Research
Project Publications
The project team is planning a range of publications as part of its activities for GLO. These include individual articles, a special issue on historical attempts at global governance reform as well as a co-authored monograph. We will update this page with publication news.
January 2026: Sophie Scott-Brown’s article on “Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco-to-Moscow March, 1960–61” has been published in vol. 111, no. 394 of History: The Journal of the Historical Association.
February 2026: The British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have published “Grassroots Diplomacy in the Face of Global Disorder: Historical Perspectives”, a discussion paper co-authored by Daniel Laqua and Sophie Scott-Brown.
February 2026: an advance access version of Sophie Scott-Brown’s article “Theatre, Shadow Theatre, and Counter Theatre:
The Sahara Anti-Nuclear Protest and the United Nations, 1959-1960″ is now available online (open access). The article forms part of a planned special issue that members of the GLO team are guest-editing for the International History Review.
April 2026: Gordon Barrett’s article on “The Varying Visibility of Lu Gwei-djen and Dorothy Moyle Needham in Anglo-Chinese Scientific Relations, 1944–1972” has been published in vol. 2, no. 2 of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. An open access version is available via the institutional repository at Northumbria University.
June 2026: an Early View version of Nivedita Joon’s article “A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976” is available online (open access).
Past Publications
Our team members have published widely on the subjects relating to this project. Here is an indicative list of relevant books written or (co-)edited by them before the project start.
International Organizations and Aspects of Global Governance
Barrett, Gordon, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Biltoft, Carolyn, A Violent Peace: Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019).
Gorman, Daniel, The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012; pb. 2014).
Gorman, Daniel, International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury, 2017; pb. 2019).
Gorman, Daniel, Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Gorman, Daniel (ed., with Martin Gutmann), Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
Laqua, Daniel, The Age of Internationalism and Belgium, 1880–1930: Peace, Progress and Prestige (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013; pb. 2015).
Laqua, Daniel (ed., with Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen), International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations (London: Bloomsbury, 2019; pb. 2020).
Laqua, Daniel (ed.), Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements between the World Wars (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011; pb. 2020).
Laqua, Daniel (ed., with Martin Grandjean), Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations: Shaping Cultural and Political Relations (Geneva: United Nations, 2025).
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s–1950s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025).
Richard, Anne-Isabelle (ed., with René Koekkoek, and Arthur Weststeijn), The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600–2000 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Democracy, Civil Society and Activism
Huzzey, Richard, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).
Huzzey, Richard (ed.), Pressure and Parliament: From Civil War to Civil Society (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2018).
Huzzey, Richard and Henry Miller (eds, with Maartje Janse, Joris Oddens and Broddie Waddell), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
Laqua, Daniel, Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
Miller, Henry, A Nation of Petitioners: Petitioners and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
Scott-Brown, Sophie, Colin War and the Art of Everyday Anarchy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Scott-Brown, Sophie, The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025).
Stokes, Susan, Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
Stokes, Susan, Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Stokes, Susan, The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025).
Stokes, Susan (with Matthew Cleary), Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: The Politics of Trust in Argentina and Mexico (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).
Stokes, Susan (with Erdem Aytaç, Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Stokes, Susan (ed., with Adam Przeworski and Bernard Manin), Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
