INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat – University of Copenhagen

INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat

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INNER_LEAGUE offers a social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat.

We investigate its inner life to understand how it shaped the professional lives of the ca. 4,000 employees and shaped the bureaucratic infrastructures of multilateralism it serviced.

Funding

Project period: 1. juli 2025-30. juni 2030

PI: Haakon A. Ikonomou

Events

1 Dec. - 2 Dec. 2025

The Global History of the Establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1919 to 1922

This seminar will discuss the draft book chapters of a new monograph on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).
3 Dec. 2025, 15:00-17:30

The History of European Union Law: Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993

Book launch, seminar and debate.
8 Dec. - 9 Dec. 2025

Spatial Imaginations of Europe, 1870s-2020s: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law

Conference organized by CEMES, INNER_LEAGUE and CHIOS.
10 Dec. 2025, 9:00-13:00

Advisory Board Meeting

INNER_LEAGUE - Advisory board meeting.
27 Jan. 2026, 13:00-20:00

Multilateralism: A global view

The State of Multilateralism Roundtable.

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Research blog

Clinging to the past? Let’s overcome the fear of the digital

Blog post by Jonas Tilsted.

“A Feeling of Melancholy Resignation”: The League Visits the Nordic Countries in 1936

Blog post by Emil Eiby Seidenfaden.

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