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

News

International Administrative Elites. Methodological Reflections on Agency, Sociability and Power

2026.06.04

On Thursday, 18 June 2026, project PI Haakon A. Ikonomou will be a keynote speaker at the Summer School on Elites, Power and Inequalities, University of Lausanne, 14 – 19 June 2026. The keynote is titled: ”International…
Internship at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

2025.12.22

The ERC Research Project INNER_LEAGUE at the Saxo-Institute is looking for an MA-student in history at the Saxo-Institute to apply for internships at the UN Library & Archives Geneva in the fall semester 2026.

Events

15 June 2026, 13:00-15:00

Women international civil servants and their contribution to international thought – 1920-1975

Public lecture by postdoc Myriam Piguet, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History.

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Research blog

INNER_LEAGUE Interview with the Editors of The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law

Interview with Haakon A. Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen, and Morten Rasmussen.

Old Guard, New World: Paul Barandon, Germany and the Fate of the League of Nations

Blog post by Sandra Ricker.

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