Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century

Prof. Dr. Boris Barth is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Charles University, Prague. He has published monographs and many articles on financial imperialism, the stab-in-the-back legend, genocide, and on the crisis of the European democracies in the inter-war years.Rolf Hobson is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and the University of Bergen. He has published studies of modern European political history, war and society and German military history.

• Notes on ContributorsCivilizing Missions from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, or from Uplifting to DemocratizationBoris Barth and Rolf HobsonThe Cultural Transformation of America’s Civilizing Mission in the Twentieth CenturyFrank NinkovichNation-Building, Concepts of Space and Civilizing Mission in the Early Second Republic of PolandBianka Pietrow-EnnkerAmbiguities of the Domestic Civilizing Mission: Technocratic Elites and Social Engineering in Interwar EuropeBoris BarthLilliputians for Peace: Scandinavian Internationalism and International Disarmament c. 1880–1940Karen Gram-SkjoldagerQuestioning the Civilizing Mission: Humanitarianism and the Arab World in the 20th CenturyEsther MoellerThe Democratic Peace Controversy in Retrospect as a “Civilizing Mission”? a Theory RevisitedJost DülfferAmerican Nationalism and Regime Change: How the Neocons Tried to Speed Up the InevitableRolf HobsonEpilogue: from Civilizing Missions to the Defence of CivilityJürgen OsterhammelIndex