834; enfranchisement of,
7, 45, 58, 60, 63, 90, 97, 177;
female genital mutilation (FGM),
98; footbinding, 59; sex trafficking, 5960
Women Living Under Muslim
Laws: formation of (1984), 1467
Womens Indian Association of
Madras: personnel of, 107
Womens International Democratic
Federation (WIDF): 1345
Womens International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF): 84,
98, 1045
Womens Publicity Planning
Association: 124
Womens World Committee against
War and Fascism: 115
Woolf, Leonard: 81
Workers International Centre of
Latin American Solidarity:
Workers International Relief: 100
World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS): emergence of,
155
World Alliance for Promoting
International Friendship Through
the Churches: founding of (1914),

80
World Alliance of Reformed
Churches: formation of (1875), 57
World Alliance of Young Mens
Christian Associations
(WYCMA): 14, 16, 378, 180;
formation of (1855), 356, 43
World Assembly of Youth: 134
World Association of Lebanese
Neurosurgeons: 161
World Bank: 17, 155, 164; formation of (1944), 129; funding
provided by, 156
World Bank-Civil Society Forum:
1678
World Committee Against War and
Fascism: 117; origins of, 115
World Committee for the Relief of
the Victims of German Fascism:
Brown Book of the Hitler Terror,
The, 11516
World Confederation of Labour:
role in formation of ITUC, 170
World Congress of Doctors (1954):
creation of International Medical
Association, 135
World Congress of Faiths: creation
of (1936), 120
World Congress of International
Associations (1913): 74; attendees
of, 71
World Council of Churches: 140;
establishment of (1948), 120, 139
World Dental Federation: establishment of (1900), 50
World Disarmament Conference
(19324): 16, 1079, 121, 132;
collapse of, 116, 120; Disarmament Committees, 1089

299
INDEX
World Economic Forum: 159;

development of, 150
World Federation: creation of
(1941), 128
World Federation of Democratic
Youth (WFDY): 134; demotion
of consultative status, 135
World Federation of Trade Unions:
163, 170
World Federation of United Nations
Associations: establishment of
(1946), 140
World Federation of Scientific
Workers (WFSW): 134
World Federation of Teachers
Associations (FISG): 134
World Federation of Trade Unions
(WFTU): 176; members of, 133;
secession of ICFTU (1949), 133;
successor to IFTU, 132
World Fellowship of Buddhists:
World Government Association:
128
World Health Organization
(WHO): 150; Code of Marketing
for Breast Milk Substitutes, 151;
World Health Assembly, 151
World Jewish Congress: 116
World Jewish Relief: formation of
(1933), 118
World League Against Alcoholism:
launch of (1919), 88
World League for Protection of
Animals: formation of (1898), 49
World Medical Association:
World Methodist Council: formation of (1881), 57
World Muslim Congress: branches
300
of, 99; formation of (1926), 99;

Jerusalem Congress (1931), 137
World Parliament of Religions:
convening of (1903), 56; speakers
at, 57
World Peace Council (WPC):
creation of (1949), 135; International Economic Conference
(1952), 135
World Potato Congress: 161
World Rainforest Movement:
World Road Association: creation of
(1910), 66
World Social Forum (WSF): 156,
15960; development of, 1667
World Society: 119
World Student Christian Federation: formation of (1895), 57
World Students Committee against
War and Fascism: 115
World Summit on Sustainable
Development (2002): 169
World Temperance Convention
(1846): 34, 42
World Trade Organization (WTO):
Battle of Seattle (1999), 156
World Trade Union Conference
(1945): 131
World Union of Free Thinkers:
World Union of Women for
International Concord: establishment of (1915), 80
World Veterans Federation: creation
of (1950), 139
World Vision: formation of (1950),
140
World Wide Fund for Nature:
INDEX
World Wide Vincentian Family:

members of, 212
World Zionist Organization:
development of, 64; formation of
(1897), 56
Worlds Alliance of Young Womens
Christian Associations: 107;
Worlds Fair (1889): organisations
formed during, 51, 53
Worlds Temperance Convention
(1846): 58
Worlds Womans Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU):
branches of, 58, 63; Department
of Peace and Arbitration, 60;
formation of (1883), 58; personnel
of, 58
Worms, Rne: 73
al-Yaziji, Ibrahim: 56
Yemen: Aden, 99
Young Communist International:
100
Young Europe: 434, 734; creation

of, 301; structure of, 37
Young Mens Christian Associations
(YMCAs): 44; formation of
(1844), 35
Young Mens Muslim Association:
Young Womens Christian Associations (YWCAs): 95, 98
Zamenhof, Lejzer Ludwik: creator
of Esperanto, 47
Zimmern, Alfred: 106
Zimmerwald Left: establishment of
(1915), 79; influence of, 80;
members of, 79
Zinoviev, Grigory: 79; speech at
First Congress of Comintern
(1919), 89
Zionism: 56
Zonta International: aims of, 88
Zoroastrianism: 57

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NGOs

The more than 20,000 international non-governmental organizations

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

of INGOs has developed in a cyclical pattern; and (v) providing an

Transnational Civil Society and International Non-Governmental

which extend far further. INGOs are overwhelmingly considered to be

The Long History of Transnational Civil Society

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

forces in international politics or largely a product of twentieth-century

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

The Dimensions of Transnational Civil Societys Evolution

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

bined measure of cosmopolitan values such as tolerance, concern for

Explaining the Evolution of Transnational Civil Society

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

be equally effective in hindering it: information and communications

New technologies (e.g. telephone, steamship,

Emergence of transnational environmental issues

Demographic changes (e.g. urbanization)

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

such as the apparent emergence of a common consciousness of human

work on cycles of contention in domestic social movements, Tarrow has

Historical Sources on Transnational Civil Society

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

sentatives of its own to observe and report on numerous transnational

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Early History to 1767

Illustrative INGO, with year of foundation

Roman Catholice.g. Order of St John, 1099

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

operation on a cross-border basis of groups of performing artists such as

The Emergence of Modern INGOs, 17671869

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Table 3: Illustrative table of selected INGOs founded 17601855

Illustrative INGO, with year of foundation

Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

and Utrecht.34 In 1791 the Cercle established an offshoot composed

By the end of the eighteenth century, associational activities in Europe

In the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the diversification of

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

natural system of united property; which united property is to be created

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

the wounded in the Battle of Solferino of 1859, Dunant pioneered the

and Bakunin were particularly important in the First Internationals

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Most of the developments considered so far in the period from the

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

The transformation of transnational civil societythe transition from

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Consolidation of the First Wave, 18701900

exploring in turn standardization, industrial and intellectual property,

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

foreshadowed the work of the International Labour Organization in its

ing case study of the cyclicality of internationalism. The artificial language

NGOs: A NEW HISTORY OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Japan that was created in Yokohama in 1872 by British and American