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SUMMARY:&quot\;Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minor
 ity Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom&qu
 ot\; - Molly Cochran (Reader\, Oxford Brookes University)
DTSTART:20181115T130000Z
DTEND:20181115T143000Z
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CONTACT:Maja Spanu
DESCRIPTION:The larger research project and monograph of which this paper 
 is a part traces advocacy conducted by the Women's International League fo
 r Peace and Freedom [WILPF] at the League of Nations from 1919-1937 and de
 velops a conceptual framework\, 'international publics'\, as a means to il
 luminate alternative forms of power than those conventionally studied in I
 nternational Relations.  A critical issue of international concern followi
 ng on from the Paris peace settlement was League oversight of the Minoriti
 es Treaties signed by the succession states of Central and Eastern Europe.
  A study of WILPF's transnational advocacy on the minorities question eluc
 idates relationships between publicness\, power and legitimacy in internat
 ional relations as well as possibility within the League of Nations for op
 ening out roles for women in the affairs of states on the cusp of women's 
 enfranchisement.  This paper examines how WILPF\, a marginalized actor as 
 a woman's international peace organization\, leveraged power and influence
 d policy outcomes through holding the League of Nations to account on the 
 principle of publicness it professed for its management of international r
 elations. In the rhetoric and action of WILPF\, publicness was shaped into
  a radical form of democratic intent that challenged this new organization
  of sovereign states to make matters of international concern\, the League
  of Nations' purview\, into ones of human concern.\n\nThe paper takes an h
 istorical approach and will define the conceptual tools of international p
 ublics and publicness used to frame the empirical evidence discussed. The 
 structure and aims of WILPF as an organization\, its activity to influence
  the League Council\, Assembly and Secretariat will be assessed\, as will 
 its own programmatic activity to fill gaps in League minorities policy ide
 ntified by the WILPF\, which it believed itself to be uniquely positioned 
 to act upon. Conclusions will be drawn as to the nature and effectiveness 
 of WILPF as a transnational actor\, identifying what influence\, if any\, 
 WILPF's trading in the norm of publicness garnered in either the talk foru
 m of the League\, in the lobbying of national governments or working with 
 like-minded private international organization in relation to the complex 
 interwar minorities issues across Europe.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 138 Alison Richard Building
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