Abstract

International law “moved to institutions” in the early twentieth century. While recent literature has explored the intellectual trajectories of these international organisations, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of the “buildings, staffs, and letterheads.” Conversely, I put the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of interwar internationalism—and its echoes throughout the century. Erected in 1926 to serve the International Labour Organisation, this building was repurposed to host the World Trade Organisation in 1975. In this article, I reconstruct how struggles over claims of the (in)dignity of international order can be explored through disputes related to the political economy, material culture, and architecture of this infrastructure of global governance.

摘要

国际法在二十世纪初“转向制度”。虽然最近的文献探讨了这些国际组织的知识轨迹，但大多数报道都将他们的分析与“建筑物、员工和信头”看似平庸的历史分开。相反，我将威廉·拉帕德中心的空间性置于两次世界大战期间国际主义历史的最前沿，及其在整个世纪的回响。这座建筑于 1926 年建成，为国际劳工组织服务，并于 1975 年被改建为世界贸易组织所在地。在本文中，我重构了如何通过与政治经济、物质文化和全球治理基础设施架构相关的争议来探讨有关国际秩序（不）尊严的主张的斗争。