2014
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210514000114
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An alternative mode of international order: The international administrative union in the nineteenth century

Abstract: A novel form of international order was developed in the nineteenth century by international administrative unions such as the International Telegraph Union and the Universal Postal Union. This administrative internationalism posed a striking alternative to the international society of great powers, sovereignty, and forms of imperial domination, for the members of administrative unions included not only sovereign states but also semi-sovereigns, vassals, and colonies. Members were equal and bound identically t… Show more

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“…As Howland (2015) notes the ITU, although a Treaty organization, did not restrict membership to sovereign nations. It was an association of governments with telegraph systems.…”
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“…As Howland (2015) notes the ITU, although a Treaty organization, did not restrict membership to sovereign nations. It was an association of governments with telegraph systems.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, the rules are part of an emerging system of institutions creating an international order. The Unions were regarded as innovations in international coordination but the international relations literature has largely discounted them as a distinct form of international order (Howland, 2015). The development of transnational regulatory bodies in finance and accounting based on professional expertise suggests that these organizations deserve further analysis as the origin of a system of epistemic international order.…”
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“…International unions of the 19th century, such as the ISC, began to constitute an international order that, like the networks of global governance evolving in recent decades, reveals a diversity among the units of an international system. Both of these represent an inclusive international order unlike that of the 20th century, in which sovereign states were dominant (Howland, 2015). The current research of scholars such as Anne-Marie Slaughter (2004) or Benedict Kingsbury and colleagues (2005) reveals the extent to which multinational corporations, NGOs, and a variety of private organizations not only work alongside sovereign states today in a networked global order but begin to displace them.…”
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