Who negotiated the international order in the first half of the 20th century?

A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025

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As part of a literature review of monographs that, in one way or other, deal with the negotiation of the international order in the first half of the 20th century, I was keen to see which persons the authors of five selected books considered worth mentioning for their specific topics.

This interactive visualisation shows the names of people listed in the indices of the selected books.* Each circle represents a person. The color encodes the gender of the person. The user can use filters to highlight people who appear in multiple books. Tooltips provide further information.

The selected books are:

• Clavin, Patricia (2013). Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946.Oxford : Oxford University Press.

• Martin, Jamie (2022). The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Mazower, Mark (2009). No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Slobodian, Quinn (2013). Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalismm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Sluga, Glenda (2013). Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Open the viz: https://sabine-selchow.github.io/indices.html

*The indices might not list every person mentioned throughout the books.