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2026-07-31 16:11 UTC
«The making of international organisations, then, was not insulated from imperial expansion, multinational business interests or great-power competition. On the contrary, many of the organisations we today praise as great but tragically ailing bulwarks against power politics have historically been the latter’s fellow travellers. Their claim to neutrality did not restrain power; it normalised it, and it often did so by fiat. International organisations invented a technocratic international that was not unlike a gated community: sheltered from its own conditions of existence.»
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@fgraver@hcommons.social 2026-07-31 16:16
«By the early 20th century, devising technical-scientific answers to complex political problems had become a standard feature of international politics. What theorists and advocates of European integration, most famously David Mitrany, later conceptualised as ‘functionalism’ – cooperation over technical rather than ideological common ground – has been a remarkably persistent feature and, not least, served as the founding rationale of the EU.»