Eric Drummond and His Legacies: The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance

ISBN-13: 9783030047313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 361 str.

David Macfadyen; John Burley; Marilyn Norah Carr

Recenzje

"The book, as such, will be of interest to academics, international civil servants, diplomats and practitioners alike. ... Eric Drummond and His Legacies provides a much-needed historical and biographical perspective on actors responsible for building multilateral organisations." (Jan Lüdert, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, September 4, 2019)

Spis treści

Text boxes

Charts and tables

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Key political figures in Drummond’s career

Prologue – Towards a Better world

Part I – A Great International Civil Servant

1.   The life and character of Eric Drummond 1876–1951

2.   Leadership

3.   After Geneva

Part II – Creating an Enduring International Civil Service

4.   An International Secretariat appears on the World Stage

5.   The International Secretariat and its ethos

6.   La Haute Direction, impartial and partial officials

7.   The Directors and the work of their sections

8.   Drummond’s commitment to universality

Part III – Legacies of the League

9.   Transition to the new international order

10.  The structural and practical legacy of an International Civil Service

11.  Humanitarian and political legacies

12.  Social, economic and technical legacies 

13.  Internationalism restored, starting anew

Epilogue – A centennial assessment of the ‘Great Experiment’

Annex 1  Sir Eric Drummond’s family tree

Annex 2  Milestones in the life and career of James Eric Drummond

Annex 3  World Events and the League of Nations time line 1914–46

Annex 4  Members and Specialists working for the Secretariat mentioned in the Chapters

Bibliography and list of sources

Index

O autorze

David Macfadyen is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK, and has worked at a senior level in the World Health Organization (WHO). His research interests include the History of Medicine, which he has studied at the University of Glasgow, UK.

 

Michael Davies is a former staff member of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the author of International Organizations: A Companion and The Administration of International Organizations.

Marilyn Carr has worked for the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the UN Development Fund for Women. She studied Development Economics at the University of Sussex, UK, and is the author of many books and articles on science, technology and women’s economic empowerment.

John Burley was an economic adviser to the Government of Uganda before working for the UN, including the UN Development Programme (UNDP). He was a Director at the UN Conference for Trade and Development and has contributed to a number of published studies of the UN system.

Blurb

"This well-researched book does justice finally to a forgotten pioneer of international cooperation. It explores Drummond’s legacy—an international civil service with integrity, intelligence, independence, and impartiality—which remains more aspiration than reality. Discover why that vision remains pertinent."

—Thomas G. Weiss, City University of New York, USA

"Part biography, part institutional history, this is a fitting tribute to the spirit of internationalism on the eve of the League’s centenary. The ethos of an impartial yet committed international civil service permeates the book -- and it is published when that ethos is needed more than ever."

—Christian J. Tams, University of Glasgow, UK

This book provides a new assessment of Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations. Part 1 describes his character and leadership. His influence in shaping the International Civil Service is the subject of Part 2. Part 3 shows the large-scale absorption of League programmes, practices and staff into the UN and its Specialized Agencies.

David Macfadyen is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK, and has worked at a senior level in the World Health Organization (WHO). His research interests include the History of Medicine, which he has studied at the University of Glasgow, UK.

 

Michael Davies is a former staff member of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the author of International Organizations: A Companion and The Administration of International Organizations.

Marilyn Carr has worked for the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the UN Development Fund for Women. She studied Development Economics at the University of Sussex, UK, and is the author of many books and articles on science, technology and women’s economic empowerment.

John Burley was an economic adviser to the Government of Uganda before working for the UN, including the UN Development Programme (UNDP). He was a Director at the UN Conference for Trade and Development and has contributed to a number of published studies of the UN system.