{"id":51702,"date":"2026-03-03T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51702"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:14:41","slug":"andrew-ehrhardt-creating-the-united-nations-an-international-history-of-a-world-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51702","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Ehrhardt, \u201eCreating the United Nations: An International History of a World Organization\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>80 years on from the creation of the United Nations during WWII, this book offers the first international history of its establishment. <\/strong>Often thought as the brainchild of the United States, Andrew Erhardt shows that it was instead the result of international collaboration between a number of nation states, non-government organizations and individuals determined to build a world organization that might keep the peace in a war-torn world.<br><br>As scholars, analysts and leading statesmen question whether the UN, and international organizations more broadly, remain fit for purpose in our 21st century world, <em>Creating the United Nations<\/em> takes us back to the beginning, to understand its original purpose, genesis and ultimate design. Only with this historical understanding \u2013 one that shines light on the central as well as the forgotten voices \u2013 can we begin to discuss how the United Nations might be reformed, to assess whether new forms of regional and international organisation are needed to address recurrent and new challenges, and to examine how such systems might be brought into existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction: A Global History of the Creation of a Global Institution<br>1. The Development of Internationalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries<br>2. The Experience of the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s<br>3. Early Activism and Planning for a Post-war Organisation during WWII, 1937-40<br>4. The St James&#8217; Declaration, the Atlantic Charter, and the United Nations Declaration, 1941<br>5. Ongoing International Activism and Official Planning for a Post-war Organisation, 1941-44<br>6. Different Perspectives of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944-45<br>7. A Meeting of Great and Small: The San Francisco Conference, April-June 1945<br>8. Early Challenges of a Universal Organization, 1946 -1948<br>Conclusion: The Legacy of the United Nations and its Future in an Age of International Transition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-order. Available Nov 12 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Product details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published Nov 12 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format Ebook (PDF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edition 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extent 256<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 9781350521599<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imprint Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series New Approaches to International History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/creating-the-united-nations-9781350521599\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/creating-the-united-nations-9781350521599<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UN.jpg?fit=540%2C810&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55441,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55441","url_meta":{"origin":51702,"position":0},"title":"Me\u0111unarodna konferencija &#8220;Reproductive Politics in the Atlantic Space: Advances (and Reversals) from the Postwar Period to the Present&#8221; u Ljubljani","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. rujna 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"On September 24th and 25th, the INZ welcomes you to the conference Reproductive politics in the Atlantic space: advances (and reversals) from the postwar period to the present. 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