The history of internationalism and international institutions such as the League of Nations and the United Nations is a rapidly evolving field, as a new generation of historians advances through the breaches in older historiographies lately fashioned by Susan Pedersen, Mark Mazower, Patricia Clavin, Erez Manela and other proponents of the 'new international history'. At the centre of this new scholarship is a re-examination of the role of the League and the UN in shaping global orders across the twentieth century. This edited volume brings together these two institutions in order to trace the continuities and changes between the two bodies.

Foreword: From the League of Nations to the United Nations, Susan Pedersen Introduction: Rocking on its Hinges? The League of Nations, the United Nations and the New History of Internationalism in the Twentieth Century, Simon Jackson and Alanna O'Malley 1: 'He Tampers with the Source of Life itself who Tampers with Freedom': Personhood, the State, and the International Community in the Thought of Charles Malik, Andrew Arsan 2: From the Tigris to the Amazon: Peripheral Expertise, Impossible Cooperation and Economic Multilateralism at the League of Nations, 1920-1946, José Antonio Sánchez Román 3: Pan-American Exceptionalism: Regional International Law as a Challenge to International Institutions, Mats Ingulstad and Lucas Lixinski 4: Jewish Memory and the Human Right to Petition, 1933-1953, Nathan A. Kurz 5: The 1971 East Pakistan Crisis and the Origins of the UN's Engagement with Humanitarian Aid, Florian Hannig 6: "Women's point of view was apt to be forgotten": The Liaison Committee of International Women's Organizations' Campaign for an International Women's Convention, 1920-1953, Nova Robinson 7: The League of Nations and the Transformation of Representation: Sectarianism, Consociationalism, and the Middle East, Sarah Shields 8: Reimagining the Postwar International Order: The World Federalism of Ozaki Yukio and Kagawa Toyohiko, Konrad M. Lawson 9: Internationalism and Empire: The Question of Native Labour in the Portuguese Empire (1929­-1962), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro Epilogue, Ryan Irwin