Table of Contents

Introduction, Michele Di Donato (University of Pisa, Italy) and Mathieu Fulla (The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France)
Part I: Reinventing Left-Wing Internationalisms in a Changing World
1. Transnational Socialism Entering a Nation-State: From Ottoman to Greek Socialism (1912-1922), Kostis Karpozilos (ASKI Athens, Greece)
2. A Transatlantic Connector: Bjarne Braatøy in the Intersections of Intelligence and Social Democracy 1923-1957, Nik. Brandal (Björknes University College, Norway) and Eirik Wig Sundvall (University of Agder, Norway)
3. Social Democracy and Anti-Communism in Cold War Asia: The Japan Socialist Party’s Role in the Asian Socialist Conference in the 1950s, Yutaka Kanda (Niigata University, Japan)
4. Italian Communism and the ‘Rediscovery’ of the Third World (1956-1964), Silvio Pons (Scuola Normale Superiore-Fondazione Gramsci, Italy)
5. Proletarian Internationalism and Third World Liberation in the Life and Politics of South African Communist Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo, Arianna Lissoni (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
6. A Discreet Alternative: The Socialist International’s Ill-Fated Battle for “Global Keynesianism” and a New International Economic Order in the 1980s, Mathieu Fulla (The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France)
Part II: When Internationalisms Meet: Conflicts and Cross-Fertilisations
7. “This is the True International of which Moscow Only Dreams”. Contacts, Hybridisations and Ambiguities in the Encounter Between Socialist and Liberal Internationalism at the ILO in the 1920s, Adeline Blaszkiewicz (Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne University, France)
8. The Eastern Bloc Countries and the Development Question at the United Nations in the 1960s and 1970s, Michel Christian (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
9. Sandinista Internationalism: the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Global Cold War, Mateo Jarquín (Chapman University, USA)
10. The Socialist International and Human Rights, Michele Di Donato (University of Pisa, Italy)
11. Solidarity Struggles: Transnational Feminisms and Cold War Lefts in the Global South, Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University, USA)
Part III: Grassroots Internationalisms, Informal Networks and New Mobilisations
12. The Left and the International Arena: The Rosenberg Case, Phillip Deery (Victoria University, Australia)
13. The Networks of Left-Wing Town Planning in Mediterranean Europe (1960s-early 1980s), Céline Vaz (UPHF, France)
14. An “Ecological Internationale?” Nuclear Energy Opponents in Western Europe (1975-1980), Andrew S. Tompkins (University of Sheffield, UK)
15. Analysing Informal and Indirect Participation to Transnational Activist Networks: The Case of Antiauthoritarian Feminists in Berlin and Montreal, Emeline Fourment (The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France)

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A collection exploring the history of left-wing internationalism throughout the 20th century from a global and transnational perspective.

About the Author

Michele Di Donato is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research and publications focus on the international history of the European Left, the Cold War and late 20th-century globalization.

Mathieu Fulla is a faculty member at the Center for History at The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France. He is the co-editor of European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2020) and his main research area is the history of the West European Labour Movement.