Or Rosenboim
I am an Associate Professor of History at the University of Bologna. Previously, I was Junior Research Fellow at Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
I completed my PhD in Politics and international Studies at the University of Cambridge (2014). I hold a BA in Modern History from the University of Bologna (summa cum laude 2009) and a Master's degree in Imperial History from the University of Oxford (distinction, 2010).
I am generally interested in 20th Century History of Political Thought.
My book, The Emergence of Globalism, is out with Princeton University Press (2017).
My previous studies focused on the history of theories of internationalism and imperialism in British interwar liberal thought, and on the history of cosmopolitan political theory.
Supervisors: Dr. Duncan Bell and Prof Peter Mandler
Address: orrosenboim.com
I completed my PhD in Politics and international Studies at the University of Cambridge (2014). I hold a BA in Modern History from the University of Bologna (summa cum laude 2009) and a Master's degree in Imperial History from the University of Oxford (distinction, 2010).
I am generally interested in 20th Century History of Political Thought.
My book, The Emergence of Globalism, is out with Princeton University Press (2017).
My previous studies focused on the history of theories of internationalism and imperialism in British interwar liberal thought, and on the history of cosmopolitan political theory.
Supervisors: Dr. Duncan Bell and Prof Peter Mandler
Address: orrosenboim.com
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Il saggio mira in primo luogo a mettere in discussione la presunta continuità che le tradizioni del realismo e della geopolitica rivendicano rispetto alla loro vicenda storica in Italia. Tale narrativa infatti dona coerenza a una traiettoria accidentata e discontinua, che passa anche per una fase di amnesia che coincide con la guerra fredda. In secondo luogo, il saggio vuole dimostrare che il recupero di entrambe le tradizioni avvenne solo grazie all’intraprendenza di alcuni intellettuali, come Pier Paolo Portinaro, Gianfranco Miglio e Carlo Galli e, in seguito, grazie a una inaspettata e all’apparenza marginale convergenza tra esponenti del pensiero marxista e intellettuali conservatori. A questa seguì la progressiva normalizzazione del pensiero geopolitico e il recupero trionfale del realismo durante dagli anni novanta, in assenza di una vera e propria riflessione critica rispetto a questi nuovi (e antichi) orientamenti. In ultima istanza, il saggio vuole interrogarsi da un lato sullo scollamento temporale con il quale questi quadri concettuali si affermano e sviluppano in Italia; dall’altro, sul nesso tra idee e politica, riflettendo su come, da un lato, l’economia del potere in Italia durante la guerra fredda e, dall’altro, l’iniziativa dei singoli abbiano inciso sul mondo intellettuale e accademico e su quale sia l’eredità di questa fase storica per il tempo corrente.
of international relations in the United States. The paper assesses the thought of
Owen Lattimore, a leading American sinologist and political adviser to F. D. Roosevelt
and Chiang Kai-shek, and Nicholas John Spykman, an influential internationalrelations
scholar at Yale. In the framework of the Second World War and the
“air age”, they envisaged a tripolar world order that entailed a new conception
of political space and international relations. Lattimore’s global geopolitical order
sought to replace imperialism with democracy, while Spykman employed geopolitical
concepts to envisage a tripolar order of “balanced powers” which built upon—rather
than rejected—existing imperial structures. This paper examines their international
theories and the policy implications of their thought to claim that 1940s theoretical
interdisciplinarity made an important contribution to the development of the discipline
of international relations in the United States.
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Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought, Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war and expatriation in the 1940s and how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy, geopolitics, economics, imperial thought, constitutional law, theology, and philosophy of science. She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron, Owen Lattimore, Lionel Robbins, Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Curtis, Richard McKeon, Michael Polanyi, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. G. Wells, and others. Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand and an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other.
An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world, The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal and its origins.
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Il saggio mira in primo luogo a mettere in discussione la presunta continuità che le tradizioni del realismo e della geopolitica rivendicano rispetto alla loro vicenda storica in Italia. Tale narrativa infatti dona coerenza a una traiettoria accidentata e discontinua, che passa anche per una fase di amnesia che coincide con la guerra fredda. In secondo luogo, il saggio vuole dimostrare che il recupero di entrambe le tradizioni avvenne solo grazie all’intraprendenza di alcuni intellettuali, come Pier Paolo Portinaro, Gianfranco Miglio e Carlo Galli e, in seguito, grazie a una inaspettata e all’apparenza marginale convergenza tra esponenti del pensiero marxista e intellettuali conservatori. A questa seguì la progressiva normalizzazione del pensiero geopolitico e il recupero trionfale del realismo durante dagli anni novanta, in assenza di una vera e propria riflessione critica rispetto a questi nuovi (e antichi) orientamenti. In ultima istanza, il saggio vuole interrogarsi da un lato sullo scollamento temporale con il quale questi quadri concettuali si affermano e sviluppano in Italia; dall’altro, sul nesso tra idee e politica, riflettendo su come, da un lato, l’economia del potere in Italia durante la guerra fredda e, dall’altro, l’iniziativa dei singoli abbiano inciso sul mondo intellettuale e accademico e su quale sia l’eredità di questa fase storica per il tempo corrente.
of international relations in the United States. The paper assesses the thought of
Owen Lattimore, a leading American sinologist and political adviser to F. D. Roosevelt
and Chiang Kai-shek, and Nicholas John Spykman, an influential internationalrelations
scholar at Yale. In the framework of the Second World War and the
“air age”, they envisaged a tripolar world order that entailed a new conception
of political space and international relations. Lattimore’s global geopolitical order
sought to replace imperialism with democracy, while Spykman employed geopolitical
concepts to envisage a tripolar order of “balanced powers” which built upon—rather
than rejected—existing imperial structures. This paper examines their international
theories and the policy implications of their thought to claim that 1940s theoretical
interdisciplinarity made an important contribution to the development of the discipline
of international relations in the United States.
Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought, Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war and expatriation in the 1940s and how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy, geopolitics, economics, imperial thought, constitutional law, theology, and philosophy of science. She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron, Owen Lattimore, Lionel Robbins, Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Curtis, Richard McKeon, Michael Polanyi, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. G. Wells, and others. Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand and an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other.
An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world, The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal and its origins.