Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Pasi Ihalainen, Antero Holmila (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-063-9 (ISBN)

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It is commonplace that the modern world is more international than at any point in human history. Yet the sheer profusion of terms for describing politics beyond the nation state—including “international,” “European,” “global,” “transnational” and “cosmopolitan,” among others – is but one indication of how conceptually complex this field actually is. Taking a wide view of internationalism(s) in Europe since the eighteenth century, Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined explores discourses and practices to challenge nation-centered histories and trace the entanglements that arise from international cooperation. A multidisciplinary group of scholars in history, discourse studies and digital humanities asks how internationalism has been experienced, understood, constructed, debated and redefined across different European political cultures as well as related to the wider world.

Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History and Academy of Finland Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, concentrating especially on the history of political and social discourse in the long term from comparative and transnational perspectives. His books include Agents of the People: Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in British and Swedish Parliamentary and Public Debates, 1734–1800 (2010), Parliament and Parliamentarism: Comparative History of a European Concept (2016, with Cornelia Ilie and Kari Palonen) and The Springs of Democracy: National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917–1919 (2017).

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List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Debating Internationalisms: Contexts, Concepts and Historiography

Anter Holmila and Pasi Ihalainen

Chapter 1. Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism in the Intellectual Culture of the Enlightenment

Charlotta Wolff

Chapter 2. Revolution Beyond Borders: The Universal and Cosmopolitan in the French Revolution, 1789–1815

Friedemann Pestel and Pasi Ihalainen

Chapter 3. International: From Legal to Civic Discourse and Beyond in the Nineteenth Century

Jani Marjanen and Ruben Ros

This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license thanks to the support of University of Helsinki. Not for resale.

Chapter 4. Internationalism in Socialist Conceptualizations of Politics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Pauli Kettunen

Chapter 5. Progress, Nation and Greatness in Constructing the Idea of Feminist Internationalism

Tiina Kinnunen

Chapter 6. Non-socialist Internationalisms before and after the First World War

Pasi Ihalainen and Jörn Leonhard

Chapter 7. Securing Peace by Trade? The ‘World Economy’ and International Organization

Hagen Schulz-Forberg

Chapter 8. Ecumene Redefined: Concepts of Religious (Inter)national Unity in British, Dutch and Swedish Parliamentary Debates, 1880–2020

Joris vanEijnatten and Pasi Ihalainen

Chapter 9. ‘Olympism is Real Internationalism’: Conceptualizations of Internationalism(s) in the Olympic Movement from the 1890s to the 1990s

Antero Holmila

Chapter 10. European Unity and the Nation State

Mats Andrén and Joris van Eijnatten

Chapter 11. Universalism in Emergency Aid before and after 1970: Ambivalences and Contradictions

Norbert Götz and Irène Herrmann

This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of Södertörn University. Not for resale.

Chapter 12. Defining ‘the Third Way’: Oppositional Internationalisms of Finnish, Swedish and West German Student and New Left Movements in the Sixties

Juho Saksholm

Chapter 13. ‘The Vision of Undivided, Habitable World’: International Climate Policies in German, British and European Parliamentary Debates on Conceptions of Justice, 1992–2019

Miina Kaarkoski

Chapter 14. Dynamics of the International and National in Finnish and Hungarian Higher Education 1990–2020

Viktória Ferenc, Taina Saarinen and Petteri Laihonen

Conclusion: Long-term Patterns in the Vocabulary of Internationalisms

Antero Holmila and Pasi Ihalainen

Afterword

Glenda Sluga

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	European Conceptual History
Zusatzinfo	4 Figures; 4 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-83695-063-2 / 1836950632
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-063-9 / 9781836950639
Zustand	Neuware