Description du projet
Une vue d’ensemble de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
La Seconde Guerre mondiale était une guerre mondiale. Plus de 100 millions de personnes originaires de 30 pays y ont pris part, livrant bataille sur les continents africain, asiatique et européen, ainsi qu’en pleine mer. Des sociétés entières ont participé à l’effort de guerre, comme soldats ou travailleurs. La victoire des puissances alliées aurait été impossible sans une coordination, une organisation et une planification étroites. Nos connaissances sur cette organisation extraordinaire sont toutefois limitées. Le projet INTERALLIED, financé par l’UE, apportera un éclairage sur la manière dont les Alliés sont parvenus à mobiliser les marchés mondiaux pour la guerre entre 1939 et 1945. Il dressera l’état des lieux de l’économie politique de la guerre mondiale des Alliés et décrira l’histoire de l’économie mondiale en guerre.
Objectif
In the Second World War, the Allies waged war on a truly global scale for the first and, one hopes, last time in history. Victory required the
mobilisation and transportation of wo/men and materiel on all continents and across four out of the Earth’s five oceans. Success would have been impossible without extensive inter-Allied coordination, organisation and planning. Starting in 1939, a system of inter-Allied organs was set up by Britain and France, whose mission it was to coordinate the supply of the Allied war effort from a common pool. It survived France’s fall in 1940 and, upon US entry in 1941, was revived. By 1942, it had evolved into a global network of military, production and logistics experts from India to Canada and South Africa to Norway, organised into a series of so-called Combined Boards and dedicated to the nuts and bolts of worldwide coalition warfare. Yet we lack a history of this extraordinary organisation. Despite the Second World War’s self-evidently global nature, the tendency to frame it in national, comparative and Eurocentric terms is very deeply entrenched. INTERALLIED, by contrast, seeks to highlight the global, transnational and interdependent character of the Allied war effort. The project asks: how did the Allies seek to couple, then uncouple their war economies, and mobilise (then demobilise) global markets for war, between 1939 and 1945? It seeks (1) to provide an account of the political economy of global Allied warfare, and thus to reach for a history of the global economy at war, which has yet to be written; (2) to advance a recent 'global turn' in Second World War studies, and thus to resist nationalistic and Eurocentric readings of the conflict, frequently deployed politically today; and (3) to produce new, practical knowledge about how societies can cope with massive shocks to their systems of supply, production and trade, and prevent damaging and wasteful competition for scarce resources.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
75341 Paris
France