Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands (The History and Theory of International Law)

Over the last two decades, the "new international order" of 1919 has grown into an expansive new area of research across multiple disciplines. With the League of Nations at its heart, the interwar settlement's innovations in international organizations, international law, and many other areas shaped the world we know today. This book presents the first study of the relationship between this new international order and the new regional order in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Habsburg empire. An analysis of the co-implication of these two orders is grounded in four key scholarly interventions: understanding the legacies of empire in international organizations; examining regionalism in the work of interwar international institutions; creating an integrated history of the interwar order in Europe; and testing recent claims of the conceptual connection between nationalism and internationalism. With chapters covering international health, international financial oversight, human trafficking, minority rights, scientific networks, technical expertise, passports, commercial treaties, borders and citizenship, and international policing, this book pioneers a regional approach to international order, and explores the origins of today's global governance in the wake of imperial collapse. Cover Series Remaking Central Europe Copyright Table of Contents Editors’ Biographies List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Central Europe and the New International Order 1. Habsburg Histories of Internationalism 2. Clemens Pirquet: Early Twentieth-​Century Scientific Networks, the Austrian Hunger Crisis, and the Making of the International Food Expert 3. Reinventing International Health in East Central Europe: The League of Nations, State Sovereignty, and Universal Health 4. Polycentric International Participation after the First World War: Experts from East Central Europe in and around the League of Nation’s Secretariat 5. Austria, the League of Nations, and the Birth of Multilateral Financial Control 6. Hungary and the League of Nations: A Forced Marriage 7. On the Fraught Internationalism of Intellectuals: Alfons Dopsch, Austria, and the League’s Intellectual Cooperation Programme 8. Remaking Mobility: International Conferences and the Emergence of the Modern Passport System 9. International Commerce in the Wake of Empire: Central European Economic Integration between National and Imperial Sovereignty 10. Fighting the Scourge of International Crime: The Internationalization of Policing and Criminal Law in Interwar Europe 11. Nation, Internationalism, and the Policies against Trafficking in Girls and Women after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire 12. The League of Nations and the Optants’ Dispute in the Hungarian Borderlands: Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia 13. Non-​Territorial National Autonomy in Interwar European Minority Protection and Its Habsburg Legacies 14. Beyond the League of Nations: Public Debates on International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period An Epilogue to the Making and Unmaking of Central Europe and Global Order Index Over the last two decades, the 'new international order' of 1919 has grown into an expansive new area of research across multiple disciplines. With the League of Nations at its heart, the interwar settlement's innovations in international organizations, international law, and many other areas shaped the world we know today. This book presents a study of the relationship between this new international order and the new regional order in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Habsburg empire A pioneering regional approach to the study of international order in Central Europe following the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, and the subsequent creation of the League of Nations.