Organised by the ERC Advanced Grant project “Hidden Legacies: How Discontinued International Organizations Have Shaped European Governance since the 1910s (InechO)” together with the Alcide de Gasperi Research Centre, this conference will explore how discontinued organizations have shaped European and global governance long after their formal demise.
What happens when international organizations die? More than one-third of the roughly 500 international organizations created since 1900 no longer exist, yet their influence endures.
Spanning the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, the contributors will examine organizations across the ideological spectrum, from the League of Nations and the European Coal and Steel Community to lesser-known bodies such as the Sugar Union or the International Refugee Organization. Challenging the liberal bias in internationalism research, they will explore fascist, state socialist, and liberal-democratic variants alike, revealing unexpected moments where ideological boundaries blur.
Using interdisciplinary approaches, the panelists will show how the legacies of defunct institutions left lasting impressions on successor institutions and governance structures and have secretly shaped the Europe we know today.
Scientific Committee
Kiran Klaus Patel, LMU Munich
Matthias Kaltenbrunner, LMU Munich
Jane Mumby, LMU Munich
Thomas Süsler-Rohringer, LMU Munich
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, EUI
Dieter Schlenker, EUI
Flavia Canestrini, EUI