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Conducting diplomacy for the League: the missions of Secretariat officials Cover

Conducting diplomacy for the League: the missions of Secretariat officials

By: Pelle van Dijk  
Open Access
|Nov 2024

Abstract

Throughout the interwar period, officials of the League of Nations Secretariat travelled across the world to conduct activities for the international organization. Building on the emerging literature on the work of the first generation of international civil servants, this article will show how these missions became an integral part of the work of the League’s Information Section to conduct a form of diplomacy, and bring the work of the League in the public eye. In the reports they wrote, officials tried to capture the state of public opinion on the League and described what they did to improve it.

Language: English
Page range: 52 - 66
Published on: Nov 12, 2024
Published by: University of Vienna
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Pelle van Dijk, published by University of Vienna
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.