Plowshares into Swords

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"David Ekbladh focuses on the economic analyses pioneered by the League of Nations in Geneva and how, after the League's demise, they came to be developed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In an era when information did not flow as freely as today, who specifically abetted this move and why? This transplantation came amid a growing consciousness about the global economy and its centrality to worldwide political stability. Information and analysis were becoming crucial currencies in the creation and sustenance of a modern, liberal global order, requiring the cooperation of people across an interconnected international society that the United States sought increasingly to shape"--