DANIEL HUCKER daniel.hucker@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’
Hucker, Daniel
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Abstract
Between 1895 and 1916, a Conference on International Arbitration met annually at Lake Mohonk, New York, seeking to implement arbitration as a substitute for war. This article considers the aims, effects, and limitations of these conferences, including the problematic assumptions underpinning their apparent progressivism. The belief that an enlightened public opinion would play a decisive role in advancing arbitration will be interrogated, as will the conviction that the Mohonk group provided a mouthpiece for an emergent ‘international mind.’ The article shows how these conferences evoked a ‘global’ public opinion that was simultaneously (and paradoxically) expansive, exclusionary, forcible, and manipulable. It reveals too how American conceptions of internationalism took shape, anticipating aspects of Wilsonianism.
Citation
Hucker, D. (2024). The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’. Journal of American Studies, 58(1), 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000324
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 13, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 30, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2024-02 |
Deposit Date | Jun 24, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 25, 2024 |
Print ISSN | 0021-8758 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-5154 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 58 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 39-66 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000324 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/22177079 |
Publisher URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/lake-mohonk-conferences-on-international-arbitration-18951916-evoking-and-mobilizing-an-international-mind/F69BC4B29102B323F2439AA7C0204F6C |
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