Building States by Eva-Maria Muschik - 9780231200257

Building StatesThe United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 19451965\nAuthor(s): Eva-Maria Muschik\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231200257, 978-0231200257\nSynopsis\nPostwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States investigates how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960sand helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process.\n\nEva-Maria Muschik argues that the UN played a key role in the global proliferation and reinvention of the nation-state in the postwar era, as newly independent states came to rely on international assistance. Drawing on previously untapped primary sources, she trac.