The possibilities of transnational activism: the campaign by Thomas Richard Davies

By Thomas Richard Davies

An remarkable learn of 1 of the main sizeable overseas non-governmental campaigns ever to were undertaken - the crusade for disarmament among the 2 international Wars - which forces us to reassess lots of our assumptions approximately transnational civil society.

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24 Hedley Bull, ‘International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach,’ World Politics, 18 (1966), p. 361. 18 chapter two activist pressure. ’25 The focus on impact upon government action and policy has been chosen because governments were the main actors targeted by the interwar disarmament activists. 26 This research has an important advantage over that on contemporary transnational activism in that all the necessary primary sources are open for consultation. 27 Since this book adopts the classical method, judgement has been used in order to determine whether or not references in the primary sources to the role of activism in inÁuencing outcomes are reliable.

17 See Andrew D. White’s Autobiography, vol. 2 (London, 1905), p. 285, cited in Tate, Disarmament Illusion, p. 214. 19 Despite securing the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration, the First Hague Conference failed to achieve any agreement on the limitation of armaments and merely referred the issue to governments for further study. 20 ConÁicts in the Far East and South Africa following the First Hague Conference failed to prevent the peace movement from continuing to promote disarmament.

4. 11 White and Zocca, International Non-Governmental Organizations, p. 4. ), Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse, NY, 1997), p. 21). 9 32 chapter three This organisation was international from its foundation in 1855, with member associations from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, Scotland, Switzerland and the United States. It was joined in 1864 by the First Socialist International, in 1883 by the World Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and in 1888 by the International Council of Women.

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