The Walter Lippmann Colloquium grew directly from prewar League of Nations intellectual cooperation
Evidence
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium bore both resemblances and concrete connections to the International Studies Conferences developed by the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC), established in January 1922, and the IIIC, established in Paris in 1926 as the ICIC’s executive branch. From 1931 onward, ISC study groups worked on a chosen topic over a cycle of two years. The chosen study cycles were: “The State and Economic Life” (1932–33), “Collective Security” (34–35), “Peaceful Change” (36–37) and “Economic Policies in Relation to World Peace” (38–39). At the 1939 meeting in Bergen, held at the precise time that Nazi Germany invaded Poland, “International Organization” was the theme agreed upon for the 1940–41 cycle. The WLC was also planned originally to initiate a larger, international conference on the same topic in 1939. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 368
Categorization
- XREF: Links the neoliberal origin story to the League of Nations’ ICIC infrastructure — relevant to Quinn Slobodian’s broader argument in this volume about globalist institutions. — connects to: Neoliberals rejected European integration because the League’s voluntary model had already failed — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 604; Early neoliberalism grew out of League of Nations institutional networks — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 403; Early neoliberalism’s core ideas emerged inside League of Nations institutions. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 366 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Early neoliberalism grew out of League of Nations institutional networks
#expands(0.95) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 403 - Early neoliberalism’s core ideas emerged inside League of Nations institutions.
#expands(0.95) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 366 - The League and Rockefeller Foundation institutional scaffolding shaped the 1938 WLC
#expands(0.95) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 372 - Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League
#expands(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376 - League of Nations fostered an early global social science network ahead of neoliberalism.
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 29