| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Akira Iriye. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 246. $29.95.

This book examines the development of international organizations—nongovernmental and governmental—from the late nineteenth century to the present. Written by the distinguished historian Akira Iriye, the book employs a fairly narrow definition of a nongovernmental organization (NGO): "a voluntary nonstate, nonprofit, nonreligious, and nonmilitary association" (p. 2). As a result, some major organizations do not fall within its purview. These include international religious bodies (except when their activities are secular) and multinational corporations. Nevertheless, Iriye has left himself plenty of ground to cover. Although, as he points out, only five international NGOs were in existence in 1850, thereafter they grew rapidly in number until, today, there are almost 30,000. These groups range from the International Red Cross, the International Council of Women, and the World's YWCA in the nineteenth century to their more recent counterparts like Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace. The governmental bodies include the agencies of the League of Nations and of the United Nations as well as the Fulbright program. Iriye focuses particularly on organizations committed to humanitarian relief, development aid, peace and disarmament, cultural exchanges, human rights, and environmental protection. . . .

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