International Organizations and Decolonization in Historical Perspective
Universities of Basel, Munich and Heidelberg
25.01.2019-26.01.2019, Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Deadline: 15.06.2018
An International Symposium sponsored by the International Research Award
in Global History, Universities of Basel, Munich and Heidelberg
Keynote Speaker: Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)
Membership in the United Nations has almost quadrupled since its
founding in 1945, with the vast majority of new states admitted over
this period resulting from the collapse of European imperial regimes.
The process of decolonization and the expansion of international
organizations are among the most momentous developments in modern global
history, yet their impact on one another has more often been posited
than examined. The symposium asks what roles international organizations
– both inter-governmental and non-governmental – have played in the
process of decolonization and how the dissolution of European empires
has in turn affected the development of international organizations. It
questions the… read more