Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: past as prelude, multilateralism as a tactic and strategy -- Notes -- I: Planning and propaganda -- 1. Prewar and wartime postwar planning: antecedents to the UN moment in San Francisco, 1945 -- The antecedents of international organization -- An embryonic association, 1937-43 -- Conclusion: looking back to look forward -- Notes -- 2. The UN and public diplomacy: communicating the post-national message -- Origins: the wartime UNIO -- The role of the DPI in the postwar world: a contested space -- The MDGs: redefining the DPI -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Educators across borders: the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education, 1942-45 -- Convening the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education -- The work of the CAME commissions -- The early postwar years and the United Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- II: Human security -- 4. Building on the 1943-48 United Nations War Crimes Commission -- Legal and political amnesia -- Chinese and Indian leadership -- A global system of complementary justice -- The development of key international legal principles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. UNRRA's operational genius and institutional design -- UNRRA, an overview -- Logistical genius -- Other key factors -- UNRRA's temporary status -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism -- Indian internationalism and the idea of One World -- Relief and rehabilitation during World War II -- The end of UNRRA and the birth of a new internationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- III: Economic development -- 7. The United Nations and development: from the origins to current challenges.

Wartime planning for postwar economic and social cooperation -- The road to San Francisco -- Lessons for the evolution of the UN development "system" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Financing gaps, competitiveness, and capabilities: why Bretton Woods needs a radical rethink -- An unsustainable system? -- The beginnings of the IMS -- Main debates at war's end -- The agency of developing countries -- The need for a Bretton Woods 3? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Stable agricultural markets and world orde: FAO and ITO, 1943-49 -- The nutrition approach to surplus and shortage -- Increased consumption, food production, and market expansion: the Hot Springs conference -- Postwar shortages and the FAO's plan for the World Food Board -- Commodity policy in the ITO -- The FAO's International Commodity Clearing House -- The end of the ITO and the future of commodity agreements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. Conclusion: past as prelude, whither the United Nations? -- Multilateral cooperation, realism not idealism -- The wide relevance of multilateralism -- Historical grounding for today's global governance -- Adjusting theory -- Future research -- Is good-enough global governance good enough? -- Notes -- Index -- Routledge Global Institutions Series.

By contrasting imaginative innovations in thinking and institutional design as well as actual multinational achievements of World War Two with present practice the book suggests future actions that could benefit from the historical experience of wartime cooperation.

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