Category Archives: Nonprofits and Historical Research

Early Amnesty International and the Art of Foreign Relations
Nonprofits and Historical Research

Early Amnesty International and the Art of Foreign Relations

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Editors’ Note: This post, from Swati Srivastava, is adapted from her article, “Navigating NGO-Government Relations in Human Rights: New Archival Evidence from Amnesty International, 1961-1986,” recently published in International Studies Quarterly. In 1961, when Amnesty International was founded, it entered a daunting international landscape for human rights. After World War II, the international community passed … Continue reading →

Berggruen’s Nils Gilman on a Historian’s Orientation in the Nonprofit World
Nonprofits and Historical Research

Berggruen’s Nils Gilman on a Historian’s Orientation in the Nonprofit World

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Editors’ Note: The following is an interview between HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey and the Berggruen Institute’s Vice President of Programs, Nils Gilman, which took place over email this week. An intellectual historian by training and author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004), Gilman discusses how his orientation as a historian has shaped … Continue reading →