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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goeschel, Christian

Titel

Performing the New Order: The Tripartite Pact, 1940–1945

Ist Teil von

• Contemporary European history, 2024-05, Vol.33 (2), p.411-427

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The tripartite pact, concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan in 1940, sought to create a new global order. This article is part of a broader shift in scholarship, inspired by global and cultural history. Instead of revisiting the decision-making that led to the pact's conclusion, this article explores the pact through the dialectics of culture and power. Through an archive-based interpretation of the pact's signing and the celebrations of its anniversaries from 1941 until 1945 that involved ordinary people in Axis-dominated territories around the world, the central mechanisms of this global fascist alliance become clear. A performative diplomacy of power and unity held the alliance together. Style and substance were not mutually exclusive categories of tripartite politics; instead, ‘real’ and representational politics shaped each other. The pact was a concerted attempt by the three signatories to transform global political structures and supersede the purported global hegemony of the liberal democracies.