ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the foundational role played by international institutions in the “global interwar.” The interwar years were witness to institutional innovation and growth that expanded the space of international politics, and also longer-term continuities across the early twentieth century reinforced prevailing international hierarchies. The chapter first surveys the main types of interwar international institutions to demonstrate how their activities expanded in type and geographical scope. Second, it assesses the ideas and public administrative innovations that characterized international institutions in the 1920s and 1930s. Third, it examines the spatial dynamics of interwar international institutions to show how they were both exclusive and inclusive fora.
