Journal of Global History http://journals.cambridge.org/JGH Additional services for Journal of Global History: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order. Daniel Laqua Journal of Global History / Volume 6 / Issue 02 / July 2011, pp 223 - 247 DOI: 10.1017/S1740022811000246, Published online: 13 June 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1740022811000246 How to cite this article: Daniel Laqua (2011). Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order. Journal of Global History, 6, pp 223-247 doi:10.1017/S1740022811000246 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/JGH, IP address: 139.86.13.152 on 14 Mar 2015 Journal of Global History (2011) 6, pp. 223–247 ª London School of Economics and Political Science 2011 doi:10.1017/S1740022811000246 Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order* Daniel Laqua School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international understanding through the promotion of educational, scientific, and cultural exchange. Whereas previous studies have revealed the institutional and diplomatic processes that shaped these bodies, the present article considers their intellectual genealogies and trajectories. Adopting a trans- national perspective, it argues that the multi-layered quest for order is central to understand- ing intellectual cooperation in the interwar years.