Interference between Eurocentrism and global governance cover a blind spot in scholarly research

Non-Western international organizations cover an academic void

Historical reactions of international organizations to crises and war help us to understand their peacekeeping functions in the 21st century

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Introduction.- Towards a Global History of International Organization.- Part 1: Constructing the Memory of International Organizations.- From the League of Nations to the United Nations: The Continuing Preservation and Development of the Geneva Archives.- Matsuoka Yosuke's Miscalculation at Geneva: A Possible Reconsideration Using JACAR Data.- Part 2: Eurocentrism and Science Policy.- On the Concept of International Organization: Centralization, Hegemonism and Constitutionalism.- Activities and Discourses on International Cultural Relations in Modern Japan: The Making of KBS (Kokusai Bunka Shinko Kai), 1934-53.- International Control of Epidemic Diseases from a Historical and Cultural Perspective.- Part 3: International Organization as a Forum: Turning Local Concerns into Global Issues.- Sino-Japanese Controversies over the Textbook Problem and the League of Nations.- Beyond Empires' Science: Inter-Imperial Pacific Science Network in the 1920s.- Networking through the Y: The Role of YMCA in China's Search for New National Identity and Internationalization.- Part 4: Culture and Standardization: The Multifunctional and Contradictory Use of International Organizations.- Global Governance: From Organizations to Networks or Not?.- New Capitalism, UNESCO and the Re-enchantment of Culture.- Popular Culture and International Cooperation in the 1930s/CIAP and the League of Nations.- Avenues and Confines of Globalizing the Past: UNESCO's International Commission for a "Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind" (1952-1969).