Author Archives: Negar Mansouri

About Negar Mansouri

Negar Mansouri holds a bachelor of laws from Imam Khomeini International University (Qazvin, Iran), two master’s degrees in international law from Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, Iran), and the Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, and a PhD in international law from the same institution. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Copenhagen Business School.

“Third Worlding” International Organization: The Parallel Quests of Santa-Cruz and Aga Khan for a New International Institutional Order (1946–2002)

The literature on the history of international organization tends to highlight the dominant role of European internationalists and their (arguably) secular cosmopolitan visions in the life and functioning of these institutions. Conversely, in our contribution, we trace the parallel trajectories of two path-breaking figures in the United Nations (UN) with affinities with the Global South and between the 1950s and 1990s: Hernán Santa-Cruz and Sadruddin Aga Khan. In the tense international (dis)order of the Cold War, they both relied on a combination of Third Worldist Continue reading → Continue reading →