ABSTRACT Assessing attempts to revive Belgian-British colonial exchanges in the late 1920s and early 1930s, this paper suggests a refined understanding of the crisis of empire, not so much as a crisis of individual empires (as was the case in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe), but as a crisis of inter-imperial relations and of an underlying imperial order. This becomes apparent when contrasting developments in and between colonies with inter-imperial initiatives in the metropole, thus giving more prominence to the colonial perspective than has hitherto been done in the historiography on the link between imperialism and internationalisation. Although the colonial administration was actually strengthened in the 1920s, marking this period as the heyday of colonialism, and even though the new international order was still heavily influenced by imperial member-states, we observe a growing disconnect between empire and colonies, which becomes manifest in direct inter-colonial exchanges, bypassing imperial channels, and increasingly based on topical issues tackled by experts. In other words, we see a shift from an imperial order to inter-colonial technical cooperation, largely in line with the development of transnational expertise on the international level in the same period.

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在帝国危机期间重塑国际殖民主义：1920 年代至 1930 年代间帝国主义与殖民间技术合作之间的比利时-英国殖民交流

摘要 本文通过评估 1920 年代末和 1930 年代初恢复比英殖民交流的尝试，提出了对帝国危机的精炼理解，而不是单个帝国的危机（就像在中部、东部和南部的情况一样）。 -东欧），但作为帝国间关系和潜在帝国秩序的危机。当将殖民地内部和之间的发展与大都市中的帝国间倡议进行对比时，这一点变得明显，从而使殖民视角比迄今为止关于帝国主义与国际化之间联系的历史编纂更加突出。虽然殖民管理实际上在 1920 年代得到加强，标志着这一时期是殖民主义的全盛期，尽管新的国际秩序仍然受到帝国成员国的严重影响，但我们观察到帝国与殖民地之间的脱节越来越严重，这表现在直接的殖民地间交流，绕过帝国渠道，越来越多地基于专家解决的热点问题. 换句话说，我们看到了从帝国秩序到殖民地间技术合作的转变，这在很大程度上与同期国际层面跨国专业知识的发展相一致。