ABSTRACT
The League of Nations and the United Nations both embodied the idea that, despite the sovereign state, humankind was one—that the globe itself needed to be considered as one. The family of UN agencies testified to the extent to which problems needed to be tackled globally. In the 1970s, this old idea began to be reinforced, as a flood of books and articles argued that many issues could no longer be attacked within the purview of national politics but needed urgent global attention. *
