Plowshares Into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations Ekbladh David
Plowshares Into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations Ekbladh David An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American…
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Plowshares Into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations Ekbladh David
An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an international society of institutions and individuals committed to liberal international order and given focus by the League of Nations in Geneva. In doing so, Ekbladh reframes the conventional understanding of the United States' postwar hegemony, showing that important elements of it were heavily based on ideas that emerged from these debates. That information and analysis transformed critical debates in a world in crisis.
The League's work was part of a larger transnational movement that included the United States and which saw the emergence of concepts like national income, gross domestic