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The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for its third v... more The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for its third volume, dedicated to the history of international organizations and their role in global development.
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1... more The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1946 to rescue mothers and children in Europe and Asia after the World War II. From the beginning it contributed to enhance the protection of motherhood and childhood within the UN political agenda and the policies of the recipient countries. In Europe, it acted at first as a humanitarian agency and then it started technical assistance programmes, urging states to build efficient welfare systems. After the emergency on the continent had ended, it shifted its interests towards Third World, thus helping to connect child welfare with economic/social development of less developed countries. In that context, UNICEF applied some successful European experiences. Italy, which was initially beneficiary of the Fund’s programs and then member of the organization, was one of the most meaningful model
This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin o... more This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin of UNICEF after the Second World War to the First UN Development Decade. Starting from the legacies of the interwar period, it will consider the UNICEF contribution to Europe and Asia in the period of reconstruction, then analyze the shift it experienced in its focus on developing countries from the 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The final part of the paper will be devoted to the case of Italy, the second largest recipient country of UNICEF aid in Europe, as a test case of UNICEF's action to spread a new vision of child welfare in Europe and, later, as a feasible experience to be used in the developing world.
Journal of World History 32, no. 3 (2021): 405-438. , 2021
This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin o... more This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin of UNICEF after the Second World War to the First UN Development Decade. Starting from the legacies of the interwar period, it will consider the UNICEF contribution to Europe and Asia in the period of reconstruction, then analyze the shift it experienced in its focus on developing countries from the 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The final part of the paper will be devoted to the case of Italy, the second largest recipient country of UNICEF aid in Europe, as a test case of UNICEF's action to spread a new vision of child welfare in Europe and, later, as a feasible experience to be used in the developing world.
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Contributions of Bertrand Taithe... more ALL ARTICLES ARE OPEN ACCESS: http://www.histoire-politique.fr/
Contributions of Bertrand Taithe, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Eleanor Davey, Angela Villani, Juliette Dumont, Yi-Tang Lin, José Pedro Monteiro, Lucile Dreidemy, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Damiano Matasci
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1... more The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1946 to rescue mothers and children in Europe and Asia after the World War II. From the beginning it contributed to enhance the protection of motherhood and childhood within the UN political agenda and the policies of the recipient countries. In Europe, it acted at first as a humanitarian agency and then it started technical assistance programmes, urging states to build efficient welfare systems. After the emergency on the continent had ended, it shifted its interests towards Third World, thus helping to connect child welfare with economic/social development of less developed countries. In that context, UNICEF applied some successful European experiences. Italy, which was initially beneficiary of the Fund's programs and then member of the organization, was one of the most meaningful model.
The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for its third v... more The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for its third volume, dedicated to the history of international organizations and their role in global development.
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1... more The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1946 to rescue mothers and children in Europe and Asia after the World War II. From the beginning it contributed to enhance the protection of motherhood and childhood within the UN political agenda and the policies of the recipient countries. In Europe, it acted at first as a humanitarian agency and then it started technical assistance programmes, urging states to build efficient welfare systems. After the emergency on the continent had ended, it shifted its interests towards Third World, thus helping to connect child welfare with economic/social development of less developed countries. In that context, UNICEF applied some successful European experiences. Italy, which was initially beneficiary of the Fund’s programs and then member of the organization, was one of the most meaningful model
This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin o... more This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin of UNICEF after the Second World War to the First UN Development Decade. Starting from the legacies of the interwar period, it will consider the UNICEF contribution to Europe and Asia in the period of reconstruction, then analyze the shift it experienced in its focus on developing countries from the 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The final part of the paper will be devoted to the case of Italy, the second largest recipient country of UNICEF aid in Europe, as a test case of UNICEF's action to spread a new vision of child welfare in Europe and, later, as a feasible experience to be used in the developing world.
Journal of World History 32, no. 3 (2021): 405-438. , 2021
This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin o... more This paper aims at analyzing the UNICEF contribution to the development debate, from the origin of UNICEF after the Second World War to the First UN Development Decade. Starting from the legacies of the interwar period, it will consider the UNICEF contribution to Europe and Asia in the period of reconstruction, then analyze the shift it experienced in its focus on developing countries from the 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The final part of the paper will be devoted to the case of Italy, the second largest recipient country of UNICEF aid in Europe, as a test case of UNICEF's action to spread a new vision of child welfare in Europe and, later, as a feasible experience to be used in the developing world.
ALL ARTICLES ARE OPEN ACCESS: http://www.histoire-politique.fr/
Contributions of Bertrand Taithe... more ALL ARTICLES ARE OPEN ACCESS: http://www.histoire-politique.fr/
Contributions of Bertrand Taithe, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Eleanor Davey, Angela Villani, Juliette Dumont, Yi-Tang Lin, José Pedro Monteiro, Lucile Dreidemy, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Damiano Matasci
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1... more The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established in December 1946 to rescue mothers and children in Europe and Asia after the World War II. From the beginning it contributed to enhance the protection of motherhood and childhood within the UN political agenda and the policies of the recipient countries. In Europe, it acted at first as a humanitarian agency and then it started technical assistance programmes, urging states to build efficient welfare systems. After the emergency on the continent had ended, it shifted its interests towards Third World, thus helping to connect child welfare with economic/social development of less developed countries. In that context, UNICEF applied some successful European experiences. Italy, which was initially beneficiary of the Fund's programs and then member of the organization, was one of the most meaningful model.
The contribution of Gaetano Martino to the Assembly of Strasbourg (1958-1966) The work of Gaetano... more The contribution of Gaetano Martino to the Assembly of Strasbourg (1958-1966) The work of Gaetano Martino is well known to historians mainly for the role that he, as Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, played between 1954 and 1957 to relaunch the process of European integration. One of the less known aspects of his activity concerns the contribution made to the European Parliament's activity, the statesman was member of between 1958 and 1967 and President from 1962 and 1964. As protector of the " spirit of Messina " , which, in his opinion, represented a warning to the government of member States for the realization of a political Europe, he played and intense and passionate activity in Strasbourg Assembly; and even if he belonged to a minority group as the liberal one was, he brought to complete maturation his Europeanism, aiming at a federated and democratic Europe and at the rise of a widespread 'European consciousness'. His commitment focused on two main aspects: the first one, at a political-institutional level, dealt with the election of the European Parliamentary Assembly by universal suffrage and with the attribution of greater powers to that organ; the second one, at a cultural level, concerned the institution of a European university. Both were part of the wider objective of gradual and progressive realization of the European political unity, through the complete implementation of the treaties of Rome. In this path, Martino assigned to the European Parliament, in a balanced relationship among the European institutions, a primary role.
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Contributions of Bertrand Taithe, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Eleanor Davey, Angela Villani, Juliette Dumont, Yi-Tang Lin, José Pedro Monteiro, Lucile Dreidemy, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Damiano Matasci
Contributions of Bertrand Taithe, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Eleanor Davey, Angela Villani, Juliette Dumont, Yi-Tang Lin, José Pedro Monteiro, Lucile Dreidemy, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Damiano Matasci